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Updated Touch ID hardware to provide more secure, reliable Apple Pay experience

The Touch ID hardware is about to get better. A report from well-connected insider Ming-Chi Kuo released on Tuesday stated that Apple’s new Touch ID model will improve the Apple Pay experience with fewer reading errors. Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities, projects that Touch ID module shipments will grow 12.4 percent this year to […]

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Apple panics GoPro stock price with recently-released wearable camera patent

Wearable camera maker GoPro’s stocks took a 12 percent dive yesterday as a result of Apple expressing an interest in its market. Per Macworld and PatentlyApple, an Apple patent application for a wearable camera was approved, the end result sending GoPro’s stock price tumbling. The application itself details a GoPro-like wearable perfect for action shots […]

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Apple patent explores Gorilla Glass 4, “fall sensor” for next-gen iPhone

Gorilla Glass 4 and a new motion sensor might be the thing that saves your iOS devices from nicks, dents and scratches in the future. Per Macworld and Forbes, Apple has recently published a patent that covers a “protective mechanism for an electronic device” that would use a motion sensor to tell the processor when […]

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Blackberry suing Typo Products over keyboard design

In the litigious world of  tech companies who scramble daily to protect their patents and intellectual property, you can expect anything claiming to be new and innovative to be hit by a roomful of lawyers saying it isn’t true. Such is the case with the Typo Keyboard case which was getting ready to launch at […]

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Rumor: Next-gen iPhone to see 31% speed improvement via A7 chip, will feature motion detection

If this report’s anything close to accurate, you’re going to like the speed of the next-gen iPhone. Per a tweet sent by Fox News and citing inside sources, Clayton Morris claims the so-called “iPhone 5S” will be powered by an Apple-designed “A7” system on a chip that is some 31 percent faster than the current […]