Apple on Tuesday announced its Entrepreneur Camp, a new initiative focused on helping female entrepreneurs and app makers create new opportunities.
Apple launches an app development initiative for female coders and entrepreneurs
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Trump says tariffs could also be placed on iPhones and Mac notebooks
President Donald Trump has implied that the US government might place a ten percent tariff on iPhones, Mac notebooks and other computers imported from China.
Apple Stores to run free coding sessions December 1-14
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.
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.
SmartVolumeMixer, Switches, XEdgeProtect, and more jailbreak tweaks to check out this weekend
As we conclude the Thanksgiving holiday this weekend, we just wanted to mention how thankful we are to have a jailbreak and to have such wonderful readers like you here at iDB.
In this roundup, we’ll discuss all the jailbreak tweaks released in Cydia from Monday, November 19th to Sunday, November 25th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by talking about our favorite releases and then outline the rest afterward.
The top stories of the week on iDB
Like every Sunday, we get to take a look at some of the most popular posts that were published on iDB during the week that just ended. Whether it is a news item, a new jailbreak tweak, a tutorial, or an app review, we sum it all up in one convenient place for you.
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.