As a result, Apple has asked its Taiwanese suppliers to strictly comply with Chinese customs regulations while transporting goods from Taiwan to China to avoid them from being fined or rejected. The Cupertino tech giant told suppliers that China “has started strictly enforcing a long-standing rule that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as being made either in “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, according to a report from Nikkei Asia citing sources familiar with the matter....

Now, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the iPhone, Apple Marketing Chief Greg Joswaik has called Samsung smartphones a “poor copy” of the iPhone in a recently released documentary made by The Wall Street Journal (via MacRumors). The first Apple iPhone had gone on sale on June 29, 2007. The 21-minute documentary features journalist Joanna Stern interviewing current and former Apple executives, including Joswiak, and looks back at the 15 years journey of the iPhone....

iOS 12.1 software update for iPhone, iPad brings Group FaceTime, eSIM Support, Real-Time Depth Control and moreGroup FaceTimeDual SIM supportDepth Control in CameraNew EmojisOther Improvements and Fixes Group FaceTime With iOS 12.1, Group FaceTime is easy to use. Chat with more people than ever before. It adds support for video and audio calls with up to 32 participants at one time, with new camera effect features like filters, stickers, Animoji, and Memoji included....

Breaking its silence on the security concerns reviewed in Google’s report and to curb speculation the extent of the vulnerability, Apple, via an official press release, said that the scale of the attack was far smaller than Google implied. The Cupertino giant said that “the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused, not a broad-based exploit of iPhones ‘en masse’ as described,” by Google researchers. “The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community....

“The Dutch antitrust authority has found that Apple’s rules requiring software developers to use its in-app payment system are anti-competitive and ordered it to make changes,” reads the report. For a long, app developers have been complaining against Apple’s app store payment policy that requires them to pay 15% to 30% commission to exclusively use its payment system. The Dutch investigation first started in 2019 after a series of complaints from dating market apps including Match Group, owner of the Tinder app, and many other dating apps....

While Breath may seem like a manna from the heaven for millions of stressed netizens it is eerily similar to a App called ‘My Breathe’ developed by Ben Erez. Erez claimed that Apple is actually stealing his idea, and the app that will soon be available for all users updating to watchOS 3 is actually a clone of his app already available in the store. What lends credence to Erez’s claims is that Apple is calling its new feature as Breathe, just like his existing app, which he says, is because the two are extremely similar and provide the same functionality....

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in his latest research note has predicted that the second-generation iPhone X line-up for 2018 will include an iPhone X successor, a less-expensive model than the X, and a new plus-sized model. Both the 6.5-inch version (iPhone X Plus) and a new 5.8-inch model (cheaper than the iPhone X) will use OLED screen technology just like the one in the iPhone X. Since OLED panels make the iPhones more expensive, Apple will launch a 6....

The all-new MacBook Air has a strikingly thin, light, and fan-less design, which integrates its components so efficiently that it results in an astonishing 20 percent reduction in volume. The laptop measures just 11.3 mm thin and is only 2.7 pounds. It features a durable, all-aluminum unibody enclosure that feels incredibly solid and is built to last. Further, the new MacBook Air features a slightly larger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display (2560 x 1664 resolution) with up to 500 nits of brightness, making it 25 percent brighter than before....

In the video above, evolutionary biologist, Darren Curnoe from UNSW Science explains how the human races were described at the sudden idea of scientists to make nature easier to pigeon hole. In order to fit people into their already prepared races, they used almost anything as evidence such as skull shape, IQ and eye colour, to different dialects spoken and cultural differences. Anything that could be used to connect people from the same geographic origins together was utilized....

In July details of more than 37 m accounts were stolen from the website, whose tagline is: “Life is short. Have an affair.” The company is now being sued for emotional stress and Canadian police are investigating links between the hack and two suicides. The company said that Biderman’s resignation was “in the best interest of the company and allows us to continue to provide support to our members and dedicated employees” and that it remained “steadfast in our commitment to our customer base” “We are actively adjusting to the attack on our business and members’ privacy by criminals,” the company wrote, saying that it would remain in business....

