Apple cannot unlock an iPhone for government investigators “in most cases now and in the future,” lawyers for the company said in a brief submitted to a U.S. District Court, while acknowledging it had some access to the phone at the heart of a Justice Department case.
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Facebook officially launched its Instant Article platform on Tuesday, initially making it available exclusively to users of the company’s iPhone app, and with a relatively small number of American publishers on board.
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Apple on Tuesday added streaming options for the last two of the “big four” U.S. broadcast networks — CBS and NBC — to the Apple TV lineup, as well as an entirely new, exclusive fashion channel dubbed M2M.
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Apple on Tuesday added 75 more U.S. financial institutions to the list supporting Apple Pay, most notably HSBC, which until now was only supported in its U.K. homeland.
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Fitness gear maker Polar on Tuesday annoucned a new fitness tracker, the A360, which offers features like a color touchscreen, a heart rate monitor, and iPhone notifications.
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1Password makers AgileBits have promised to change one of the default file formats in the software in response to a blog post by Microsoft engineer Dale Myers, who revealed that an AgileKeychain file was displaying unencrypted metadata.
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Chinese mobile advertiser Youmi on Tuesday offered “sincere apologies” for supplying an SDK to developers that contained data-collecting private APIs in violation of App Store rules.
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Less than four months after it launched, Apple Music already has 6.5 million paid subscribers, or nearly a third of the 20 million who pay for Spotify, a service that has been around since 2008, investment firm FBR & Co. said on Tuesday.
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Apple on Tuesday was granted patent rights to an all-purpose docking solution for iPad and embedded sensor technology that could one day lead to an iPhone capable of informing its user of changes in temperature and humidity.
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This week AI-readers can grab a fully-loaded 11″ MacBook Air (1.70GHz/8GB/512GB) for $999 ($650 off), or purchase the same MacBook Air with AppleCare for $1,089 ($809 off), plus get a free Microsoft comfort mouse and LG super drive thrown in for free. Also, 27″ and 34″ displays from $479 to $720.
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