Apple CEO Tim Cook and a host of tech industry executives will meet with White House officials on Friday to explore ways in which terrorist activity on social media and other online arenas can be hindered or countered.

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According to a purportedly leaked internal document, U.S. wireless carrier Sprint is no longer offering device subsidies on two-year contracts to customers opening new accounts, instead pushing activations toward leasing and installment plans.

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Harman at CES announced the JBL Legend CP100, its first receiver to support Apple’s CarPlay standard, and the first such upgrade beyond a so-far limited number of aftermarket CarPlay partners.

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Eddy Cue, Apple’s head of Internet Software and Services, is reportedly among a select group of people attending a private CES event being hosted by News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.

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Steve Jobs unveiled the “Fastest Web Browser Ever Created for the Mac” this day back in 2003, introducing the Safari web browser that four years later would power a new kind of mobile browsing experience on iPhone.

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Apple is indeed planning to remove the headphone jack from next-generation iPhones, but will “very likely” be adding features like wireless charging and a waterproof chassis, a new report claimed on Thursday.

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The product mix of iPhone models in Apple’s real world installed base of users shows smooth adoption of iPhone 6s models and no evidence of a decline in demand that would require unexpected production cuts. This publicly available data severely undercuts the supply chain rumors supporting a narrative of “Peak iPhone” and reactionary order slashing.

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T-Mobile added 14 new partners in its controversial Binge On program on Thursday, while CEO John Legere simultaneously rebutted critics accusing the company of improper data throttling and/or violating the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules.

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Apple has reportedly acquired Emotient, makers of artificial intelligence software that analyzes facial expressions to determine the subject’s emotional state.

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Mobile photographers might soon have the option of zooming in on their targets without the image degradation that comes with traditional digital zoom, if a new multi-camera optical zoom system spotted in a recent Apple patent application makes it into production.

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