Apple is starting to remove apps from the App Store in China that integrate with CallKit, in response to moves by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to enforce cybersecurity regulations.

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An app meant to let parents monitor the phone activity of teenagers was until recently saving the latter’s Apple ID passwords in unprotected plaintext form, a report revealed on Sunday.

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We’ve spent a few months with Logitech’s flagship smart home security camera that gained support for HomeKit just last fall. After extensive usage, we have the verdict on one of the most popular HomeKit cams yet.

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Apple’s ARKit made a public debut at WWDC 2017 and was later released with iOS 11, enabling any iOS device with an A9 or newer processor to run augmented reality games and apps. Like clockwork, Google introduced a competing product in ARCore for devices running Android. We take a closer at the respective AR platforms in this video.

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New apps and updates to existing software appear in the App Store and other digital marketplaces all the time, and sometimes there’s simply too many to track. AppleInsider has collected together some of the main macOS and iOS software updates and new additions that have arrived in the last week.

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Lawyers in the — maybe — final Apple v. Samsung trial presented their respective closing arguments on Friday, with Apple fighting to persuade jurors that Samsung’s infringement of two utility and three design patents is worth more than $1 billion. Samsung argues it should pay $28 million, at most.

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Apple’s legal battles with Samsung and the European Union roared back to life this week. The company also hit a new milestone with Apple Music, and we took a second look at the iPhone X — a gamble on the future of smartphones.

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Apple this week reinstated product financing alternatives, as well as an informational webpage detailing such purchases, for UK customers shopping on the company’s online storefront after such options were made temporarily unavailable.

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Apple authorized resellers are slashing prices this weekend on popular 2017 MacBook Pros and iMacs. Save up to $450 on current models and up to $1,200 on closeout configs with instant and coupon discounts, along with 0% financing OAC and no sales tax collected in most states.

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If you’re into its style, the Philips Hue Wellner lamp can be a decent way to way to expand an existing Hue setup, but it’s not much good to people who haven’t invested — or plan to invest — in the ecosystem.

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