After moving to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to produce chips for its latest mobile devices and reduce reliance on competitor Samsung, Recode reports that Apple is tapping Samsung for its next-gen A9 chips. While Apple had hoped to rely more heavily on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to fabricate the Ax family of processors used in its iOS devices, the company has turned to Samsung for its next-generation A9 chip, according to people with knowledge of the situation…....

You’ll find the first notable discount on Apple AirPods plus highlights from Best Buy’s new 48-hour sale and more in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Hit the jump for all of the best offers from 9to5Toys. Latest Apple AirPods on sale from $140 at Costco Take up to $399 off Apple’s latest MacBook Pros Jump into mesh Wi-Fi with 25% off Linksys Velop Is your Wi-Fi currently under duress? All of those devices have your connection grinding to a halt?...

Apple has silently updated the Apple AirPods firmware to version 3.5.1, from 3.3.1, earlier today. The AirPods automatically update to the latest software when the earbuds are charging in the AirPods Case and close to a paired device. The new firmware does not appear to contain any new front-facing features. There is no onscreen alert or notification that an update has taken place. You can however verify if your AirPods are up-to-date by checking the AirPods firmware version number in Settings on an iPhone …...

Apple and Cloudflare have jointly developed a new Internet protocol designed to protect your privacy, by preventing your internet service provider (ISP) from seeing which websites you visit. Currently, when you enter a web address into your browser, that address is passed to a Domain Name Server (DNS) which looks up the domain name in order to convert it to the numerical IP address needed to connect to it …...

The first devices to get the update, according to the post, are the UMTS/GSM Nexus S, the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus devices, as well as Motorola’s Xoom Wi-Fi tablet. This leaves the LTE versions of the Nexus and Nexus S out of the loop on this update for now. They’re both running 4.0 at the moment. If you don’t have one of these tablets, don’t despair. Google has promised that more devices will get the update soon....

Rovio has finally released the long-awaited sequel to the original Angry Birds hit mobile game. Since the first title saw phenomenal success on the iOS App Store, the game has gone on to amazing heights with tons of spinoffs. With several official movie tie-ins, including the popular Star Wars titles, Angry Birds is the ultimate success story of the mobile app world. And now, Angry Birds 2 is available to download....

Ellen Barkin makes it clear she’s the boss of the Cody crime family in the new trailer for season 4 of TNT’s Animal Kingdom. The series has been a reliable hit for the cable network over the past three years, offering viewers a little appointment television for the summertime. With its crime-centric narrative, twisty plots, and dramatic storytelling, the American adaption of David Michôd’s 2010 Australian film of the same name has managed to move well past the misgivings of potentially skeptical audiences to deliver a crime series that rivals Sons of Anarchy....

Since partnering in 2014 to develop enterprise iOS apps under the “MobileFirst for iOS” banner, Apple and IBM have rolled out over 30 apps for various industries. Today the two companies introduced their first MobileFirst education app. The new iPad app, IBM Watson Element for Educators, offers insights on students to teachers, including: “data on interests, accomplishments, academic performance, attendance, behaviors and learning activities.” When Apple and IBM first announced the partnership, the companies had plans to develop 100 enterprise apps and cloud services, while IBM also started pushing and supporting Apple devices alongside specialized AppleCare plans....

Apple has opened a Trailer Showtimes site today that uses browser location settings both on desktop and mobile devices to deliver showtimes. You’ll be prompted to let the browser access your GPS information, whether that is your geo-located IP or your device’s dedicated GPS. This not only works on iOS devices but works on other mobile platforms as well and provides a slick way to navigate movies, especially when integrated with Apple’s high-definition trailers sites....

Frictional Games, the studio behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma, appear to be teasing a new project on their website. The company hasn’t released a new game since 2015’s Soma. Frictional Games is known for creating creepy atmospheric games that leave the player feeling helpless against the untold horrors thrown at them. Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson launched Frictional Games on January 1, 2007 and by March released their first title, Penumbra: Overture....

The concern for authorization came under consideration to companies when different changes regarding the use of content, application, data and personal information over mobile devices are introduced to different device’s platforms like the iPhone and Android in 2008. With these changes, the organizations started to worry about the access control strategy and techniques, that who can access and control the information on the device. For that many different strategies have been adopted that somehow to some extent are successful....

Apple is due to report its fiscal Q4 (calendar Q3) earnings later today, and Wall Street analysts expect the company to report revenue bang in the middle of the company’s guidance. Perhaps reflecting the fact that it was difficult even for Apple to judge how many people would buy the iPhone 8 in September versus holding out for the iPhone X, the company gave unusually wide guidance this time around …...

Data from Mixpanel indicates that sales of this year’s flagship iPhone X quickly overtook both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus, but not the two combined. Using analytics data captured from apps that use Mixpanel’s software developer kit, the firm was able to see that the iPhone X now makes up 4.76% of all iPhone users. This puts it ahead of the iPhone 8 Plus at 3.59% …...

Infinix Hot 10i launched in the Philippines with a dual rear camera setup and is powered by the MediaTek Helio P65 SoC. It packs a large 6,000mAh battery and runs on Android 11. In this tutorial, we will guide you to install Android 12 Custom ROM on Infinix Hot 10i. Full credits to the XDA Recognized Developer phhusson for making this possible. The update is still in the beta stage and you may counter bugs or unusable....

Less than a month after a critical Flash vulnerability allowed an attacker to take control of a Mac, Adobe has issued an emergency update for yet another critical flaw. The latest one is already being exploited by ransomware that encrypts Windows PCs, but while there’s no known exploit for OS X as yet, Adobe says that the same vulnerability exists on all platforms, and users should update immediately … Apple often blocks vulnerable versions of Flash in Safari, but as that takes time, it’s best not to rely on this....

Keri Russell plays a teacher who discovers one of her students is hiding a terrifying secret in the trailer for Scott Cooper’s horror movie Antlers. This is the first time the acclaimed storyteller has tried his hand at the horror genre, having previously worked on films like the musician drama Crazy Heart and crime biography Black Mass. However, he’s joined behind the camera by a pair of experts in the field here - namely, Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca and Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who served as a cowriter and producer, respectively....

Users of 16 popular iOS and Android apps claim that they would be willing to pay a monthly subscription for popular apps if there was no longer a free version. WhatsApp was the one most users would rather pay for than give up, while YouTube was the app for which they’d be willing to pay the highest subscription fee… The McGuffin survey of 2,000 consumers found that a massive 89% of WhatsApp users would pay a monthly subscription if the messaging service were no longer available for free....

Apple’s generous returns policy is one of its real strengths, giving new customers the confidence to buy an expensive product in the knowledge that they can return it for a full refund within 14 days for any reason or no reason at all. But a change introduced today adopts a far stricter approach in Hong Kong … The change noted on the website for the Hong Kong store says that it will not allow exchange or refund unless the product is defective....

On the day of the annual Academy Awards ceremony, Apple has begun airing a new iPad Air advertisement highlighting how the tablet is used in the filmmaking industry. The new video advertisement is narrated with excerpts from notable movie director Martin Scorsese’s 2014 commencement speech at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. The video, embedded below, is accompanied by a website highlighting specific stories of the iPad being used to make movies....

An analyst report today reiterates claims that the OLED iPhone 8 launch could be significantly delayed compared to the debut of the ‘7s’ models, which represent more modest improvements over the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. Rosenblatt believes that whilst all three new iPhones will be announced on September 12th at the event, the iPhone 8 release date could be as far out as late October, citing production issues with the stainless steel metal frame....