According to the Daily Dot, leaked emails from the Ashley Madison hack last week show that Avid Life Media, the adultery site’s parent company, was working on a an app called ‘What’s Your Wife Worth’ around 2013 that allowed men to rate each other’s wives out of 10 and attach dollars to a woman so they could exactly see her ‘worth’. It’s somewhat similar to other attractiveness-rating sites, just put under a more intolerable concept....

Called the ‘VivoStick’, this is Asus’ answer for Intel’s Compute Stick. It’s a PC that runs Windows 10, which can be carried in your pocket. Just to remind, the Compute Stick form factor is the x86 version of the popular ARM-based HDMI sticks. The first generation x86 Compute Stick came from Intel and used a Bay Trail-T SoC. In spite of looking like an oversized thumb drive, the unit was actively cooled....

“With little effort, a scammer could send you alerts that look just like the real thing. Click on a link and the hacker will grab your login credentials — or fool you into giving up your credit card too,” Pagliery reports. “It’s yet another phishing scheme. But instead of email, hackers can target you with texts.” “The problem stems from AT&T not making its real alerts look legitimate enough,” said Dani Grant, the computer programmer who noticed the flaw....

A leaked string from the WhatsApp developers group revealed that soon WhatsApp will integrate with the Google Drive to form a back up for the chat history and the media files; in turn this will facilitate easy restoration of these files from Google Drive. The leaked report also states that back of media does not include the back up and restoration of videos. It seems the data back up on Google Drive is possible either through Wi-Fi or through cellular network only....

That’s where the new and improved BearTek Gen II smart gloves enters offering additional features. By just using simple finger movements, this pair of ordinary looking gloves can remotely control your smartphone. The user has to simply touch spots on the gloves to trigger specific actions rather than touching the phone itself. This is BearTek’s second generation lineup, and it comes in different styles for different users. Depending on the models, connectivity is over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi....

The alleged hack which comes a year after the infamous Mt.Gox debacle has further aggravated the already frustrated bitcoin community. UK- and Slovenia-based bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has stated that it is currently offline and has put up a notice on its website that only one of its ‘operational wallets’ was compromised on 4th January. The company has assured users that all their bitcoins lying in the cold storage are secure....

According to security researcher Brian Krebs, criminals are threatening to expose users to their significant others, unless a payment of exactly 1.0000001 BTC ($232 USD) is paid into their bitcoin wallets. This particular extortionist has not been particularly successful, only receiving 0.0032 BTC since last Wednesday’s leaks. Reports claim that someone may have actually killed himself as a result of the massive Ashley Madison hack that has resulted in user emails and other details getting leaked out and published on the Dark Web....

Security researchers from Denmark-based TDC Security Operations Center have dubbed the new attack technique BlackNurse. BlackNurse attack uses very limited resources to knock large servers offline when they’re protected by certain firewalls made by Cisco Systems and other manufacturers. The BlackNurse attack makes it easier for cyber criminals to mount a simple denial-of-service attack against a website using as little as 15 megabits, or about 40,000 packets per second, to sever the Internet connection of vulnerable servers....

The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition started shipping to early adopters at the end of first week of April. However, as of April 18, 2016, Canonical is happy to announce that the pre-order period has ended, and anyone can now purchase the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. “Last month we announced that the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet was available as a pre-order bundle. This time round, we’re pleased to let you know that it’s available to buy now,” said Amrisha Prashar, Marketing and Social Media Manager at Canonical....

“Is the investment in higher executive incentives paying off in terms of long-term shareholder returns?” a senior corporate governance researcher at MSCI asked. “The finding so far is clearly not.” The study found that for every $100 (£76) invested in companies with the highest-paid CEOs would have increased to $265 (£202) over a decade. However, the same amount invested in the companies with the lowest-paid CEOs would have increased to $367 (£279) over 10 years....