SpinOk Android malware found in more apps with 30 million installs
How to tell friends you got home safe with iPhone’s new Check In feature
AirPods noise cancellation is about to become a lot smarter
Apple and Disney partner for Apple Vision Pro Disney+ day-one launch
Why millions of useable hard drives are being destroyed
Apple WWDC 2023: Apple previews new accessibility features, including a way to clone your voice | Engadget
SpinOk Android malware found in more apps with 30 million installs
The SpinOk malware was found in a new batch of Android apps on Google Play, reportedly installed an additional 30 million times. The finding comes from CloudSEK’s security team, who report finding a set of 193 apps carrying the malicious SDK, 43 of which were active...
How to tell friends you got home safe with iPhone’s new Check In feature
Making sure loved ones got home safe at the end of the night is something we all try to do. But it can be easy for that “Home safe! 😙” message to be missed or forgotten. Apple’s new Check In feature for iPhones is a simple, ingenious way to alert your friends or...
AirPods noise cancellation is about to become a lot smarter
At WWDC 2023 today, Apple announced a surprising raft of new features coming to AirPods and AirPods Pro. These revolve around the ability to have your headphones adapt automatically to the sounds around you and adjust noise cancellation or transparency features to...
Apple and Disney partner for Apple Vision Pro Disney+ day-one launch
Disney CEO Bob Iger made a surprise appearance during the WWDC keynote to announce that the Disney+ app will launch on Apple Vision Pro with 3D interactive experiences from "Star Wars" and National Geographic — and more. The new Apple Vision Pro headset needs apps at...
Why millions of useable hard drives are being destroyed
Millions of storage devices are being shredded each year, even though they could be reused. "You don't need an engineering degree to understand that's a bad thing," says Jonmichael Hands. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI), a...
Apple WWDC 2023: Apple previews new accessibility features, including a way to clone your voice | Engadget
Apple gave a look at its latest accessibility and health updates during its annual WWDC on Monday, including new voice and and assistive tech features. Initially previewed for Global Accessibility Awareness Day in May, the WWDC announcement confirmed that the new...
Apple WWDC 2023: Safari gets major privacy updates and the ability to put web apps in your dock | Engadget
Safari might not be the most exciting part of macOS, but Apple isn't giving its web browser the cold shoulder. The latest version includes a number of useful improvements, including better privacy controls, encryption features, and the ability to create "apps" from...
iOS 17’s New Journal App Uses AI to Suggest What to Write About
A new journaling app is coming to iPhones later this year, Apple said at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The app, simply called Journal, is coming to iOS 17, the next version of Apple's mobile software. The app uses on-device machine learning to create...
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access the site’s APIs. Setting a subreddit to private,...
iOS 17 Lets You Share AirTags With Others
iOS 17 introduces a much-requested AirTag feature, the option to share an AirTag with another person. Since launch, AirTags have only been able to be owned and used by a single person, but that's changing in the iOS 17 update. In the Find My app, you can select an...
Apple dropping ‘Hey’ from ‘Hey Siri’ in iOS 17
Apple is dropping "Hey" from "Hey Siri," and allowing users to provide multiple commands without needing to summon the assistant repeatedly. During the WWDC event on Monday, Apple announced that it will now use the shortened phrase "Siri" instead of the previous...
tvOS 17 Lets You Use Your iPhone to Find a Lost Siri Remote
Prior to the launch of the latest Apple TV 4K, there were rumors that Apple planned to build Find My functionality into the Siri Remote to make it easier to find. That never happened, but Apple is introducing a similar location function for the Siri Remote in tvOS...