Categories
Legal News

Net neutrality preservation effort passes House vote, unlikely to go further, could become political lightning rod for November elections

The vote went as expected, but odds are it won’t go further than the senate. On Wednesday, U.S. Senate Democrats voted 52 to 47 in favor of undoing the Federal Communications Commission’s “Restoring Internet Freedom” order, which ended Obama-era net neutrality protections. The measure passed with a better margin than expected, with three Republicans and […]

Categories
Hardware iMac iMac Pro MacBook MacBook Air MacBook Pro News retail Touch Bar

B&H Photo hosts extensive sales on MacBooks, iMacs, iMac Pros

The cool cats at B&H Photo are holding a variety of sales on an assortment of Apple products, including MacBooks, MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, iMacs and iMac Pros. The nifty savings are as follows: 2017 13.3-inch MacBook Air 1.8 GHz, 128GB SSD with 8GB RAM ($799, down from $999) 1.8 GHz, 256GB SSD with 8GB […]

Categories
Face ID Hardware iPhone News Patents

Apple patent highlights future Face ID technique that could scan blood vessels in a user’s face, allow for more accurate identification

This could be interesting. As Apple’s Face ID continues to be developed, it’s been revealed that the company has explored the possibility of scanning the pattern of veins in a user’s face as another form of biometric authentication, one that could potentially tell identical twins apart. On Tuesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office […]

Categories
Hardware MacBook MacBook Pro News

Frustrated MacBook/MacBook Pro users can now join class action suit against Apple regarding 2015, 2016, 2017 MacBook, MacBook Pro keyboard failures

If you’re in the mood for litigation, here you go. Following up on our previous story about the model year 2015 and 2016 MacBook Pro notebook keyboards failing, complete with the only way to fix the keyboard being to replace the top case/keyboard mechanism and potentially facing yet another failed keyboard, a number of Apple […]

Categories
Hacks iOS News security Software

Security researchers warn of PGP, S/MIME encryption vulnerabilities in Apple Mail, other email clients

This might keep Apple’s security teams for a few night working on a patch. A group of vulnerabilities discovered in PGP and S/MIME that could allow an attacker to read emails encrypted using the standards, with one attack potentially allowing for a message to be decrypted by abusing a flaw in the way Mail for […]