As much as you and I may love Apple’s AirPort routers, as of Thursday, they’re now on the company’s discontinued hardware list.

Late last week, Apple officially ceased development of its AirPort Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Express.

Apple has confirmed the move, wherein the company will continue to sell its remaining stock through the online and retail Apple store until supplies last.

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The current rumor has it that Apple is working on a headset that can run both AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality). The described plans call for an 8K display for each eye that would be untethered from a computer or smartphone, the anonymous source said.

The project, codenamed “T288”, is thought to be in its early stages but could be slated for a 2020 release.

Apple has dabbled in smaller VR projects, but the headset marks a major investment in VR, a tech that transports you into a different, digitally created world when you don bulky goggles. Once touted as the next hot tech trend, VR has failed to resonate with consumers despite heavy investment from companies like Facebook’s Oculus, Google and Samsung.

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Apple and Intel may eventually pull away from each other, but for the time being, the chipmaker is rumored to be the supplier for 70 percent of the modem chips that will be used in the 2018 iPhone lineup.

Per an anonymous source close to the story, Intel will provide 70 percent of the chips while Qualcomm will supply the remaining 30 percent.

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously suggested Intel might be Apple’s sole supplier for LTE modems in 2018 given Apple’s ongoing and increasingly tense legal battle with Qualcomm, while it’s also rumored that Apple might use Mediatek and Intel chips to avoid working with Qualcomm.

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Air conditioners may not be the most exciting thing in the world, but they come in handy.

Following up on the release of its AHP08LX HomeKit-compatible air conditioner, GE has announced that AEC08LX, AEC10AX, AEC12AX, and AHP10LX models all use GE’s WiFi Connect technology, allowing the air conditioners to work with Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and IFTTT, as well as Apple’s HomeKit.

While the product pages for these models don’t specifically mention HomeKit compatibility, GE stated that this functionality will work and that the company will be updating its online compatibility to reflect this.

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There’s a lot to be said for poking fun at your competitor via advertising.

Having been the target of assorted advertising from Google’s end, Apple just released two ads with digs at Android.

While they never mention Android by name in the first ad, the implication as to what platform is being teased is still there.

In the second ad, Apple wants you to believe that its Portrait Lighting feature — which uses the iPhone 8 Plus’ and iPhone X’s dual cameras to make professional-looking portraits — is coveted by those who pose for pictures in Android phones.

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They don’t address a monumental number of issues, but they do hone in on security.

Apple on Tuesday released its macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 Security Update 2018–001 fix. The update patches a few security holes, as detailed via the notes below.

According to the support document, a memory corruption issue in Crash Reporter and a spoofing issue with LinkPresentation are both fixed. The updates also include WebKit patches for Safari.

The update can be located by clicking the “Updates” tab in the App Store application.

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It helps to keep your proprietary source code same.

Grayshift, the firm responsible for the GrayKey iPhone hacking tool, has been targeted an extortionist after its product’s source code was inadvertently exposed to the internet last week.

An unknown third party seems to have stolen GrayKey’s source code and leaked part of it online. The pay included a message threatening to distribute more of GrayKey unless Grayshift places two Bitcoin, currently worth about $19,000, into a secure account.

The company confirmed the breach, but says no sensitive data was exposed in the incident.

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It’s not the largest update in the world, but it has some important fixes within it.

On Tuesday, Apple released its iOS 11.3.1 update. The update, a 44.5 megabyte download for the iPhone and a 33.5 megabyte download for the iPad, offers the following fixes and changes:

– iOS 11.3.1 improves the security of your iPhone or iPad and addresses an issue where touch input was unresponsive on some iPhone 8 devices because they were serviced with non-genuine replacement displays.

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It’s been some time coming.

GE has announced that its AHP08LX air conditioner is now available for purchase. The AHP08LX is GE’s first HomeKit-compatible unit and supports Alexa, Google Home products, and IFTTT in addition to being rated at 8,000 BTUs and Energy Star compliant.

The unit is also the first window air conditioner to be sold in the United States to support HomeKit.

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The future is en route to an Apple product near you.

And it’ll use a 7 nanometer manufacturing process when it gets here.

Chip producer TSMC is ramping up production of its next-gen “A12” processor, which uses 7nm process lines for the chips destined to power the 2018 iPhone models.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is about to start fulfilling orders for A12 processors using its 7-nanometer production process. The 7-nanometer chip would be the first A-series design to use the process, shrinking the die size down from the 10-nanometer process used to produce the A11 Bionic, used in the iPhone 8 and iPhone X.

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