Governments have been secretly tracking the app activity of an unknown number of people using Apple and Google smartphones, US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed today. In a letter demanding that the…
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Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card
Apple Apple has repeatedly trumpeted the success of its financial services, a product lineup that now encompasses the Apple Card credit card, high-interest savings accounts, and a buy-now-pay-later service called Apple Pay…
Beeper Mini for Android sends and receives iMessages, no Mac server required
Enlarge / A Pixel 3, messaging a savvy iPhone owner, one with the kinds of concerns Beeper hopes to resolve for its customers. Kevin Purdy In the past week, I have sent…
MacBook Air gets solid-state active cooling in intriguing demo
Enlarge / The active cooling chips are labeled and located in the upper-left corner near a custom heatsink in the 15-inch MacBook Air. What if laptops could get fan-level cooling without moving…
New chip-packaging facility could save TSMC’s Arizona fab from “paperweight” status
Enlarge / Apple wants to build more of its A- and M-series chips in the United States. Apple Late last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company would definitely be…
Google researchers report critical 0-days in Chrome and all Apple OSes
Researchers in Google’s Threat Analysis Group have been as busy as ever with discoveries that have led to the disclosure of three high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in Apple OSes and…