A future iPhone or Apple Watch could determine its general location by gases, Apple has proposed, with the use of miniature sensors inspecting the air to determine if the user is inside or outdoors, and potentially even narrowing down to a specific room, without relying on GPS or signals from communication networks.
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Apple has launched a voluntary recall of some AC wall plug adapters shipped between 2003 and 2010, designed for use primarily in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
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Verizon on Thursday announced 20 further U.S. cities set to get 5G, including the fastest version of the standard, millimeter wave (mmWave) — a technology T-Mobile’s CTO says won’t make it beyond urban borders.
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The HomePod could offer support for Siri with multiple users in the future without worrying about a user’s personal data being accessed, with Apple coming up with a method to authenticate the speaker is authorized to make potentially sensitive queries using the presence of a nearby iPhone.
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Over the last month, a UK tabloid and the Medium blogging platform helped launch a wave of articles later syndicated by Yahoo and other clickbait sites implying that large group of scientists were very concerned about the health risks of AirPods. The problem: the petition was signed in early 2015, before AirPods were even announced. Its concerns were not linked to the extremely weak Bluetooth Low Energy protocol that AirPods use.
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An unknown number of users are currently unable to buy new apps or download updates because of a bug in Apple’s iOS App Store. The store prompts users to accept new terms and conditions, but then loops back around to asking the same thing again.
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The threat of malware has increased for Mac users in a short space of time, a report from Malwarebytes claims, with detected threats up by more than 60% from the fourth quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019, and adware becoming more prevalent with an increase of over 200% for the same period.
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In a claimed effort to streamline operations, Intel recently shaved “several dozen” people from its roster of employees working on autonomous vehicles at the company’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center in Palo Alto.
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Popular Chinese video sharing app TikTok is again available on India’s app stores, ending a week-long, court-ordered ban that restricted downloads of the title in its largest growth market.
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Facebook is preparing to pay a record-setting fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations following the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, as the social network is earmarking $3 billion to go towards its expenses and a potential $5 billion fine, depending on how it negotiates with the regulator.
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