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Apple Music has tweaked the $99 a year membership offer, and now does not require the use of a gift card. At this price, the service only costs $8.25 a month, which is cheaper than the $9.99 monthly options from competitors Spotify and Pandora. At this point it’s not clear whether the offer is only…
Considering Apple’s history of “stealing” jailbreak tweaks for new versions of iOS, it might come as a bit of a surprise to you that the company is now putting the squeeze on the jailbreak community in an attempt to stifle kernel exploitation on iOS. iOS 11 is no different, and Apple brings in a slew of…
A Variety report shows that Google has nabbed ex-Apple employee and microprocessor industry veteran Manu Gulati to head up its own SoC team, an indication that the company is considering designing its own processors, presumably for future generations of the Pixel smartphone and possibly the Google Home smart speaker as well. Gulati has been working with…
As far as our radar shows, we don’t expect an iOS 10.3.1 jailbreak for at least another two months. It could come as the Pangu iOS 10.3.1 jailbreak tool called Janus after the mobile security conference where it was showcased, or it might be based on the exploit that security expert Adam Donenfeld has written…
Microsoft released a very significant device a little while ago, and they decided to just call it Surface Pro – no numbers or year of release tagged on to the end. There were about 800 component upgrades to the product compared to the earlier Surface Pro 4, and we now know that this is actually…
There are more than a billion active Apple iPhone devices around the world. And every quarter, the world’s number one premium smartphone maker sells tens of millions of devices to add to that pool. As such, Apple’s other services and applications can potentially reach hundreds of millions of users around the world, but Apple never really concentrated on…
On the first day of Apple’s WWDC 2017 this past Monday, June 5, jailbreak celebrity and security researcher Luca Todesco tweeted a cryptic message on his Twitter account that simply said: “5-10 Vulnerabilities.” While that could refer to any one of the multiple projects he’s currently working on (PS4 and so on), we believe he…
All reliable sources point to an iOS 10.3.1 jailbreak coming out sometime at the end of August, with one of them possibly being pushed to September or even later. Let’s look at the various options available right now for anyone running iOS 10.x.x, and see what the horizon holds for the future. For iOS 10.0 to…
iOS 11 looks like it’s going to get a brand new “Files” app, where a placeholder app was discovered by Twitter user Steve Troughton-Smith. That could indicate a much better file management system for the new iPhone than the current iCloud Drive option. Related Article: Is My Data Safe on iCloud Drive? Not much is visible…
This year, Apple Inc. is giving attendees of WWDC 2017 black Levi’s jackets with the WWDC logo embroidered on them, ceramic pins with various logos like the vintage multi-color Apple logo, the logo for their programming language Swift and others. They’re also giving out pins with flags based on the developer’s nationality, as well as…
Siri might not be the brightest star in the voice assistant constellation, but any device that she’s a part of is very likely to sell in the tens of millions of units. The new Siri-controlled smart speaker that Apple is expected to unveil at its developer conference that’s starting tomorrow, June 5, 2017 in San…
Insider information via Bloomberg shows that Apple could be announcing its own smart speaker powered by Siri next week at its developer conference, WWDC 2017. Should Amazon Echo or Google Home feel threatened by a new presence in the smart home assistant segment? Let’s take a look at the facts and see if they should….
Yesterday, at the Computex 2017 expo in Taipei, Taiwan, Qualcomm Technologies, subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, announced that three major OEMs – Lenovo, HP and ASUS – will be the first to build “mobile PCs” that are powered by the Snapdragon 835, which features the company’s X16 LTE cellular modem. These devices will run Windows 10,…
A new report from the Wall Street Journal says that supply woes for Nintendo Switch could actually be Apple’s fault. Not that the two lines of products – Nintendo Switch and iPhone – are in direct competition with each other. Well, actually, they are, but not for customers – for internal components like LCD screens,…
Now that the Pangu iOS 10.3.1 jailbreak is out of the running – for reasons we’ve outlined before – it all boils down to the exploit that Adam Donenfeld of Zimperium has written for an iOS 10.3.1 jailbreak. The exploit has a security patch as of iOS 10.3.2, but Donenfeld did confirm that the exploit…
