Google’s Advanced Protection Program — intended strictly for people needing maximum account security, such as journalists, activists, and politicians — now supports iOS’ core Mail, Calendar, and Contacts apps.

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Apple sold 9.1 million iPad units worldwide in the first quarter of the year, for a market share just below 30 percent, with the iPad Pro holding the top spot in the “detachable” high-end tablet market.

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Connected speaker maker Sonos on Thursday invited the press to a June 6 event in San Francisco, where the company will almost certainly reveal a new home theater product with support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.

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If you have a large collection of images that you need to resize, an easy way to change all of the files quickly is to use Preview, included within macOS, instead of using a dedicated utility or an image editing program’s functions. AppleInsider walks through how to batch process the photographs and other graphics to fit a certain size.

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Apple on Thursday announced that it’s taking applications for its 2018 Developer Academy in Naples, Italy, accepting people not just from Italy but around the world.

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With mounting legal fees and vanishing clients in the wake of revelations about its use of Facebook data, political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and its British parent company, SCL Elections, are shutting down.

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Apple silently bought up a massive $23.5 billion of its own shares off the open market in the March quarter, taking advantage of the “full panic mode” agitated by analysts and financial news sites who bizarrely wondered aloud for weeks when exactly Apple might “kill” the most advanced, commercially successful smartphone it has produced yet.

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Apple spent almost $3.4 billion on research and development over the course of its second fiscal quarter of 2018, a $602 million year-over-year increase that brings the company’s six-month spend on future operations to nearly $6.8 billion.

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Apple Watch continues to prove successful in not only helping users achieve health and fitness goals, but also in saving lives, the most recent being William Monzidelis, who nearly died from an erupted ulcer earlier this month.

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Though the wider smartphone market contracted in the first quarter of 2018, Apple was able to grow its share of the pie on the back of healthy iPhone demand in the U.S. and China, according to market analytics firms.

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