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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s not easy operating in a world where “fake news” has become a term. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in between tours of schools and meetings with developers in a trip to Britain, commented about the scourge of fake news in comments to The Telegraph. Cook, who pointed to false stories that spread like wildfire across […]