Apple this week made a pair of moves designed to shore up its legal footing in the ongoing battle with the FBI, formally objecting to the Central District of California’s order to unlock the San Bernardino iPhone and bringing that court’s attention to the pro-Apple decision handed down in New York on Monday.
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DxO on Tuesday announced an immediate price drop for its DxO One iPhone camera, along with an update to the hardware’s companion iPhone app, introducing several new features.
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A new poll of merchant processing partners has found that Apple Pay is by far the most desired tap-to-pay method, easily exceeding demand for rival services like Android Pay, PayPal and Samsung Pay.
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Speaking to shareholders at the company’s Annual Meeting on Friday, Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook joked that he kept himself up to date on the progress of his Campus 2 “Spaceship” project by watching drone videos posted on the Internet. For Cook and everyone else that’s interested, here’s the latest progress update on Apple’s new innovation center.
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In a follow-up interview to her appearance at Tuesday’s RSA security conference, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the FBI is not asking Apple to break into an iPhone linked to last year’s San Bernardino shootings, it only wants the company to disable built-in security safeguards.
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Almost one year after IBM announced Watson Health Cloud, a cognitive computing platform built in partnership with Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic, the computing giant on Tuesday debuted SleepHealth, an app and ResearchKit study investigating the connection between sleep habits and health.
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At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday meant to shed light on the contentious encryption debate, Apple’s legal chief Bruce Sewell toed the company line with privacy rights and slippery slope arguments. He added, however, that America is the only country asking Apple to break its encryption amidst a wider cold war between tech industry players and nefarious agents.
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Apple recently leased a 96,000-square-foot warehouse in Sunnyvale, Calif., last used by Pepsi as a bottling plant in a move that grows the company’s presence in an area previously tied to work on Project Titan, colloquially known as the “Apple Car.”
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As part of testimony related to the ongoing San Bernardino iPhone encryption debate, Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell on Tuesday told members of the House Judiciary Committee that the company offered technical assistance to investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after the plane was declared missing in 2014.
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As promised, beta testers can once again use the Apple Pencil to navigate on iPad Pro with the latest build of iOS 9.3, with functionality restored before the software is released to the public.
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