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  1. Maura

    California Police are Using Decoys and Undercover Cops to Catch Apple and Google Bus Shooter

    For the past couple of months you might have spotted reports online about mysterious pellet-gun attacks on the shuttle buses that are used to ferry Apple and Google employees and other workers to their campuses in San Francisco, California. According to a report from AppleInsider, since the...
  2. Maura

    Snap to Launch Two New Pairs of Spectacles

    Engadget reports today that despite the fact that Snap’s Spectacles-with-camera gadget did not sell as well as the company had hoped, causing it to lose a rumoured $40 million due to over-estimating demand, the company is ready to give Spectacles another try. According to the original report...
  3. Maura

    iPhone X Outperforms Samsung Galaxy S9 in First Benchmark Tests

    While initial reports have said that the new Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ have a better display and camera than the iPhone X, MacRumors reports that according to early benchmark tests from AnandTech, the iPhone X’s A11 chip is still outperforming the Samsung S9’s new Exynos 9810 chip. In fact, in...
  4. Maura

    My Tamagotchi Forever Coming to iOS March 15

    Tamagotchi digital pets that were a huge craze 20 years ago are about to make a big comeback on iOS with the forthcoming “My Tamagotchi Forever” free-to-play game, which will be released on March 15, according to AppleInsider. The game already had a soft launch in several countries at the end...
  5. Maura

    New Report Says That iPhone X Has Best Smartphone Camera

    Consumer Report is not always particularly fair to Apple products, but MacRumors reports that the organisation has today published new figures that ranks the iPhone X as the best smartphone camera available on the market today. Even better than that, Consumer Reports’ top 10 smartphone cameras...
  6. Maura

    AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint Team Up to Create New Mobile Authentication Platform

    9to5 Mac reports that the Mobile Authentication Taskforce, comprising AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, has today announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona its “next-generation mobile authentication platform.” The Mobile Authentication Taskforce was created last year to develop a...
  7. Maura

    iPhone Battery Replacement Wait Times Are Longer Than Ever

    According to new information from Barclays, via MacRumors, people waiting to get their old iPhone battery replacement will now have to wait longer than ever, with average wait times increasing from 2.7 weeks to 4.5 weeks. Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz gleaned the data via checks on a number of...
  8. Maura

    Apple Launching Wellness Clinics For Staff

    Over the past few years we’ve seen how Apple has increasingly ventured into the health arena, with products such as the Apple Watch and iPhone frequently credited for saving the lives of users with heart problems, for example. Now it looks like Apple is set to take it further by launching a...
  9. Maura

    First-Day HomePod Pre-Orders Beat Those of Rivals

    MacRumors reports today on new data from NPD Group that shows that first-day pre-orders for Apple’s HomePod were bigger than first-day pre-orders for many of HomePod’s biggest rivals such as the Sonos One and the Google Home Max in the US. The only smart speaker that HomePod did not beat in...
  10. Maura

    Apple to Launch Over-Ear Headphones This Year After Success of AirPods

    AppleInsider reports today that well-sourced KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said in a note to investors that due to the huge success of AirPods, Apple is planning to launch its own brand of over-the-ear headphones sometime this year. While Kuo did not give a specific date for the...
  11. Maura

    Rumoured 6.5-Inch iPhone X Plus to Have Dual SIM and Gold Colour Option

    According to a new report from Bloomberg today, via MacRumors, Apple is set to release three new iPhones in 2018, including “the largest iPhone ever,” a new iPhone X model with a 6.5-inch screen. This backs up recent similar reports from other good sources. MacRumors says that Apple wants to...
  12. Maura

    AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Could be Here By March

    According to a new report on Japanese Apple website Mac Otakara, via MacRumors, Apple’s new AirPower wireless charging mat could be onsale as soon as March. The news comes from “reliable sources,” apparently, and backs up previous similar claims from The Apple Post earlier this month...
  13. Maura

    Apple Repair Facility Made 1,600 False Alarm Calls Since October

    A fascinating story today from CBS Sacramento, via AppleInsider, which reports that Apple’s repair and refurbishing centre in Elk Grove, California, is responsible for making approximately 1,600 false-alarm 911 emergency calls since last October. Jamie Hudson, an emergency dispatcher at the Elk...
  14. Maura

    Apple Pay Used by Over 127 Million People Worldwide

    According to the newly released annual Apple Pay report from Gene Munster’s Loup Ventures, Apple Pay is growing year on year, an “impressive” performance, according to Munster. Loup Ventures estimates that there were 127 million global Apple Pay users by the end of 2017, a big increase from the...
  15. Maura

    Apple Working on Waterproof AirPods With More Siri Integration

    According to an exclusive report from Bloomberg today, Apple is currently working on upgraded AirPods with new hardware features. Bloomberg’s source says that Apple wants to create a regular upgrade cycle for AirPods, just as it does with its other products such as iPhone and iPad...
  16. Maura

    Woman Says FaceTime Saved Her Life When Her Sister Spotted Her Stroke Symptoms

    AppleInsider reports today that a woman from New York City, Opokua Kwapong, is crediting FaceTime with saving her life after her sister, Adumea Sapong, noticed during a call from the UK that her sister was showing stroke symptoms. When Sapong called her older sister via FaceTime and woke her...
  17. Maura

    Alto’s Odyssey Out Now on iOS

    Touch Arcade reports today that the long-awaited sequel to popular endless runner snowboarding game Alto’s Adventure has finally arrived in the App Store, 1 day ahead of its scheduled release date on February 22. Alto’s Odyssey, developed by Snowman, looks just as gorgeous as its illustrious...
  18. Maura

    Fast Company Names Apple World’s Most Innovative Company

    MacRumors reports that Fast Company has proclaimed Apple the most innovative company in the world in its annual ranking of 50 innovative companies. Fast Company says that it has awarded Apple its top honour because of the way in which the company is “delivering the future today.” Among Apple’s...
  19. Maura

    Rumour: Apple to Launch 4.2-Inch iPhone SE 2 at WWDC in June

    9to5 Mac reports today on a fresh rumour about the forthcoming iPhone SE 2, albeit from what it refers to as a “sketchy source.” The rumour comes via Chinese website QQ, which says that Apple will be launching a new iPhone SE at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this June. According...
  20. Maura

    Apple Releases iOS 11.2.6 Fix for Telugu Character Crash-Causing Bug

    MacRumor reports that Apple has today released iOS 11.2.6, primarily to fix the bug that crashes various iOS apps, such as Messages, Safari, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, among others, when a particular Indian-language Telugu character is sent, received or even simply input. Simply receiving...
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