Hour of Code, Apple's annual coding session events held at its retail stores around the world, is returning for the sixth year beginning Saturday, December 1, the company announced today.
Apple Stores to run free coding sessions December 1-14
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China’s own $9 billion navigation system to provide global coverage by 2020
China continues launching satellites that make up its own celestial navigation system worth at least $9 billion. Called Beidou, it's an alternative to American-ran Global Positioning System (originally Navstar GPS) which is also known as the GPS and controlled by the U.S. Air Force.
Global luxury group Kering working with Apple on apps for sales associates
International luxury group Kering announced in a press release Monday it's working with Apple on a suite of apps for its in-store staff and sales associates to scan inventories and more.
Shortcuts Focus: creating a folder for your shortcuts
With iOS 12's Shortcuts app, power users can easily automate repetitive tasks by chaining multiple actions together. Your shortcuts are managed and organized in the Shortcuts app, but displaying them to the user as a list via another shortcut is quite challenging. This is where Easy Folder comes into play. This awesome shortcut, create by Reddit user “e10withadot,” acts as a virtual folder to which you can add any number of shortcuts, then easily pick one to execute via a popup menu at run time.
Apple is researching piezo sensors for sleep monitoring
Apple Watch is a great fitness tracker that, with the right app, can even track your sleep patterns so it's a bit unusual that Apple doesn't offer its own sleep-tracking functionality in the watchOS software. But as indicated by a new patent application published yesterday, it looks like the Cupertino company could be researching sleep monitoring hardware of its own.
Apple Park’s Steve Jobs Theater wins the engineering award for structural artistry
The Steve Jobs Theater pavilion—an underground, 1,000-seat auditorium located on the Apple Park campus and intended for product launches and press meets, has won the prestigious award for Structural Artistry from the Institute of Structural Engineers.
Tim Cook tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour he came out to show kids it’s OK to be gay
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour talks to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook about his decision to come out as gay, something that isn't just quite brave for CEOs but doesn't happen much in Silicon Valley.
Queen guitarist Brian May: “Apple’s become an entirely selfish monster”
Brian May, the lead guitarist of the British rock band Queen that was fronted by late singer Freddie Mercury, has expressed his disdain for Apple's choice of the USB-C standard over the previous connectors. In his rant, May complained about the USB-C connectors bending too easily. He wrote that we’re now “forced into using these damn USB-C connectors for everything” in yesterday's Instagram post accompanied by a picture of a bent USB-C cable.
Review: Apple’s new Smart Folio covers for 2018 iPad Pro—slim but pricey
Older iPads had Smart Covers, but they don't fit the new iPad Pro models introduced in 2018 so Apple has decided to come up with all-new slim covers for the pro tablet, called Smart Folios.
Review: Willgoo case keeps your Apple Pencil charged and its accessories within easy reach
I'm always forgetting to charge my Apple Pencil in a timely fashion, which can be annoying when I'm out and about without any dongles or cables. And because of its design, I refrain from stowing the Apple stylus in my bag or backpack out of fear it might break without any protection. Apple's leather case and others I've tried weren't very helpful. But Willgoo's handy stylus carrying box with a built-in battery has solved my Pencil woes in one fell swoop.
Hackers demonstrate 0-day exploit on iOS 12.1 at recent Tokyo-based Pwn2Own contest
Despite the absurd amounts of time and money that Apple pours into security efforts to make iOS one of the most secure mobile operating systems available today, it seems that even iOS 12.1, the latest publicly-available firmware version on the iPhone and iPad, isn’t entirely hack-proof.
At the recent Pwn2Own contest in Tokyo, Richard Zhu and Amat Cama, a duo of white hat hackers, reportedly harnessed the power of a powerful Safari-based 0-day exploit to recover a photograph that was recently deleted from an iPhone X’s native Photos app.
Editing an entire video on iPad Pro
YouTuber Jonathan Morrison has taken it upon himself to edit an entire video on his new iPad Pro. He went in skeptical but came pleasantly surprised by the powerful combination of the unreal A12X Bionic processor and the excellent LumaFusion app.