Apple Products Have Major Pre-Black Friday 2021 Discounts Right Now
Early shopping is the name of the game this holiday season. The supply chain is out of whack, shipping delays abound, and—here's the good news—Black Friday sales are starting earlier than ever. If you're in the market for Apple products, there are some serious savings to be had if you shop now. The early bird…
Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
Apple threat notifications are designed to inform and assist users who may have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers. Apple threat notifications are designed to inform and assist users who may have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers. These users are individually targeted because of who they are or what they do. Unlike traditional cybercriminals, state-sponsored attackers…
iOS 15 won’t get digital driver’s license support until 2022
Apple When Apple launched iOS 15, quite a few features were delayed to later versions. While some have already arrived and others are on the way, there is one that won’t be arriving in 2021: ID cards. As spotted by MacRumors, Apple has updated its iOS 15 Overview site to say that the feature allowing…
Apple’s custom-built 5G modem due to land in 2023
Qualcomm When Apple bought the scraps of Intel’s modem business in 2019, it was just a matter of time before it started selling phones without Qualcomm modems. According to a new report, that time is rapidly approaching. Japan-based Nikkei Asia reports that Apple has tapped TSMC to build the new modem, which will use 4-nanometer…
Apple reportedly equipping M1 Max Duo SoC in next iMac Mac Pro
Rumor mill: Apple's latest silicon, the M1 Pro and M1 Max, have barely come off MacBook Pro assembly lines, and rumors are already circulating about what's next for Apple silicon. Rather than going back to the drawing board and designing chips with even higher specs, why not just knit two Max SoCs together? As you…
Apple commissions TSMC to build custom 5G modem for iPhone
In brief: Apple has reportedly tapped Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to build 5G modems for future iPhones. It's unclear exactly when the new hardware will be ready for deployment, but we are hearing it'll be built on TSMC's 4nm process sometime in 2023. Sources familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia that Apple aims…
Google is finally fixing the worst thing about texting between iPhone and Android
For years, iPhone and Android users have been struggling to bridge the divide caused by iMessage. Every iPhone owner knows the feeling of seeing a text turn green instead of blue, and everyone with an Android device has been the odd one out in a group chat. Apple also widened the divide even further a…
Gaia Project is an asynchronous strategy game letting you take control of a galaxy, out now on Android and iOS
Starting off as a PC game, Gaia Project is a strategy-based game created by Digidice. It launched on Steam on May 31st and has now finally been ported over to the ever-growing mobile gaming space. Gaia Project is set in a galaxy called Terra Mystica, featuring 14 different factions who want to colonize the galaxy…
Apple sues NSO Group for attacking iPhones with Pegasus spyware
Now Apple has followed WhatsApp and its parent company Meta (formerly known as Facebook) in suing Pegasus spyware maker NSO Group. Along with promising new information about how NSO Group infected targeted iPhones via a zero-click exploit that researchers later dubbed ForcedEntry, Apple says it’s “seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using…
Wear OS shoots up the market-share charts, now in striking distance of Apple
It turns out, the Android playbook works — Wear OS hits 17.3 percent in Q3, Samsung hits its highest quarterly shipments. Ron Amadeo - Nov 23, 2021 6:04 pm UTC Counterpoint Research has a new report detailing the smartwatch market, and Wear OS is a huge winner. Just three months ago, Google and Samsung teamed…