iphone News of 01/16/21

Twitter Now Supports Hardware Security Keys For IPhones And Android

Twitter said Wednesday that accounts protected with a hardware security key can now log in from their iPhone or Android device. The social media giant rolled out support for hardware security keys in 2018, allowing users to add a physical security ...

AWS Brings The Mac Mini To Its Cloud

AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud image AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement : the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud. These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are now available in preview. They won’t come cheap, though. The ...

Apple On The Hook For €10m In Italy, Accused Of Misleading Users About IPhone Water Resistance

Apple’s marketing of iPhones as ‘water resistant’ without clarifying the limits of the feature and also having a warranty that excludes cover for damage by liquids has got the company into hot water in Italy. The Italian ...

Decrypted: Apple And Facebook’S Privacy Feud, Twitter Hires Mudge, Mysterious Zero-Days

Trump’s election denialism saw him retaliate in a way that isn’t just putting the remainder of his presidency in jeopardy, it’s already putting the next administration in harm’s way. In a stunning display of retaliation, ...

Neatsy Wants To Reduce Sneaker Returns With 3d Foot Scans

U.S.-based startup Neatsy AI is using the iPhone’s depth-sensing FaceID selfie camera as a foot scanner to capture 3D models for predicting a comfortable sneaker fit. Its app , currently soft launched for iOS but due to launch officially ...

Verizon Partners With Apple To Launch 5g Fleet Swap

Apple and Verizon today announced a new partnership that will make it easier for their business partners to go all-in on 5G. Fleet Swap, as the program is called, allows businesses to trade in their entire fleet of smartphones — no matter ...

Apple Embraces IOS 14 Home Screen Customization By Fixing How App Shortcuts Work

Apple is making a change to how app shortcuts work in the next release of the iOS 14 operating system. In iOS 14.3, beta 2, the Shortcuts app will now no longer open when you tap on an app shortcut on your iPhone’s home screen. That means ...

Charge, Please: Apple Will Pay $113m To Settle 34-State ‘Batterygate’ Lawsuit

Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to 34 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations that it broke consumer protection laws when it systematically downplayed widespread iPhone battery problems in 2016. This is in addition to the ...

Yeah, Apple’S m1 MacBook Pro Is Powerful, But It’S The Battery Life That Will Blow You Away

Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away image Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you’re learning the ropes, understanding systems. Then you have mid-game where you’re executing and gathering resources. The most fun part, for me, has always been ...

Apple’S IDFA Gets Targeted In Strategic EU Privacy Complaints

A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting — aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) — is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy ...

To Own An AR Future, Niantic Wants To Build A Smarter Map Of The World

Niantic is continuing to bet heavily on the idea that it knows where consumer computing is headed, namely towards augmented reality. The game development startup behind Pokémon Go has some good company with companies like Apple, Facebook ...

Apple Magsafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, But Expensive And Underwhelming 

Apple Magsafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, but expensive and underwhelming  image In addition to the new iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max, I was able to try out Apple’s new MagSafe Duo Charger. It’s a folding dual travel charger that will hold both an iPhone using MagSafe and an Apple Watch using its more traditional ...

Review: The IPhone 12 Pro Max Is Worth Its Handling Fee

Review: The iPhone 12 Pro Max is worth its handling fee image The iPhone 12 Pro Max is probably the easiest of all of the new iPhone 12 models to review. It’s huge and it has a really, really great camera. Probably one of the best cameras ever in a smartphone if not the best. For those of you coming from an ...

IPhone 12 Mini Review: Tiny Package, Big Bang

iPhone 12 mini Review: Tiny package, big bang image Reviewing the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max at the same time has been an exercise in extremes. I noted in my earlier reviews of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro that it was difficult to evaluate the middle of the lineup without having the ...

A Better Look At Apple’S IPhone 12 Pro Max And IPhone Mini

A better look at Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone Mini image The various iterations of the new iPhone were announced 800 million years ago. Actually, wait, I just double checked — it was only about two or so weeks ago, but it turns out that time has no meaning anymore. Another cursory glance at my calendar ...

Hands-On With Mophie’S New Modular Smartphone Battery Case

Hands-on with Mophie’s new modular smartphone battery case image There was some confusion when the Juice Pack Connect was announced last week. I admit I was a bit confused, too. It was, no doubt, the proximity to Apple’s iPhone 12 launch that lead many to (understandably) assume that the new take on Mophie’s ...

Decrypted: How Twitter Was Hacked, GitHub DMCA Backfires

One week to the U.S. presidential election and things are getting spicy. It’s not just the rhetoric — hackers are actively working to disrupt the election, officials have said, and last week they came with a concrete example and an unusually ...

Facebook Steps Into Cloud Gaming — And Another Feud With Apple

Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple image Facebook will soon be the latest tech giant to enter the world of cloud gaming. Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Facebook is not ...

This Week In Apps: Quibi Dies, Snapchat Soars, Halide Upgrades For IPhone 12

This Week in Apps: Quibi dies, Snapchat soars, Halide upgrades for iPhone 12 image Welcome back to This Week in  Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with  a record  204 billion downloads and $120 ...

Review: IPad Air, Smooth Criminal

Review: iPad Air, smooth criminal image The 2020 iPad Air comes at an interesting time in Apple’s release cycle. The iPad Pro is still strong from a specs perspective but is now technically a half generation or so behind in CPU. The new pro models won’t arrive for (theoretical) months. ...