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.
Facebook’s former security chief criticizes Tim Cook’s comments on privacy
Facebook’s former chief security officer is calling out Tim Cook for his recent speech about privacy and what he calls the steady rise of the “data industrial complex.” While Alex Stamos says he mostly agrees with what the Apple CEO said during his Wednesday speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, he suggests Cooks is perhaps being hypocritical because of his company's dealings with China.
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.
You can now change your Google Search privacy settings on the fly
On Wednesday, Google added a new link on its main Search page that makes it easier to check and change your privacy settings. The link is found on the Google website through any browser, regardless of the device. Google expects to roll out similar links in other Google products next year.
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.