In a bit of unfortunate news for employees and neighborhood residents, Apple has shuttered its Northlake Mall Apple Store locaiton in Charlotte, North Carolina, after multiple shootings in the area. According to Bloomberg, employees were informed that the location would be shutting down immediately, even though it was open on Wednesday morning. Apple’s website stated […]
Don’t expect to see a rifle emoji anytime soon. Unicode, the technical organization in charge of selecting and overseeing emojis, debated and ultimately decided to remove a rifle from its list of new emoji candidates in 2016, according to multiple persons who attended its quarterly meeting last May. The decision was led and championed by […]
When in doubt, go to the Israelis for help. The so-far unnamed third party that’s helping the FBI try to unlock the iPhone 5c linked to the San Bernadino shootings is Cellebrite, a mobile forensics company based in Israel. The FBI has reportedly contacted Cellebrite to help break the encryption on the infamous iPhone according […]
Apple’s cryptography fight could go all the way to the tippy top. Following tim Cook’s reply to the court order instructing the company to assist the FBI in breaking into an iPhone left any room for doubt about Apple’s determination to fight the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, that doubt appears […]