GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Microsoft today filed a legal document backing Epic Games’ request to prevent Apple from cutting off support for its Unreal Engine. Ten days ago, Epic Games changed its iOS Fortnite app to allow players to make direct …
Read More »GamesBeat Decides 159: Epic vs. Apple, Halo delay, and NPD
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now GamesBeat Decides is here once again to shout that you’ve activated Tim Sweeney’s trap card. That’s right, Epic pulled some Yu-Gi-Oh moves on Apple and Google this week, and now we all have to choose the billion- …
Read More »China’s Xiao-i sues Apple for $1.43 billion over Siri AI infringement
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now (Reuters) — Chinese artificial intelligence company Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology, also known as Xiao-i, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging it has infringed on Xiao-i’s patents. Xiao-i is calling for 10 billion yuan …
Read More »Antitrust experts weigh in on breaking up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Gary Reback is perhaps best known as the lawyer who helped convince the U.S. Department of Justice to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s. He watched the majority of the House Judiciary …
Read More »Apple hints at several week iPhone 12 delay during Q3 2020 call
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Apple’s fiscal third quarter 2020 was another one for the record books, surpassing analysts’ expectations despite pandemic-related fears of a global recession. But the next quarter might not be as rosy as its predecessors, Apple …
Read More »Researcher reveals Mac privacy bug, blasts Apple for ‘security theater’
When Apple announced its Security Bounty Program last year, researchers lined up to locate potentially dangerous bugs in the company’s platforms, keeping them secret in exchange for potentially large payouts. But after developer Jeff Johnson told Apple about a zero-day exploit that gives malicious actors access to a Safari user’s private …
Read More »Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2020
Apple’s first virtual developer conference is now well under way, and as usual the Cupertino company kicked things off with a handful of announcements that will impact the developer community in some shape or form, spanning both the software and hardware spheres. Here’s a brief recap of all the major …
Read More »Apple accuses U.S. of ‘false claims’ on Pensacola terror investigation
A long-running dispute between Apple and the U.S. government regarding the company’s cooperation with law enforcement officials deepened today, as the two sides exchanged accusations regarding their respective roles in the 2019 Pensacola, Florida naval air station terror attack investigation. Following an announcement by Attorney General William Barr suggesting that …
Read More »This Apple Editor’s Choice award-winning app makes working with PDFs simple
As any working professional will tell you — PDFs, or Adobe’s portable document format, is now the standard among numerous industries. When it comes to viewing, editing, signing, and sharing documents, PDFs are likely involved. They’re super simple to send and receive through email, unfortunately doing anything more, e.g., signing …
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