Home security cameras are great for monitoring your property, but when you go outdoors, a lack of electrical hookups can make it difficult to get a camera right where you want it. For the past several months, I’ve been using the Wyze Cam Outdoor system to solve that problem, and thanks to recent improvements, the Google Assistant integration has finally reached the point where it’s a useful…
Reddit for iOS was quietly updated to version 2021.13.0, and it dropped support for iOS 12. With this change, people with iPhone 6, iPad mini 3, iPad Air, or older will have to use the web version of Reddit.
As first spotted by MacRumors, aside from that, this new version…
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…
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 estimated to be earning a million dollars a month.
Eleftheriou highlights six eye-opening aspects of the app, which not only…
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…
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, and that’s because its design is basically identical to Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Active series. Is that a bad thing? Not…
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…
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 right here.
Bookmark this link to make sure you don’t miss the keynote session starting at 8:30 am PDT on April 12 with…
