Apple on Wednesday took the unusual step of officially announcing a series of photos shot using the Portrait mode on the iPhone XS, specifically calling attention to the Depth Control feature which lets people adjust simulated depth-of-field after a photo has been taken.
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Yahoo is offering to pay $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit over security breaches that may have impacted as many as 200 million people in the U.S. and Israel, and 3 billion email accounts around the world.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is continuing to call out Bloomberg’s report about Chinese spy chips embedded into iCloud servers as false, proclaiming in an interview about the company’s stance on privacy and taxation that the report “is 100 percent a lie.”
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Major 5G chipmakers like Qualcomm and MediaTek are reportedly moving up their launches by a quarter, which could theoretically make a 5G iPhone possible in late 2019, if still improbable.
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Continuing AppleInsider’s video series comparing Apple’s iPhone XS Max to Google’s Pixel 3 XL, this installment takes a closer look — or listen — at the two flagships’ speaker systems.
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Over the course of the last decade, Apple has become more and more intertwined with Saudi Arabia, and four months after its crown prince visited Apple Park, the regime appears to have carried out the murder of an American journalist. Why Apple should do all it can to disengage from the Saudi regime.
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The Apple-focused device management platform Jamf is launching two new apps for iOS devices, Setup and Reset, intended to make common actions easier for both device users and IT administrators.
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Russian brand ambassador for Samsung Ksenia Sobchak is reportedly being sued by the South Korean smartphone producer, for allegedly being caught in public using an iPhone X instead of handsets she was supposed to be promoting.
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Italy’s antitrust regulator has fined Apple 10 million euros ($11.4 million) and Samsung 5 million euros ($5.7 million), following an investigation into smartphones being slowed down by operating system updates and allegations of planned obsolescence by the manufacturers.
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Details from the Eurasian Economic Commission include updates to previously published data, coupled with three new part numbers that appear to be desktops or iMacs, plus one that’s a MacBook.
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