Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the ongoing encryption debate between Apple and the FBI, describing the situation as "the worst dilemma ever." Speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the democratic presidential candidate equivocated between the two positions, specifying that "there … | Continue reading
Eden Games, creators of classic racing games like V-Rally and Test Drive Unlimited, have soft-launched a racing game for iOS called Gear.Club. They're bringing their experience with creating gorgeous worlds to race through with fancy-looking real-world cars to iOS. While you won' … | Continue reading
Scott Forstall, an Apple executive who left the company after it fumbled the high-profile launch of its Google Maps competitor in 2012, is a co-producer of Eclipsed, the first Broadway play featuring an all-female cast and creative team and starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o. I … | Continue reading
Music listeners are cheapskates. Few will pay Spotify or Apple $10 a month even to stream almost every song ever. Meanwhile, radio services Pandora hardly scrape by on the meager ad rates after they pay out royalties. So if Pandora wants to resuscitate the battered corpse of Rdio … | Continue reading
Google Photos will now allow users to back up and view Live Photos taken with the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, the company announced in a tweet. The latest version of the iOS app has finally received support for the format, nearly six months after Apple introduced Live Photos in … | Continue reading
Apple’s new ‘spaceship’ campus is set to debut in early 2017, but the company is showing off one impressive piece of the puzzle (literally) early. The roof of Apple’s new “Theatre” is a one-piece, 80-ton behemoth that is 140 feet in diameter. It’s also made of carbon fiber, and A … | Continue reading
Google Cardboard is an amazing idea for bringing virtual reality to anyone on the cheap. Unfortunately, wearing one looks ridiculous, and most versions are either bulky or too complicated to fold. Dodocase, a company that’s primarily specialized in making accessories for Apple de … | Continue reading
Apple's new campus has received significant attention during its development phase, from design renderings to blueprints to aerial footage captured by drones. Apple has shared with Mashable exclusive details and photos of its new corporate offices, including the theater that will … | Continue reading
Apple looks to have come to the end of the road in a long running legal saga involving allegations of an e-books price inflating conspiracy. Read More | Continue reading
WASHINGTON (By Lawrence Hurley, Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Apple Inc’s challenge to an appellate court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, meaning it will have to pay $450 million as part of a settlement. Th … | Continue reading
Apple has shut down what appears to have been the first, fully-functional ransomware targeting Mac computers. This particular form of cyber threat involves malware that encrypts the data on your personal computer so you can no longer access it. Afterwards, the hackers request tha … | Continue reading
A new ransomware program is thought to be the first of its kind for Apple systems. Is this a one-off, or are more on the way? | Continue reading
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on Apple's ebooks price-fixing case, locking the company in to a $450 million settlement, Reuters reports.After a major Justice Department investigation found that Apple had conspired with book publishers to raise the price of eboo … | Continue reading
Amazon will open its second physical bookstore in a San Diego mall, opposite an Apple store and next to a Tesla store, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune. Signage erected outside the location says the bookstore is arriving "this summer," confirming rumors of the new location spa … | Continue reading
The e-book pricing lawsuit that’s been ongoing since 2012 has finally reached its end today, with Apple being told that it must pay $450 million to settle by the Supreme Court. The Department of Justice alleged that Apple conspired with Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & S … | Continue reading
It’s definitely easier to find someone commenting on the iPhone/FBI standoff than it is to find out exactly how many people use iPhones and iPads. But that number, particularly those people using iOS 7 or below, is pretty crucial if you look at one latest comment piece on the top … | Continue reading
Lavabit, the former encrypted email provider that shut down its service in 2013 after the FBI demanded its encryption keys, has filed an amicus brief in support of Apple in its legal battle with the agency. Read More | Continue reading
Apple customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers with Palo Alto Networks told Reuters on Sunday. | Continue reading
Since the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the most charismatic member of the company's public-facing team has been senior vice president of software engineering Craig FederighiOn Sunday, Federighi used some of that social capital to push Apple's message forward regarding … | Continue reading
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering (and one of its most popular WWDC presenters) says the FBI’s demands on the company will make all iOS users more vulnerable to malicious attacks in an opinion piece for the Washington Post. Read More | Continue reading
As the legal battle between Apple and the FBI continues, Apple's vice president of software today presented the company's case to the public. Craig Federighi, Apple's vice president of software, is the latest to present the case for the company to the public. In an op-ed in the W … | Continue reading
The very high-profile and incredibly important case between Apple and the FBI wanting access to data stored on an iPhone could have “serious global ramifications,” according to the United Nation’s High Commissioner of Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. “In order to address a sec … | Continue reading
In an industry that constantly lusts toward the future, the Internet Archive has once again helped retain tech’s past by announcing that it has saved more than 500 Apple II programs. The San Francisco-based non-profit has been doing yeoman’s work for years now, maintaining everyt … | Continue reading
Everything you need to know about Samsung Pay, the mobile payments platform which is available on selected Galaxy smartphones and has an advantage over Android Pay and Apple Pay. | Continue reading
