During a call with investors for its Q4 2015 earnings report today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company saw its highest rate ever of Android switchers last quarter with a record 30% of new iPhone buyers coming from the rival platform. Apple reported sales of 48 million iPhone units for the quarter, which would mean around 14.4 million Android switchers in the last three months. Cook noted that the switcher number comes from those who purchased an iPhone last quarter and also upgraded from a smartphone....

Fortune is out with its latest Global 500 today ranking the world’s largest 500 companies by revenue and Apple has once again landed at #15 on the list. Apple comes in behind #1 Wal-mart, a long list of petroleum companies, Volkswagen, Toyota, and #13 Samsung. After a bumpy start to 2014, Apple’s stock finished the year up 40%, adding nearly $200 billion to the company’s market value. A product pipeline that’s gotten Apple fanboys lining up all over again has certainly helped reenergize revenue growth: In addition to unveiling new categories like Apple Pay and Apple Watch, the company launched the iPhone 6, selling a record-breaking 10 million units in the first three days....

Apple and Google introduced a new COVID-19 Exposure Notification API in May this year, which allows public health authorities to offer apps that can alert users when they have been exposed to the virus. The API is now getting more improvements to allow more flexibility in how the data obtained by these apps is managed and more. The update to the COVID-19 Exposure Notification API was announced by Google today and it includes a number of changes to make exposure notifications even more capable and flexible....

Apple last month debuted the Apple Watch Series 3, bringing support for cellular connectivity to its wearable for the first time. Despite early reviews that highlighted some since-fixed connectivity issues, a new analyst note from GBH Insights says the Apple Watch Series 3 is a hit among consumers thus far… The note, written by Daniel Ives and obtained by CNBC, explains that the Apple Watch Series 3 is garnering “significant momentum” in its short life of availability....

A furious fan has destroyed his PlayStation 4 in protest of Sony’s promotion of Genshin Impact at Chinese gaming expo ChinaJoy. The game was first revealed for PC and smartphones at E3, but it was only recently announced that Genshin Impact is coming to PS4 as well. Genshin Impact and its developer MiHoYo have been under siege by angry commentators ever since the game was first shown. Genshin Impact is overtly inspired by Nintendo’s masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which launched on Switch and Wii U only two years ago....

Apollo for Reddit is one of the most powerful and popular third-party Reddit apps for iOS, and a new update this weekend takes makes further improvements. The update brings improvements to media viewing, new app icons, iPadOS cursor support, and more. Version 1.8 of Apollo for Reddit makes numerous improvements to the media viewing experience. For instance, videos now play inline in the feed, while you can also now pause GIFs and much more:...

The Caesar Methodology The Types of Cryptographic Attacks Polyalphabetic Encryption Block Ciphers Initialization Vectors Cipher Block Chaining In this article, we continue with the theme of Cryptography, with an emphasis on the keys and the Key Distribution Center (also known as the “KDC”). This article covers the following topics: The Disadvantages of Symmetric Key Cryptography The Key Distribution Center The Mathematical Algorithms Associated with Symmetric Cryptography Conclusions – The Hashing Function....

Barclays really seems to think that Apple will struggle to persuade people to pay $1000+ for the iPhone 8. After last week making the far-fetched claim that the price is so high it would persuade iPhone owners to switch to Samsung, it’s now suggesting Apple might need to bribe people to buy the phone … Business Insider reported on the latest out-there suggestion. Although it’s true that some iPhone owners are balking at the four-figure price, the likely reality is that Apple will be struggling to meet demand for the radical new design....

PCMag is out today with its annual mobile networks report. The report tests the four biggest networks in the United States to find out which one is actually the fastest carrier. This year’s results show a tight race for the first three spots, and a distant fourth place. Over the past 10 years, the results of PCMag’s annual test has flip-flopped between Verizon and AT&T. This year, AT&T has come out on top, earning an overall score of 97, compared to Verizon at 94, T-Mobile at 91, and Sprint at 82....

