Apple on Friday debuted a new ad for the iPhone XS Max, “Growth Spurt,” once again dwelling on the theme of size in marketing the XS line’s flagship.

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The iPhone will not be subjected to an import ban to the United States, a judge for the U.S International Trade Commission presiding over the patent row between Apple and Qualcomm, despite determining Apple has likely infringed one of three Qualcomm patents at the center of the case.

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AppleInsider goes hands-on with a first look of Waze’s popular navigation app running in Apple CarPlay — complete with incident reports and police alerts.

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An unusual headstone has been discovered in a Russian cemetery that takes the form of a giant iPhone, a 5-foot tall recreation of the popular smartphone bearing an image of the deceased on the display.

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Facebook on Friday revealed that it recently uncovered a major security breach impacting close to 50 million users, which could result in the user’s account being stolen by the thieves.

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An open letter from the interim CEO of Intel advises some progress is being made for its 10-nanometer processors, but volume production of chips using the process will still wait until 2019, alongside a notice of $1 billion in 14-nanometer production investments and a warning it will also be prioritizing production of high-performance chips over processors for entry-level devices.

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A new estimate suggests that Google will end up paying in excess of $9 billion to stay the default search tool in Apple’s Safari browser this year, and possibly far more in 2019.

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Of the major additions to this year’s iPhone lineup, Apple paid closest attention to the camera, with changes like a larger sensor on the wide angle lenser, a brand new depth control feature and Smart HDR functionality. This all amounts to a tangible upgrade in video quality over iPhone X.

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A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday granted Apple’s request to dismiss $234 million in damages previously won by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, awarded for violating a processor patent.

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Apple is working to solve complaints about excessive smoothing in photos shot with the iPhone XS front-facing camera, which can make images seem fake or even out of focus.

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