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Justin Edmonds/Getty Images Apple is making a change to the way iPhones call 911. For users, nothing will change on the surface. But behind the scenes, your iPhone will provide location data from cell towers, GPS, and Wi-Fi to the 911 call center over a new internet-based path. Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said it […]
Mark and Jay Duplass have collaborated on shorts, feature films, television, and, by their account, some cheap childhood remakes of The Blob. (They just threw a beanbag down the stairs.) But they’ve crossed into an entirely new medium with their latest effort: a book, called Like Brothers. Like Brothers is part memoir, part practical filmmaking […]
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider When Apple introduced the iPhone 7 Plus in 2016, it contained a new camera feature that quickly became one of the most talked about — and copied — in Apple’s lineup: Portrait mode. Portrait mode uses the phone’s dual cameras and Apple’s software to mimic the quality you would get from a […]
Chinese authorities have busted a high-tech smuggling ring that used unmanned aerial vehicles to illegally transport almost $ 80 million worth of smartphones from Hong Kong. The suspects smuggled up to 15,000 phones per night. The cross-border gang was busted by Customs officers in the Shenzhen metropolitan area in southeastern China. Shenzhen links Hong Kong […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Today, Apple released iOS 11.3 to all supported devices, including the iPad Air and later, the iPad mini 2 and later, the iPhone 5S and later, and the sixth-generation iPod touch. The update is available for download now in supported regions. With several new features, it’s arguably the biggest update to iOS […]
Reuters AnandTech, a publication known for its technical analyses, has put the device against Apple’s latest iPhones, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845, and Samsung’s own Galaxy S8 in a series of benchmark tests. The iPhone has won in virtually every test against the newer Galaxy S9, sometimes with huge margins, but the S9 has performed worse than […]
Enlarge (credit: Samuel Axon) According to a new report, three new iPhones will launch in 2018, all derived from the design and features of the iPhone X. One would be a direct successor to the iPhone X, another would be a significantly larger cousin with the biggest smartphone screen Apple has yet produced, and the […]
dontnod One of the best features of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, is its immense catalog of apps. Almost 2.5 million applications populate the store, and while not all of them are top-notch, there certainly is a good selection. Games in particular are a crown jewel, so much so that Apple has dedicated them an […]
In early January, Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, called upon Apple to answer for the lack of transparency it showed surrounding its slow-down practices for aging iPhones. Today, Thune’s office released Apple’s response: a five-page letter in which Apple reiterates the slow-down saga. While the letter contains little new information, Apple […]
Microsoft will soon lose 36,000 of its remaining Windows Phone customers, as the NYPD starts distributing iPhones to its officers. The department, which first announced its decision to replace cops’ Windows Phones last year, is now rolling out 600 iPhones a day in Manhattan. Once it’s done upgrading the phones of all the cops in […]