Amazon has quickly reversed course after it found itself in a PR firestorm earlier this week for quietly disabling encryption on its Fire OS 5 software. The move came at a particularly inopportune time: a standoff between Apple and the FBI over a suspected terrorist's iPhone has … | Continue reading
While the US is in the middle of a very public encryption battle between Apple and the FBI, Amazon decided to quietly disable the security feature in the latest version of its Fire OS. Removing the ability for users to encrypt their personal data basically goes against all cybers … | Continue reading
The U.S. District Court handling the Apple-FBI encryption case today published the entire amicus curiae brief from San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos in support of the U.S. government. And oh, is it contentious. Ramos, an elected official in the county where th … | Continue reading
For as far back as last June when Apple released the private beta of iOS 9 during WWDC, Game Center has been plagued with issues. For some reason the service just simply stops working out of the blue. I didn't personally become affected with the Game Center bug until sometime las … | Continue reading
Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff spoke at the RSA conference this week, where he claimed forcing Apple to decrypt a device for the FBI is equivalent to biological warfare. | Continue reading
It doesn’t look like the Oculus Rift will be coming to Macs anytime soon, judging by the serious shade thrown at Apple by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey.In an interview with Shack News, Luckey was asked if there would ever be Mac support for the Rift virtual reality headset comi … | Continue reading
Sony is doing something unheard of in the consumer electronic space: It’s going to show off prototypes. Can you imagine Apple or Samsung doing that? Not really, no. For several good reasons, electronic companies like to keep products under wraps until they’re completely finished … | Continue reading
Employees at a three companies are now able to get the Apple Watch for $25 — so long as they meet monthly activity goals. Leveraging the Apple Watch’s health tracking sensors, employees of Amgen, DaVita HealthCare Partners and Lockton must satisfy those monthly goals over a two y … | Continue reading
San Bernadino Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Ramos isn’t content to await a congressional ruling in the Apple and FBI case — instead, he chose to file an amicus brief, a legal show of support, that contained language designed to arouse the suspicions of the people. “The i … | Continue reading
Conventional wisdom dictates that Apple performs best in Western markets, where operator-subsidized contracts are most popular and consumer spending power is greater, but it turns out the U.S. company is doing better in India than many expected. Read More | Continue reading
Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey has come out swinging against Apple, explaining the reason Oculus Rift doesn't support Apple Mac yet is because Apple doesn't make good enough computers. | Continue reading
When Apple’s Worldwide Developer Certificate expired in February it caused problems for some developers, but another major problem that’s going to affect more people has just surfaced: it breaks OS X installers. If you’ve created an OS X installation CD or downloaded an installer … | Continue reading
Oculus CEO Palmer Luckey has declared that he won't build Oculus software for the Mac until Apple fields a 'good computer.' While he won't win points for tact, a look at the GPUs currently powering most Mac systems shows he's not wrong, either. | Continue reading
A growing number of tech industry giants have signed a joint amicus brief backing Apple’s position on device encryption verses the FBI. | Continue reading
The legal tussle between Apple and the FBI over a locked iPhone, and the security weakening measures the security services want the iOS maker to take to help it extract data on the device, has now attracted comment from the UN’s commissioner for human rights. Read More | Continue reading
France's lower house of parliament yesterday passed an amendment that would levy penalties against technology companies that do not provide access to encrypted data during terrorism investigations. The amendment, which has the support of right-wing politicians but is opposed by t … | Continue reading
In an effort to motivate employees to maintain healthier lifestyles, a handful of companies are experimenting with providing Apple Watches for only $25. According to the Wall Street Journal, Vitality Group, a health-services firm, is launching the program this year at a handful o … | Continue reading
Der Gründer von Oculus, Palmer Luckey, hat bekannt gegeben, dass es für die finale Version von Oculus Rift, anders als bislang geplant, keine Mac Version geben wird. Selbst der teuerste Mac Pro hat nicht die passenden Spezifikationen. "We... | Continue reading
On Thursday, the San Bernardino District Attorney speculated that the phone in question may be housing a “dormant cyber pathogen” that threatens the county. The DA’s comment represents the first time that any law enforcement agency has said publicly what may be on the phone, whic … | Continue reading
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has poured water on the idea of his Rift virtual reality headset supporting the Mac by saying that Apple doesn't make any computers powerful enough to run it."That is up to Apple and if they ever release a good computer we will do it," Luckey tells Sh … | Continue reading
At a panel discussion today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and Homeland Security threw their support behind encryption technologies. Michael Chertoff, who was the head of Homeland Security under presidents … | Continue reading
The iPhone at the center of the ongoing legal battle between Apple and the FBI may hold a "dormant cyber pathogen" that could cripple San Bernardino, according to the county's District Attorney. Michael Ramos' court filing ascertains that the iPhone, provided to San Bernardino sh … | Continue reading
Kendrick Lamar's new album, Untitled Unmastered, is available now on iTunes, and should be arriving on Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify very soon. Spotify leaked information on the album earlier today, including its name and ambiguous eight-song track list, which features the word … | Continue reading
Lavabit, a company that operated an encrypted email service for more than 400,000 people — reportedly including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden — before it shut down in 2013 under legal pressure from the FBI, rose from the dead today. In an federal court filing, the company came … | Continue reading