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Tim Cook dismisses notion of being able to purchase Apple products with cryptocurrency

Albeit cryptocurrency is receiving a huge push both in availability and credibility these days, it looks like you won’t be able to purchase Apple products with it any time soon. Over at the Dealbook conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the idea that Apple will accept cryptocurrency for products. He also said the company would […]

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Apple expands bug bounty program, offers rewards for bugs located across all of its operating systems

Apple on Friday announced that the company has officially opened its bug bounty program to all security researchers. This follow announcements at this year’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that Apple would be expanding the program later in the year. Prior to this, the program was invitation-based and non-iOS devices were not included […]

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Updated Google Assistant demoed, features faster processing speeds via on-device processing

This is pretty interesting. Over at the Google I/O conference, Google demonstrated an upgraded version of Google Assistant that will respond to user queries more quickly by performing processing on the device. The next generation of the virtual assistant will be able to switch between apps and help with multitasking in Android than for previous […]

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Apple publishes searchable archive of WWDC 2017 session videos, reminds developers of forthcoming 64-bit app creation requirement

If you couldn’t make WWDC this year, the videos are now available. Apple has released searchable transcripts of its entire catalog of the Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 videos, the company also reminding developers to migrate to 64-bit app creation for its next-gen operating systems. Announced through Apple’s developer portal, the company transcribed each of the […]

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Google Assistant app released for iOS

The Google Assistant app has come to iOS. Google announced the release of its Assistant app for iOS at its I/O developer conference today. The virtual assistant will arrive soon as a standalone app for iPhone, initially for users in the US. Previously the Siri competitor was only available through its Allo messaging app and […]