The book currently topping the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list is The Anxious Generation, a jeremiad against social media and its impact on young people. Its thesis is that apps like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok have unleashed an epidemic of mental illness among children, preteens, and teenagers. Immediate and …
Read More »Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know
In April, Apple sent notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries, warning them they’d been targeted with spyware. “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID,” the notification reads. Users quickly took to …
Read More »How to Create and Customize Stickers with iOS 17
if there's any feature I've used the most with iOS 17, it's Stickers. The feature builds off of Visual Lookup in iOS 16, which gave you the ability to cut and copy a subject from a photo and then paste it into a conversation via Messages. Now, you can turn …
Read More »Why Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks
You just bought a new iPhone in Europe and finished setting it up. You’re excited to start planning a much-needed vacation, so you tap on the Safari browser to search for upcoming flights. Oh, you suddenly see a pop-up asking you to choose a default browser. You quickly scan the …
Read More »Apple Is Making It Slightly Easier to Repair Your iPhone
Apple will make it a little bit easier to get an iPhone fixed with used parts, marking a reversal of long-standing, strict rules around swapping out iPhone parts. The change, announced Thursday, will begin with “select” iPhone models this fall (The Washington Post reported it will cover iPhone 15 and …
Read More »How an iPhone Powered by Google’s Gemini AI Might Work
Apple and Google are reportedly in cahoots to integrate features from Google's Gemini generative AI service into iOS. Bloomberg broke the news, which was later corroborated by The New York Times. If the deal pans out, it will be a huge collaboration between two tech giants who have long duked …
Read More »The Apple Antitrust Case and the ‘Stigma’ of the Green Bubble
Back in 2022 at the annual Code Conference, where tech luminaries submit to onstage interviews, an audience member asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for some tech support. “I can’t send my mom certain videos,” he said; she used an Android device, which means she can't access Apple’s iMessage. Cook’s now-infamous …
Read More »7 Ways the Apple Antitrust Case Could Change Your iPhone
The US Department of Justice has targeted Apple’s alleged smartphone monopoly with its newly filed antitrust lawsuit. It accuses Apple of thwarting innovation, excluding competition, and locking customers into its walled garden. Get ready for a lengthy courtroom battle, and with pockets as deep as Apple’s, who knows what the …
Read More »Photography Is No Longer Evidence of Anything
For weeks now, the world has been awash in conspiracy theories spurred by weird artifacts in a photographic image of the missing Princess of Wales that she eventually admitted had been edited. Some of them got pretty crazy, ranging from a cover-up of Kate’s alleged death, to a theory that …
Read More »4 Internal Apple Emails That Helped the DOJ Build Its Case
Apple uses the dominance of the iPhone to illegally suppress competition in ways that harm consumers, the US Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday. Apple has denied it acts illegally, with spokesperson Fred Sainz saying that the suit “threatens who we are and the principles that set …
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