[su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]he FBI announced on Monday it has successfully used a mysterious technique without Apple Inc.’s help to hack into the iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, effectively ending a pitched court battle between the Obama administration and one of the world’s leading technology companies, AP report. The government asked a federal […]
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SOME Apple engineers say that they’d rather quit than help the government break security measures that Apple has placed on iPhones and iPads. Inside Apple, engineers have already discussed who would and who wouldn’t build “GovtOS,” the software the FBI has gone to court to compel the company to create, according to The New York […]
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As the battle between Apple and the FBI continues, the iPhone maker’s software chief, Craig Federighi, is weighing in on a fight that he says has the potential to “turn back the clock to a less-secure time and less-secure technologies.” In an opinion piece published Sunday in the Washington Post, Federighi said the FBI has […]
Read More THE Apple CEO reiterated his position on the company’s legal fight with the FBI during its annual shareholder meeting on Friday. “We do these because these are the right things to do,” Cook said. “We are a staunch advocate of privacy.” Cook hadn’t said anything publicly about the dispute since his interview with ABC’s David Muir […]
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Syed Rizwan Farooq and wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people last December at San Bernardino, California before they were shot dead. An iPhone was recovered from scene. But investigators don’t know the passcode and have failed to access phone data. 1. It’s tough to break into an iPhone Each iPhone has an encryption key (a […]
Read More CLOSELY half of Americans support Apple’s decision to oppose a federal court order demanding that it unlock a smartphone used by San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook, according to a national online Reuters/Ipsos poll. Forty-six percent of respondents said they agreed with Apple’s position, 35% said they disagreed and 20% said they did not know, according […]
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BILL Gates has insisted that Apple should help out the FBI by accessing and sharing the information on the phone used in the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, with Microsoft man believing this is a ‘particular case.’ Apple has argued that, even in a single case, it would amount to letting the genie out of the […]
Read More APPLE CEO Tim Cook said in an email to employees Monday that the US government should withdraw its demand that Apple help the FBI hack a locked iPhone used by a shooter in last year’s deadly shooting in San Bernardino, California. Apple is resisting US government demands that it unlock an iPhone used by Rizwan […]
Read More Apple’s iMessage handles an absurd amount of messages: sometimes as many as 200,000 per second, according to Apple services boss Eddy Cue. The stat was revealed during a podcast with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber published on Friday. “The scale for this is truly amazing because of the usage, I mean [people] rely on these [services] […]
Read More Apple has announced a new addition and a major update to its family of music-making apps for iOS. An all-new app called Music Memos lets musicians and songwriters quickly capture, organise and develop their musical ideas right on their iPhone. And a major update to its free music creation app GarageBand introduces multiple new features, […]
Read More APPLE is known for being one of the most challenging and exciting places to work, so it’s not surprising to learn that getting a job there is no easy task. Like Google and other big tech companies, Apple asks both technical questions based on your past work experience and some mind-boggling puzzles. Indiatimes While some […]
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