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You knew it was just a matter of time before Apple’s Group FaceTime ‘eavesdropping’ bug drew the attention of politicians. New York Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation into the FaceTime flaw in hopes of understanding both its “failure to warn consumers” and reports of a “slow response” to the problem. Stated residents […]
Enlarge / Apple demonstrates Group Facetime at WWDC 2018. (credit: Valentina Palladino) Users have discovered a bug in Apple’s FaceTime video-calling application that allows you to hear audio from a person you’re calling before they accept the call—a critical bug that could potentially be used as a tool by malicious users to invade the privacy […]
Apple’s FaceTime might make it a little too convenient to drop in on a friend. Reports have emerged of a bug that lets you listen to the other side’s audio before a call has even started. All you have to do is start a FaceTime call, add a person, and choose your own phone number […]
Enlarge / Apple demonstrates Group Facetime at WWDC 2018. (credit: Valentina Palladino) Apple released the seventh beta build of iOS 12 today. The update is focused on performance improvements on older devices—a tentpole promise of iOS 12—but the beta release notes reveal something unexpected about the public release of iOS 12 later this year: the […]
(credit: Aurich Lawson) AT&T’s push to end net neutrality rules continued yesterday in a blog post that says the company has never blocked third-party applications and that it won’t do so even after the rules are gone. Just one problem: the blog post fails to mention that AT&T blocked Apple’s FaceTime video chat application on iPhones […]
(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, a new video essay explores how Ridley Scott […]
Enlarge / The iPhone 4S. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Back in February 2017, two Californians sued Apple in a proposed class-action lawsuit over the fact that the company disabled an older version of iOS. Disabling the outdated iOS had the effect of making FaceTime stop working on the customers’ iPhone 4 devices. According to a ruling […]
Is there really room for yet another video-calling app? Google certainly thinks so with Duo, and it has the numbers to back it up. In a little more than a week after launching, the app was downloaded more than 5 million times on Android, and its popularity has only continued. In March, Google introduced users in Brazil […]
