Apple Passeig de Gracia store in Spain Spain has become the latest country to accuse Apple of possible anticompetitive actions concerning alleged unfair treatment of developers on the App Store. Rather than following a specific complaint, as is typically the cause of an investigation, this one was "initiated ex officio, given the relevance of the…
Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we've seen the introduction of space-efficient DDR5 CAMM2s, their LPDDR5-based counterpart the LPCAMM2, and the high-clockspeed optimized CUDIMM. But…
Images created by Microsoft's Copilot While AI is under attack from copying existing works without permission, the industry could end up getting into more legal trouble over trademarks. The rise in interest in generative AI has also led to an increase in complaints about the technology. Along with the complaints that the AI can often…
Apple releases fourth developers betas for iOS 18 and the rest Last updated 16 minutes ago Apple's now on its fourth round of developer betas for its fall operating system updates, with new builds of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2 now available Round four arrives after an…
iOS 17 Apple is now on its fifth round of current-generation operating system builds, including release candidates for iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6. Developers taking part in Apple's beta program can download the new builds to an Apple Developer Centeror by updating their iPhone or iPad already running the betas via the Settings app. Public…
Choosing the "Pistol" emoji on Twitter/X now again gets you a gun instead of a water pistol Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol. The existence of any particular emoji is down to the Unicode Consortium and…
Lake Vrangla now available to all Apple Vision Pro users Lake Vrangla is a foggy new environment available in visionOS, beta or not, and is found near Oslo, Norway, in the real world. Bora Bora debuted in the first visionOS 2 beta, and now we have Lake Vrangla. However, it arrived as a server-side push…
Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams has been seen in Chinese state media photographs, meeting with senior officials in the country. In May 2024, Jeff Williams went on what's been described as a secret visit to TSMC in Taiwan. It was secret in that neither Apple nor it chip…
Mumbai, India India is cutting back its import duty on iPhones and also selected iPhone components, meaning it will cost Apple less to bring in completed phones, and to make new ones locally. At least one reason that Apple even began producing iPhones in India was because locally-made devices have avoided the country's 20% import…