iOS 11 has a clever way to keep creepy apps from constantly tracking your location
With iOS 11, Apple is taking a more hard-line stance when it comes to background apps intent on tracking a user’s location. For starters, iOS …
Yoni Heisler has been writing about Apple and the tech industry at large with over 15 years of experience. A life long expert Mac user and Apple expert, his writing has appeared in Edible Apple, Network World, MacLife, Macworld UK, and TUAW.
When not analyzing the latest happenings with Apple, Yoni enjoys catching Improv shows in Chicago, playing soccer, and cultivating new TV show addictions.
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This past fall, Samsung was forced to dig itself out of one of the biggest tech controversies in history. In what was nothing short of …
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iOS 11 Maps has an awesome virtual reality feature no one is talking about
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Amazon Echo Show review roundup: Amazon may have another hit on its hands
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The $60 NES Classic Edition was one of the hottest gifts last year during the holiday season, and it remained in short supply in the …
Facebook wants to join the party and develop original TV shows
One of the more high-profile battlegrounds amongst tech giants these days, oddly enough, doesn’t even involve technology. On the contrary, a number of tech behemoths …
Watch a security developer exact sweet revenge on IRS scammers
Over the past few years, one of the more prevalent and successful scams going around has involved individuals posing as IRS agents and demanding payment …
The iPhone 8 could have more than one game-changing feature
With the iPhone 8 reveal (fingers crossed) just three months away, it’s no secret that most people are excited about the device’s rumored edge-to-edge display. …
MacBooks really aren’t safe from malware any more
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Watch a Tesla Model X pass the infamous ‘moose test’
Earlier this month, Tesla’s Model X became the safest SUV ever created when it attained a 5-star crash rating across every category after being put …
WannaCry ransomware is still alive, and it just forced Honda to close one of its plants
Just over a month ago, a nasty piece of ransomware called “WannaCry” began infecting PCs all across the world at an alarming rate. Based off …
Flood of iPhone 8 case leaks appear to confirm Apple’s final design
Given the influx of leaked iPhone 8 cases and schematics we’ve seen over the past few weeks alone, it’s probably fair to say that we …
Tesla is interested in constructing a Gigafactory in China
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If you can’t wait for iOS 11, new ‘Holo’ app gives us a taste of what’s to come
On a surface level, many of the iOS 11 announcements Apple made at WWDC this year were of little to no interest to mainstream consumers. …
Over 1,000 Uber employees want Travis Kalanick back
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New photos show us what the final Model 3 design will probably look like
Tesla’s final Model 3 unveiling is set to take place next month, but an enterprising Redditor happened to spot a Model 3 charging at a …
How one bad conversation with a Microsoft exec drove Steve Jobs to make the iPhone
At this point in time, it’s well-established that Apple’s iPhone project was born out of the company’s work on a tablet. Steve Jobs confirmed this …
Augmented reality may take Apple’s stock price to new highs
Apple’s introduction of ARKit may very well prove to be a huge game changer. Not only have developers already put out a number of intriguing …
Former Apple engineer Chris Lattner leaves Tesla just six months after starting
Tesla has always been rather aggressive about poaching talented engineers from Apple. This past January, though, Tesla kicked things up a notch when it hired …
The iPhone 8’s signature feature might also cause months of delays, analyst claims
The controversy surrounding the iPhone 8’s fingerprint sensor simply refuses to die down. Just when we thought that Apple had figured out a way to embed …
Tesla is ‘actively talking’ about opening up its Supercharger network to other automakers
When the Model S was first released a few years ago, one of the biggest hurdles Tesla had to contend with centered on ‘range anxiety’, …
BASU to hand out free safety alarms to every college student in the U.S
With college students set to head back to school in about two months, a company called BASU recently announced that it will be giving away …
Model 3 battery production is already underway, Tesla CTO says
Tesla’s Gigafactory in Las Vegas is a crucial part of the company’s ambitious plan to manufacture more than 500,000 cars annually by 2018. Though Tesla’s …
Ikea’s using the iPhone’s AR kit to sell you even more furniture
One of the bigger announcements to come out of WWDC was Apple’s unveiling of ARKit. In one fell swoop, Apple dove head first into the …
Steve Jobs wanted the original iPhone to have a permanent ‘back button’ like Android
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Video: This iOS 11 mockup running on the iPhone 8 is blowing my mind
A few months ago, designer Vianney le Masne put together an absolutely stunning concept video depicting what Dark Mode on iOS 11 might look like. …
iPhone 8’s final design may have just been confirmed by a new screen protector leak
With WWDC now long behind us, the next big event on Apple’s schedule is the introduction of the highly anticipated iPhone 8. If history is …
Apple Music isn’t even close to catching up to Spotify
During Apple’s WWDC keynote last week, Tim Cook gleefully boasted that Apple Music now has more than 27 million subscribers. While that’s a respectable increase …
Think Siri is no match for Google Assistant? Watch this video showdown
Ahead of WWDC 2017, there were rumors indicating that Apple with iOS 11 was going to introduce a completely enhanced and revamped version of Siri. …
