Apple’s self-driving car project looks to be developing a device location system for vehicles. Per Patently Apple, a recently-published patent related to Apple’s ongoing Project Titan effort discusses a mobile device location system that’s in the works: In this Project Titan granted patent, Apple notes that passengers in vehicles may carry mobile devices into the […]
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This’ll make you groan a bit. Following last year’s findings as to how easy it was for outside parties to buy real-time location data of US wireless customers via lax carrier standards, it was noted that data was winding up in the hands of shady third-parties, and bounty hunters. Now, after what it described as […]
Fantastical is nifty. And it’s been updated of late. Fantastical, which functions as a hyper-powered calendar, can be activated with either a single click or keystroke. The application features a natural-language engine, allowing you to write in your own style. Other cool features include a location engine that locate the user and allow you to […]
Over on the mobile end of things, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 13.3.1 updates on Tuesday. The updates offer the following fixes and changes: Fixes an issue in Communication Limits that could allow a contact to be added without entering the Screen Time passcode. Adds a setting to control the use of location services by […]
If you were looking for some benchmarks as to T-Mobile’s newly-launched 5G network, the cool cats at Venturebeat have some numbers for you. During testing, the low-band 5G downloads peaked at 227Mbps, or two to four times faster than T-Mobile’s LTE service at the same locations, and far higher than the aforementioned 20 percent estimate. […]