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Rumor: Fully-functional Lightning-enabled EarPods may have been leaked

These may be the real McCoy where the long-fabled Lightning-enabled EarPods are concerned. After a series of fakes were found online, MobileFun posted a video of a working pair of Lightning EarPods, and the overall look of the accessory appears more in line with Apple’s design than any of the previous leaks. The structure features […]

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Rumor: Apple shifting TV efforts towards creating overarching guide, looks to make others’ content easily accessible

Apple seems to have shifted gears from wanting to make an ultimate TV for you to telling you what’s on TV and helping you watch it. The company has apparently started talking to TV programmers and other video companies about creating a digital TV guide that would work on both Apple TV boxes and other […]

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Apple to launch Bug Bounty program, will pay up to $200,000 to hackers, cryptographers and researchers depending on bugs found

Ok, this is pretty neat. Yesterday at the Black Hat conference, an annual event designed for the global InfoSec community, Apple’s head of security engineering Ivan Krstic announced the launch of a bug bounty program that will see Apple paying money to individuals who discover major bugs and security flaws in the company’s software. Many […]

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Leaked pictures show alleged, fully-assembled next-gen iPhone, test software

This might just be the real McCoy. A series of leaked pictures show what might be a fully assembled “iPhone 7,” with the shots showing a functional device that may have Apple’s hardware pre-release “Switchboard” toolset installed. The pictures came from a China-based team that specializes in mobile device repair. Some applications are shown on […]

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Rumor: Next-gen iPhone to receive 3GB of RAM

The next-gen iPhone could carry 3GB of RAM. That’s the current rumor, as cited by noted KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Increasing built-in memory capacity at next-generation smartphones, including new iPhone devices, will further ramp up demand for memory products in the third quarter, said sources, noting that the mobile DRAM capacity of the next-generation […]