Because iOS features can sometimes be a good thing. A group of 10 teenage hikers who spent last Friday night lost was located by a search and rescue team with the help of Apple’s Emergency SOS feature. Members of the group — who are all 16 to 18 years old — spent about three hours […]
Snapdragon’s latest chip could help prevent spoofing and privacy invasion. Per an article from PCMag, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip features anti-spoofing technology to help protect against Stingray and spoofing attacks: Spoof cell sites can now be run on small, widely available boxes that pass bad data and phishing messages, Qualcomm said at its […]
Apple’s next-gen iPhone batteries are said to be in production, with the overall capacity increasing about six percent this year. Apple is said to still be purchasing batteries form Chinese supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology, with the component said to have an increased capacity from the current model that adds nearly six percent more power. CATLis […]
There are times when a battery catastrophically fails within a product. This apparently occurred for Josh Hillard, an Ohio-based iPhone XS Max owner, whose handset reportedly caught fire and exploded on December 12th. Hillard, who reported that around 3 PM of that day, he noticed a smell and felt a “large amount of heat” and […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of privacy-based concerns on Friday, states that a warrant is required to get cell phone tower location data from carriers. The 5-4 ruling was in a case called Carpenter v. United States, and is thought to be a core ruling that could have sweeping repercussions for decades to […]