Apple's updated its Events tvOS app ahead of the October 30 iPad Pro and Mac event.
Apple updates Events app with support for the October 30 iPad Pro and Mac event
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How real journalists and human editors pick the news that you’ll read on Apple News
At a privacy conference Wednesday in Brussels, Tim Cook warned about the dangers posed by digital content algorithms that seem to be serving up increasingly extreme content. Today, The New York Times published a rare profile concerning the team charged with managing Apple's News service and how a bunch of human curators are fighting against algorithms.
Watch Tim Cook’s full Brussels keynote blasting Big Tech’s abuse of user privacy
Wednesday, Tim Cook gave an incredibly passionate keynote address at the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Brussels that took us by surprise. In it, the CEO of Apple vehemently defended privacy as a fundamental human right, called for a comprehensive federal privacy law in the US, warned about the dangers of AI and blasted Silicon Valley technology companies for their sweeping abuse of user privacy.
Apple Maps adds transit directions in Switzerland, indoor maps for the Zurich airport
Apple Maps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch now serves transit information in Switzerland. Additionally, indoor maps are now available for the city of Zurich's airport.
Twitterrific for Mac adds a sharing extension, automatic Light/Dark mode switching
Twitterrific for macOS, a Twitter client by The Inconfactory, was updated on Mac App Store last evening with a system-wide sharing extension which makes the app show up in the multi-purpose Share menus throughout the system and across your favorite apps.
With iOS 12, GrayKey can no longer break iPhone passcodes
It looks like Apple might have finally gained the upper hand in its long-running battle with Atlanta, Georgia-based GrayShift, at least for now. Forbes reports the company's passcode hacking technology known as GrayKey doesn't work on devices with iOS 12 or later installed. Instead, members of the forensics community say the technology can only do a "partial extraction" on these devices.
Check out the glass spiral staircase in Apple’s renovated Shibuya store in Japan
Apple is scheduled to reopen its third major store in Japan to feature modern styling alongside the iPhone XR release this Friday, and it's going to sport an elegant glass-clad spiral staircase.
Apple shares bite-sized quotes from the overwhelmingly positive iPhone XR reviews
iDownloadBlog recently rounded up not only first YouTube reviews but also the most popular big media reviews of the new iPhone XR, and now it's Apple's turn to do the same. Earlier this morning, the Cupertino technology giant issued a press release highlighting the best bite-sized quotes from the overwhelmingly positive iPhone XR reviews.
Apple highlights Portrait mode photos featuring Depth Control taken with iPhone XS
Apple today issued a press release to share a bunch of user-submitted Portrait mode photographs with Depth Control that were shot with an iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max.
Why iPhone XR captures way better low-light portraits than iPhone XS
Portrait photography on iPhone XR yields surprisingly good results in some low light situations where it’s unusable on the costlier iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max devices.
Goodbye 3D Touch? Apple to deepen support for iPhone XR’s Haptic Touch in iOS
iPhone XR lacks the 3D Touch feature but its replacement, dubbed Haptic Touch, pairs the familiar tap-and-hold gesture with the vibratory haptic feedback. Currently limited to a handful of places where 3D Touch is used, most notably the Flashlight and Camera shortcuts on your Lock screen, Haptic Touch is definitely coming to more place in iOS in the near future.
Apple and Samsung both fined in Europe for deliberately degrading phone performance
Even though Apple added a toggle to iOS which disables the controversial CPU throttling and offered consumers discounted battery replacements, the Italian watchdog has fined the Cupertino technology giant ten million euros, which works out to about $11.4 million bucks, over using software updates to slow down iPhones and push people into buying new models.