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Owners of an iPhone XS: Is it worth upgrading to the iPhone 11 Pro? Apple just announced the first iPhone with a Pro name. But is it really that much better than the iPhone XS? Apple for the first time is offering customers refurbished iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max ...

Survey: 17.7% of Americans learned about encryption watching Mr. Robot The survey also offers fascinating insights into whether people think the FBI should have an encryption backdoor. Attorney General William Barr has called on Apple to help the FBI beat the password-protection system used on all iPhones to access data ...

Image: Google Last April, Google announced that users could use the chips inside their Android smartphones as a de-facto security key for their Google accounts. Starting this week, Google has expanded this feature to iPhones. Google users will be to register their iPhone as a two-factor (2FA) method for their ...

Myths and (one) truth about iPhone Lightning cables Makers of third-party Lightning cables for iPhones keep pushing falsehoods to try to dupe people into buying their cables. Read more: https://zd.net/2IF5IF8 European lawmakers want to require smartphone manufacturers to provide a common charger for all mobile phones. Members of the ...

iPhone battery issues are, by far, the most common iPhone issues I come across. While it’s true that batteries are consumable items, and as such will wear out over time, many times the problem with the iPhone is not the battery but an app, or maybe even the charger. Must ...

iPhones and iPads are, out of the box, quite robust and secure platforms. But with a few tweaks you can harden that security dramatically without adding too much burden to your day-to-day usage of the device. #1: It all starts with a really good, strong passcode It all starts with ...

The Nomad Base Station Pro. Nomad The first time I attended the International Consumer Electronics Show, in 2010, I remember reaching the top of the escalator and seeing a giant display just outside the showroom for the Qi wireless charging standard. There were countless devices placed on wireless charging devices, ...

Apple has streamlined its entire iPad lineup to replace your laptop ZDNet’s Jason Cipriani tells Karen Roby that the base-model iPad is more capable than ever thanks to a recent update. Read more: https://zd.net/2NdaomS Two years after Apple ditched Imagination, the UK chip designer powering iPhones and iPads, the Cupertino ...

Image: NCA A 22-year-old man was sentenced today in London for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, during which the suspect and co-conspirators threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts and factory reset 250 million iPhones and iPads. The man, Kerem Albayrak, was sentenced today to a two-year suspended jail ...

Image: Laurenz Heymann Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program today to all security researchers, after announcing the move earlier this year in August at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Until today, Apple ran an invitation-based bug bounty program for selected security researchers only and was ...