Allegations that Apple is engaging in anti-competitive practices in the run-up to the launch of its rebranded Beats streaming music service are now being investigated by the Department of Justice, according to “multiple sources” cited by The Verge. The claim is that Apple has been attempting to use its influence to persuade music labels to pull out of deals with free, ad-supported services like Spotify and YouTube in order to reduce competition and increase demand for its own paid service....

American Horror Story season 9 is officially titled 1984, according to a teaser released by series creator Ryan Murphy. After season 8 saw the return of fan-favorite characters, the upcoming installment is expected to go in a new direction. The FX horror anthology series is already renewed for a season 10 set for a 2020 debut. Murphy tends to use the same set of core cast members for each installment of American Horror Story, despite the fact that the theme and plot differ each season....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is at last coming soon, and Nintendo is celebrating with an adorable Animal Crossing edition of the Nintendo Switch console. This latest special edition of the base model Switch is by far the best-looking yet, joining the handsome Pokémon: Sword and Shield-edition Switch Lite at the top of Nintendo’s more stylish offerings. If any first-party Nintendo fanbase deserves a new special edition console, it’s Animal Crossing fans....

Security firm Check Point says in a recent Mobile Security Report that 40% of mobile devices are prone to cyber-attacks. In 2019 alone, 76% of all cyberattacks were financially motivated. Combine those two facts, and you’ll realize that your phone could be the gateway a criminal uses to steal your money. Think about it: Our phones and tablets go with us everywhere, so they have way more personal data than laptops....

Apple has announced today that it is unable to ship the AirPower charging mat and have cancelled the project, via TechCrunch. In a statement from Dan Riccio, Apple apologized to customers that had been waiting for the product to come out. The AirPower mat was originally announced in September 2017 alongside the iPhone X. Apple was silent on the project for a year and a half, and today confirmed that AirPower is cancelled....

For example, the email id always needs to be in a format of username@site.domain; if someone enters just the username in the email id, then ideally the validation should fail. So validation looks at doing these basic checks before the details are sent to the server for further processing. In this tutorial, you will learn- Form validation using HTML5 Form validation using $dirty, $valid, $invalid, $pristine Form validation using AngularJS Auto Validate User feedback with Ladda buttons...

Animal Kingdom is definitely one TV show that’s surprisingly flown under the radar. From TNT, this show just finished its fourth season. With Finn Cole (from Peaky Blinders), Ellen Barkin, and Jake Weary, this show follows a family in Los Angeles as they plan and execute robberies. This show has all the family drama, heist intensity, and crime goodness you could ever ask for in a TV show. So before we get the fifth season, we thought we’d make a list of the 10 best episodes so far....

Marvel is all geared up for a busy few years. Not only is their television arm continuing to turn out new shows, but they’ve got a number of movies on the horizon. This year, they’ll be releasing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in May, followed by Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok later this year. 2018 will also see the studio release three films, starting with Black Panther before the heroes join forces to take down Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War next summer....

Shachar Menashe, senior director of security research at JFrog, told ZDNet that even though these new vulnerabilities do not affect Apache Cassandra default installations where User Defined Functions (UDFs) are disabled, many Cassandra configurations enable them, causing the instance to be vulnerable to an RCE or DoS attack. “We recommend looking at your Cassandra configuration and – if UDFs are enabled – take the appropriate steps to remediate,” Menashe said....

After the success of Apex Legends as a free-to-play online battle royale-hero shooter video game in the market for multiple platforms, Respawn Entertainment & Electronic Arts has recently released the Apex Legends Mobile game. It’s set in the Apex Legends universe with characters, squad battles, fast-paced combat, and more. Meanwhile, some Apex Legends Mobile players are facing the specific Error Code 214 while trying to log into the game. If you’re also one of the victims to encounter the same issue then you can follow this troubleshooting guide completely....

Sensor Tower last week estimated Q3 App Store revenue at $19B, up 31% year-on-year. App Annie is now out with its own data and estimates a somewhat more conservative 20% growth to $18B. Both agree on two key points, however … That the quarter was an all-time record, and that the coronavirus helped drive demand as consumers sought increased entertainment options on their devices while so many outside entertainment venues are closed or restricted....