This could lead to something really nifty for your Mac notebook. Last summer, Intel announced 3D Xpoint, a new class of memory labeled as a “major breakthrough in memory process technology.” 3D Xpoint is 1,000 times faster and more durable than NAND Flash storage, as well as 10 times denser than the DRAM chips used […]
Month: March 2016
Give it enough time and eventually Apple catches up to the rumors. Apple has announced a special event for members of the press at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 21st, at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino. The event will be streamed via apple.com and can be accessed from any Mac running OS X 10.8.5 or […]
For California smartphone users, this hits pretty close to home. Assembly Bill 1681, a California State Assembly bill, would ban default encryption on all smartphones. The bill, introduced in January by Assemblymember Jim Cooper, would require any smartphone sold in California “to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating […]
This is probably the next step in the escalating war between Apple and the Justice Department. The Justice Department on Thursday issued a statement claiming Apple’s rhetoric of privacy protection in the San Bernadino iPhone 5c unlocking case to be “false”. Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a court order requiring Apple to […]
The data onboard the iPhone 5c at the heart of the decryption/unlocking scandal could be accessible via a hardware technique. This hardware technique, apparently, isn’t for the faint of heart. In recent days, the American Civil Liberties Union’s technology fellow and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have suggested a method that would let investigators repeatedly […]