Dark Mode-centric jailbreak tweaks are becoming increasingly popular given the lack of native Dark Mode support in Apple’s mobile operating system, but while the bulk of such tweaks can make an app interface or web view darker, that doesn’t do much for the content inside the app, such as images and screenshots shared by others in social media apps.
Apple has reportedly poached an executive from Samsung SDI, Samsung Electronics' battery-making affiliate, to help lead its own battery work.
Apple this week reportedly laid off more than two-hundred employees from its stealthy autonomous vehicle group, dubbed Project Titan.
Other employees who were impacted by the project's restructuring are staying at Apple, but moving to different parts of the company.
According to people familiar with Apple's motives who spoke with CNBC, the layoffs were internally billed "as a kind of restructuring under the relatively new leadership."
A spokesperson for the California firm was quoted as saying:
We have an incredibly talented team working on autonomous systems and associated technologies at Apple. As the team focuses their work on several key areas for 2019, some groups are being moved to projects in other parts of the company, where they will support machine learning and other initiatives, across all of Apple.
We continue to believe there is a huge opportunity with autonomous systems, that Apple has unique capabilities to contribute, and that this is the most ambitious machine learning project ever.
"The most ambitious machine learning project ever" could not be a more apt description of any autonomous driving project, really.
Apple last August hired Doug Field, Tesla's engineering vice president, to lead the Project Titan team alongside Apple's former un-retired hardware chief Bob Mansfield.
Although investors have burned billions of dollars on autonomous driving startups and companies like Tesla, Uber, Waymo and Cruise, the technology just isn't there yet.
In 2016, Project Titan shifted focus from electric cars to autonomous driving systems, but fruits of those efforts have yet to materialize as details of what Apple's up to are hazy.
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Just a week after Netflix announced it will be raising its prices, Hulu on Wednesday said it will be tweaking its pricing strategy as well. The streaming service is lowering the price of its entry-level plan to $5.99 per month, and raising its Hulu+ Live TV plan to $45 per month.
Twitter's optional Night Mode, introduced in mid-2106, isn't dark enough for many customers who were asking for a pure black interface rather than a dark-gray theme. Thankfully, the firm is aware of this #FirstWorldProblem issue and has promised to do something about it.
As TechCrunch reported yesterday, in response to a complaint from a customer who told Twitter's boss Jack Dorsey that the app's Night Mode theme isn’t dark enough but more of a blue-ish or gray-ish shade, Dorsey acknowledged that’s going to be fixed.
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1087093262664364032Darkened interfaces aren’t just softer on the eyes but also look gorgeous on OLED panels that typically display far greater contrast than the LCD screens. Apple provides an officially sanctioned system-wide Dark Mode on Macs, but not on iPhones and iPads.
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Due to the popularity of dark themes in apps, many popular apps have now implemented an optional darkened interface, like a number of iPhone apps now support darker themes, including Outlook, Twitterrific, Wikipedia, Bear Notes, Apollo, YouTube and many more.
App Store's curated list of the top Dark Mode-like appsFor more apps with a Dark Mode-like appearance, be sure to check out Apple's own list of the top apps that feature dark or pure black interfaces. The third-party website Darkmodelist.com highlights 70+ iPhone apps with custom dark themes along with screenshots.
In my personal opinion, Twitterrific has probably the best implementation of a Dark Mode-like interface of any app. Aside from your choice of Light or Black theme (the latter offers two sub-settings, Dark and Black), the app offers an automatic theme-switching option based on the time of day. Or, you can just swipe left or right with two fingers to switch themes manually.
Twitterrific has light, dark and pure black themes.Aside from battery benefits on OLED screens, Dark Mode interfaces reduce the amount of sleep-disrupting blue light, helping lessen device addiction and improve sleep.
Even The Wall Street Journal did a write-up on dark themes in apps, arguing that dark or pure black interfaces should become a standard setting across all apps and devices.
https://twitter.com/mims/status/1087001557940535296Dark Mode fans have been holding their breath for a proper system-wide Dark Mode setting in iOS. Though it could introduce it with iOS 13 after it debuted Dark Mode in macOS Mojave last year, as with everything Apple—nothing is certain until Apple officially announces it.
And given that 2020 iPhones may use OLEDs exclusively, including a successor to the LCD-based iPhone XR, it'd make sense to bring Dark Mode to iPhone and iPad with iOS 13 this fall.
Should iOS implement a system-wide Dark Mode, do you think?
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Hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd issued at least three more revisions to the unc0ver v2.2.0 pre-release since our last coverage, with each revision bringing fresh bug fixes and performance improvements to make the jailbreak experience as smooth as possible for users.
Citing the changelog published on Pwn20wnd’s official GitHub page, those three revisions encompass the following changes:
Apple officially dropped iOS 12.1.3 on Tuesday, and it wasn’t long after that security researcher @S0rryMyBad Tweeted a proof of concept (PoC) of the bug used to achieve an iOS 12 jailbreak at the TianfuCup PWN Contest last November.
On Wednesday, @S0rryMyBad followed up with the PoC he Tweeted by publishing a detailed blog post elaborating the ins and outs of his bug, including how it works and how to use it on iOS 12.1.2 and below:
Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes ran a report this morning which alleged that an AirPods revision with built-in health sensors could be on its way in the first half of this year.
All great online stores, including the likes of Amazon and eBay, have a wish list feature that lets you take note of things you’d like to purchase later. But wouldn’t it be great if digital content stores like Cydia touted something similar?
If you’re like me and find it exceptionally troublesome when iOS refuses to download certain app updates because they’re ‘too large’ to be downloaded over a cellular network, then you’ll just love a free jailbreak tweak called Appstore Unrestrict by iOS developer Julio Verne.
This tweak does away with the silly prompt shown above, allowing you to download app updates of any size even when you’re connected to a cellular network instead of Wi-Fi. Can anyone say hallelujah?
Just over two weeks ago, security researcher @S0rryMyBad announced the discovery of an exploit for iOS 12.1.2 and below for pre-A12 devices, adding that he would release information about it after Apple patched it in a software update. Fortunately, that time has finally come.
Several hours after Apple released iOS 12.1.3 to the public on Tuesday, @S0rryMyBad made good on his promise by Tweeting a proof of concept screenshot of the bug that he had teased earlier in the month: