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Google, Amazon, eBay and others drop Apple Watch support for some of their apps

It’s been a quiet trend, but it’s still worth noting. Over the last few months, a number of companies, including Google, Amazon and eBay have pulled some of their Apple Watch apps from the App Store. The programs, namely Google Maps, Amazon and eBay, were all early supporters of the Apple Watch and released apps […]

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Apple Maps update, now includes EV charging stations, bicycle rental and dropoff points for EU, New York

It’s a quiet update, but this could be useful. Apple on Wednesday updated its Apple Maps data, including EV charging stations and bicycle rental/dropoff points, focusing most of its expanded coverage in Europe. For U.K. users, electric car drivers can now locate charging stations via data from Moovility. The public bicycle information currently covers London […]

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Rumor: Apple said to be among corporations bidding to acquire Toshiba’s NAND unit

Apple may just be in a bidding war for Toshiba’s NAND memory unit. A report from the Korean Herald states that Apple, Amazon, Google and others are in a war for Toshiba’s NAND memory division, which accounts for 20 percent of the NAND market. There are reported to be 10 bidders in total, although specific […]

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Apple joins Google, other tech companies in resisting ‘troubling’ FBI search warrant

Apple has joined Amazon and Microsoft in a court filing which supports Google’s decision to resist an FBI warrant demanding that it hand over emails stored outside the USA. The tech companies argue that this would set a ‘troubling’ precedent. As reported, the FBI served search warrants ordering Google to surrender emails belonging to suspects […]

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WikiLeaks releases 8,700+ CIA-related documents, show agency efforts towards hacking Android systems, iPhones, operating systems and smart TVs

This is pretty much one for the ages. WikiLeaks has released more than 8,700 documents that have apparently originated from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, with some of the leaks saying the agency had 24 “weaponized” and previously undisclosed exploits for the Android operating system as of 2016. Some of the Android-specific exploits were […]