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If you aren’t using Siri Shortcuts, you’re not taking full advantage of Apple’s native digital assistant. While the platform is far from perfect, it can seriously upgrade Siri’s ability to streamline and perform a wide variety of tasks — which can be…

Spring cleaning season is here, which means that many of us are probably looking for clever ways to streamline and organize our lives. Whether you’ve just seen Tidying Up with Marie Kondo or you’re trying to adopt a more minimalist lifestyle, there are…

A virtual private network (VPN) is a security service that creates what’s essentially a “tunnel” for your data to travel to and from its destination. While in the tunnel, your data is heavily encrypted, so that no one can see what it is. VPNs are…

Listening to music is undoubtedly one of the most popular ways to use a smart home speaker – but what if you don’t subscribe to any premium streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music? Well, there are now some free options available. This week, Amazon…

With Earth Day fast approaching this coming Monday, Apple has been emphasizing its focus on the various environmental initiatives it’s working on, last week announcing new supplier commitments to clean energy, the expansion of its global recycling programs,…

The Samsung Galaxy Fold has a serious problem. And we’re not just talking about the fact that they may very well break after just a few days of usage. No, one of the biggest issues with the Galaxy Fold is its price tag. If $1,000 for a smartphone is steep,…

Apple’s iPhone was the most popular smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter of the year, despite a downturn in sales and a saturated smartphone market. The iPhone outsold the most popular Android manufacturers, including Samsung, LG and Motorola,…

Facebook stored way more Instagram passwords in a readable plaintext format than it initially thought, the company announced on Thursday. Last month, the social media firm admitted that it stored “hundreds of millions” of user account passwords in…

Apple and Qualcomm this week put an end to the bitter legal battle between them. But for Apple, the settlement didn’t come for free. In fact, Apple likely paid between $5 and $6 billion to Qualcomm to settle the ongoing litigation, according to a UBS note to…

Apple’s capitulation to Qualcomm this week is an obvious signal that it’s going to need the behemoth chip-maker’s 5G modem chips if it wants to produce a 5G iPhone in the near future, despite its efforts to develop its own 5G modem in-house. In fact, the…

Samsung this week started sending out test units of its Galaxy Fold to reviewers for hands-on testing. After just a couple of days, some of those reviewers have run into major problems with the device. Several early reviewers who are testing the new folding…

Apple has been hit with a class action lawsuit that claims the company committed securities fraud by not being forthcoming about negative information concerning its iPhone sales. The lawsuit, which was filed by the City of Roseville employees’ retirement…

A massive “malvertising” campaign is targeting iPhone users by exploiting a vulnerability in the Chrome for iOS browser. “Malvertising,” short for malicious advertising, is essentially a technique in which a bad actor leverages legitimate web…

T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that it is working with Apple and other smartphone makers to bring new anti-robocalling tools to its customers. The Uncarrier is relying on the “SHAKEN (Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) and STIR (Secure Telephony…

Not long after the shocking news broke yesterday that Apple and Qualcomm have signed an armistice in their long-standing war over patents and royalties, Intel entered the fray with its own surprise announcement that it plans to exit the 5G modem chip business…

Apple and Qualcomm have settled their tortuous legal battle. That could have major implications for Apple’s 5G iPhone. The two companies announced on Tuesday that they’ve reached an agreement to “dismiss all litigation between (them) worldwide.” That…

Apple frequently deals with bugs in their software. But a new report says the Cupertino tech giant is also dealing with actual bugs at one of their stores. The massive, brick-and-mortar Apple Store located on 5th Avenue in New York has apparently been crawling…

If you find yourself suddenly unable to unlock your car with your key fob, your second-generation Apple Pencil may be to blame. Last week, Apple quietly updated one of its Apple Pencil support documents to warn users about the issue. The update was first…

Apple’s premium News+ service has been a source of controversy among publishers since even before it launched last month. Apple struggled to close deals with at least some major publishers in time for the launch, and The New York Times rather vocally chose…

Apple already has a pretty wide array of original content ready to go for this fall; the company has been working on a number of shows for almost two years now, although most of the content thus far has been in the fiction category, and in fact it wasn’t…

Android versus iPhone is a matter of personal preference — but also a source of contention and debate in the tech ecosystem. Now, even criminals are taking sides. According to a local media report out of the Miami area, two men were arrested after they…

It can be tough to find an Apple Watch at a great price, particularly if you’re looking at a Series 4 model or a specific configuration. But there are actually several great deals on Apple Watch Series 4 and Apple Watch Series 3 models spread across the web…

Apple TV+ is coming. But at this point, we know so little about the platform that it’s hard to tell whether it’ll end up being a successful streaming service or a gimmick, however Apple needs it to be the former as hardware sales wane. That’s why Apple…

While the ECG and other heart monitoring features on the Apple Watch seem to get the lion’s share of credit for saving lives, the Apple Watch Series 4 boasts another very important sensor that’s often overlooked: fall detection. It was this feature that…