Apple’s most senior engineers and its marketing chief sat down with The Independent to discuss the company's new M1 laptop chip that's replacing Intel silicon in Macs.
Apple engineers explain how the M1 silicon came to exist
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Philips Hue brings HomeKit Adaptive Lighting support to its Ambiance smart lights
Following a period of beta testing, Philips Hue customers can now take advantage of HomeKit’s new Adaptive Lighting feature in the company's Ambiance smart light products.
HomePod mini reviews roundup: great sound for a compact design
Apple announced its newest smart speaker, the HomePod mini, earlier this year. It went up for pre-order last week, and launches Monday, November 16.
A teardown confirms that the iPhone 12 Pro Max battery is only 3,687 mAh
A user in China posted on the country's microblogging site Weibo images of an iPhone 12 Pro Max that has been torn apart to reveal a 3,687 mAh battery inside the device.
Instagram adds Reels and Shop tabs, its first home screen redesign in years
Facebook-owned Instagram is adding the Reels and Shop tabs to the home screen of its mobile app for iOS and Android, a major change to the app's layout for the first time in years.
FreeTheSandbox discusses its plan for iOS 13.x jailbreak release, no ETA
Those eagerly waiting for a jailbreak with support for the concluding versions of the iOS & iPadOS 13 family before Apple officially released iOS & iPadOS 14 this Fall have two options, with the first being to wait for FreeTheSandbox to release the jailbreak they’ve been teasing for more than a month, or the second being to continue waiting for someone to pick up an exploit like the one just recently released by @_simo36.
If the FreeTheSandbox offering sounds like a better choice to you, then we’ve got some news for you. The official FreeTheSandbox Twitter account shared the following Tweet early Thursday morning to comment on the state of the jailbreak they’ve been working on:
Early benchmarks show M1 outperforming every Mac ever made in single-core scores
Just how much faster Apple's new M1 chip is when pitted against its Intel silicon counterparts? Well, someone with access to Apple's new M1-powered Macs submitted alleged Geekbench 5 scores showing the chip outperforming every Mac ever made in single-core performance.
PerfectSpotify lets jailbreakers augment the Spotify app’s user interface
Those who swear by Spotify can come up with an endless list of reasons as to why it’s a better music streaming platform than Apple Music, but despite what Spotify fans tell you, there are still a myriad of different ways that the Spotify app itself could be improved.
PerfectSpotify is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak created by iOS developer Luki120 that permits any Spotify user wielding a jailbroken handset to augment their Spotify app with various customizations of their choosing, whether that means enabling a better song library interface, hiding unwanted elements of the user interface, or something else.
The highly-anticipated mythic adventure “The Pathless“ launches on Apple Arcade
The mythic adventure “The Pathless“ is now available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV as part of the $5 per month Apple Arcade game-subscription service.
Tenmetsu makes the iPhone’s rear-facing flash more like a pro flashlight
In addition to being a phone and an internet communications device, the iPhone could be described as a digital multitool. A great example is the handset’s rear-facing LED flash, which doubles as a flashlight when we find ourselves stranded in the dark.
Out of the box, a stock iPhone supports use of the aforementioned LED flash as a flashlight via the Lock Screen Quick Action button or the dedicated Control Center module. Users may also adjust the LED brightness in steps if they wish. Unlike a lot of flashlights on the market today, however, the iPhone’s LED flash seems lackluster in the feature department. That’s where a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Tenmetsu by iOS developer Plat-Ykor comes into play.
Exploit PoC targeting up to iOS 13.7 released
If you’ve been paying any attention to the iOS & iPadOS security research side of things recently, then you might’ve caught wind about a kernel bug discovered by Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36) that held the capacity to pwn iOS & iPadOS 14.1 and below. Unfortunately, Ghannam later revealed that the bug didn’t work on iOS or iPadOS 14, and instead that it would only support variants of iOS & iPadOS 13.
While the aforementioned circumstances were indeed a bummer for those who’d been looking forward to a potential exploit release for iOS & iPadOS 14, the good news is that Ghannam officially released a kernel exploit proof of concept (PoC) dubbed 'OOB Events' on Wednesday with instructions for achieving kernel task port (tfp0) on iOS & iPadOS 13.7:
Oprah’s interview of Barack Obama will air November 17 on Apple TV+ show ‘The Oprah Conversation’
We first heard about The Oprah Conversations way back in July of this year. The new series premiered at the end of that month, and now an upcoming free episode will center around former President of the United States, Barack Obama.