Apple has debuted a new “A Day in the Life of Your Data” report today with updated details on its efforts to preserve user privacy. The new report focuses on the behind-the-scenes technology Apple uses to manage the impact on user privacy of targeted advertising. This comes ahead of this spring’s launch of App Tracking Transparency.
This marks the second version of Apple’s “A Day in…
Scam iOS apps latest: a VPN that charges $9.99/week, uses ‘Recommended by Apple’ pop-ups
April 7, 2021
FlickType and Fleksy founder Kosta Eleftheriou has been pretty busy over the past few months exposing scam iOS apps, some of them bringing in millions of dollars of revenue. The latest of these is a VPN app that is promoting itself as “recommended by Apple” and which is…
Tweetbot for iOS has received another notable update with version 6.1 now available on the App Store.
With this update, Tweetbot for iOS brings a redesigned video play with picture-in-picture support, a new set of custom icons, a high-contrast Light theme as well as a new…
Piper Sandler’s latest survey of more than 7,000 US teens shows that Gen Z loves Apple, as 88% of teens own an iPhone and 90% expect an iPhone to be their next phone. Both of these numbers are new all-time highs.
Last October, 86% of the teens said they owned an iPhone, with 89% saying they intended to purchase one.
In fact, it’s not only Gen Zs who are satisfied with Apple and the iPhone.
After years of customers asking OnePlus to make a smartwatch, they finally did. The OnePlus Watch is set to release later this month, and we’ve had the chance to spend a bit of hands-on time with the product.
At first glance, the OnePlus Watch may look a little familiar…
iOS 14 adoption surpasses 90% according to Mixpanel
April 7, 2021
Apple announced in December 2020 that 81% of iPhones introduced in the last four years were already running iOS 14, which is the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system. Now the analyst company Mixpanel says that iOS 14 adoption among iPhone and iPad users…
In June, Google appointed one senior vice president to oversee Search, Ads, and other big products. Prabhakar Raghavan today named new executives to lead Google Assistant and a handful of other teams.
The changes (via Search Engine Land) were announced internally this morning. Product and engineering for Google Assistant is now led by Sissie Hsiao, who has been at the company for 15 years and…
Catch NVIDIA GTC 21 live right here
April 7, 2021
This article is part of the VB Lab / NVIDIA GTC insight series.
GTC, the conference for AI innovators, developers, technologists, startups, and creatives, is offering over 1,500 sessions online this year. Running from April 12 – 16, 2021, the livestream is free to watch…
The encrypted communications app Signal is beginning to roll out the ability for some of its users to send money to one another with MobileCoin, according to Wired.
Cryptocurrency payments in Signal will be first available only to users in the UK using the iOS and Android…
Unlike other first-party apps, Google’s browser has historically followed a strict, publicized six-week release cycle. After going without updates for the past four months, a new version of Chrome for iPhone and iPad is rolling out now.
In February, Google started releasing new app updates on iOS again and the cadence resumed in earnest last month. Chrome, however, has been a bit behind and…
