After months of rumours surrounding what accessories the new iPhones would (or would not) come with out of the box, Apple, in today's launch event, confirmed that the new iPhone 12 lineup will ship with a USB-C to Lightning cable as the only accessory. Apparently because of "environmental impact", Apple has done away with the...
As reported by the CBC News, journalists working for Marketplace recently conducted an investigation into where Amazon Canada returns ultimately end up and what kind of effect they have on the environment. As part of the investigation, Marketplace journalists bought one dozen items from Amazon including, but not limited to, a backpack, some toys, a printer,...
A British Columbia Supreme Court ruling published on October 6 upheld and validated the ruling of a lower court on a case in which a Vancouver resident, Patrick Henry Grzelak, was convicted of distracted driving for having two earbuds in his ear that were connected to his phone, which was stashed away in the “centre...
According to The Telegraph, Apple's upcoming line of iPhones could be in trouble in the U.K. if the devices do not support the 700MHz 5G band. Rumoured to be called the iPhone 12, Apple is all set to reveal the latest and greatest iPhone in a special event streamed online on October 13. Apple sent out...
In Episode 107 of its radio podcast, Hodinkee invited Vice President of Human Interface Design at Apple Alan Dye, and Apple enthusiasts John Gruber and Om Malik to talk about the latest Apple Watches. Apple revealed the Apple Watch Series 6 and the Apple Watch SE only a few weeks ago and was met with a stellar...
According to The Verge, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers ruled in favour of Epic Games on an injunction designed to keep opponent Apple from retaliating, in any way, against Unreal Engine — the widely popular game development engine also owned by Epic Games — on Friday, October 9. The injunction permanently restrains Apple from aiming Unreal Engine's...
As part of hearings and deliberations to determine whether tech companies like Apple have monopolies, encrypted email service ProtonMail revealed to Congress that it, like WordPress, was made to add in-app purchases (IAP) to its previously completely free iOS app, reports The Verge. Comparing Apple's antics to those of a mafia protection racket in an interview...
According to the HRReporter, Canada's largest airline is all set to test out a new contact tracing technology for its employees that uses wearable devices and a Bluetooth-enabled app. TraceScan, the technology behind the app Air Canada will be testing, was designed locally in Canada — in collaboration with researchers from the University of Waterloo —...
There are changes coming to emojis due to the coronavirus pandemic it seems. Emojipedia reports Apple has made a small change to the mask-wearing emoji in iOS 14.2, the upcoming update to Apple's OS for iPhones, iPads, and iPods. In its latest iteration, the mask-wearing emoji now appears to be smiling. The mask-wearing emoji was...
On Saturday, what appears to be the first Geekbench 5 results for Apple's upcoming A14 Bionic chipset showed up online, shared by @UniverseIce. https://twitter.com/UniverseIce/status/1312230485343514626 The A14 Bionic is the latest and greatest in a long line of proprietary chipsets developed in-house by Apple that have consistently outperformed anything Qualcomm's Snapdragon or Samsung's Exynos chipsets have...
According to his Linus Gabriel Sebastian, the man behind the behemoth of a YouTube channel that is Linus Tech Tips, somehow came to be in possession of one of Apple's Developer Transition Kits without actually having a professional relationship of any kind with the tech giant. https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1311830376734576640 Apple released the Developer Transition Kit (or DTK)...
According to a Reddit thread and his Twitter feed, well-known security researcher and vulnerability sleuth Brandon Azad (previously of Google's Project Zero), will soon be joining the Apple Security team. https://twitter.com/_bazad/status/1312116414816239617 Project Zero is a band of security researchers at Google working to find, study, and disclose security vulnerabilities in both the hardware and the software used by the public...
