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Following recent reports that Apple is working with manufacturers to realize its first passenger vehicle, top managers are leaving the division in droves.

Advanced Transport

It Sounds Like the Apple Car Is in Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the tech company's upcoming augmented reality glasses could become a surprisingly intrusive part of every day life.

Virtual Reality

The CEO of Apple Thinks People Will Use Augmented Reality for Something Absolutely Hilarious

By Victor Tangermann

According to the latest rumors, Apple's virtual reality headset will incredibly light, weighing in at less than 150 grams, less than an iPhone 12.

Virtual Reality

New Details Leak About Apple’s Virtual Reality Headset

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report by The Information, Apple working on a $3,000 ultra-high-resolution virtual reality headset with eye and hand tracking.

Virtual Reality

Details Leak on Apple’s Upcoming VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

After a study found that an iPhone can shut down an implantable defibrillator by being near it, Apple is recommending to keep it at least 6 inches away.

Prosthetics and Devices

Apple: Keep Your New iPhone At Least 6 Inches Away From Pacemaker

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study published last week, an iPhone 12 can interfere with a pacemaker just by placing one close to the patient's heart.

Prosthetics and Devices

An iPhone 12 Can Temporarily Shut Down Implantable Defibrillators

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent statement, South Korean automaker Hyundai Motors is in early-stage talks with tech titan Apple to develop an electric car.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Apple Is Trying to Find a Manufacturer For Its Self-Driving Car

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reflected on a recent Reuters report that suggested Apple is bringing a self-driving passenger vehicle to market as soon as 2024.

Elon Musk Reveals That Apple Refused to Buy Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

According to a Reuters exclusive, tech giant Apple is planning to produce a self-driving passenger car to be released in 2024.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Apple Is Reportedly Releasing a Self-Driving Car in 2024

By Victor Tangermann

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The Next Apple Watch Will Track Your Blood Oxygen Level

By Victor Tangermann

Apple filed a patent describing AirPods that can automatically adjust volume in either ear based on where you are and what you're up to.

Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre Apple Patent Describes Self-Aware AirPods

By Dan Robitzski

New York's mass transportation agency, fed up with folks taking off their masks to unlock their iPhones, wants Apple to improve facial recognition features.

Artificial Intelligence

New York City Subway System Asks Apple to Improve Masked Face ID

A new iPhone update will urge anyone who tells Siri that "all lives matter" to read up on racial issues and visit BlackLivesMatter.com

Artificial Intelligence

Telling Siri “All Lives Matter” Brings up BlackLivesMatter.com

By Dan Robitzski

Apple and Google are partnering on a coronavirus tracking app that can tell you if you've recently been exposed to somebody who has tested positive.

Apple and Google to Launch App for Tracking the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Trump is displeased that Apple refused to give the FBI backdoor access into iPhone security, but the company already sends lots of data to law enforcement.

Trump Demands That Apple Give Government Access to iPhones

By Dan Robitzski

Tech giant Apple reportedly has a secret team working on satellite-based wireless data beaming technology, according to Bloomberg.

Apple Is Reportedly Working on Secret Satellite Tech

By Victor Tangermann

Apple's employee wellness program includes free DNA tests through Color, which can scan for things like cancer and heart disease.

Apple’s Employee “Wellness” Program Includes Free DNA Tests

By Dan Robitzski

Phil Schiller, the head of marketing at Apple, argues that students with Chromebooks in their classroom instead of iPads won't succeed.

Science & Energy

Apple Exec: Kids With Chromebooks Are “Not Going to Succeed”

By Dan Robitzski

We couldn't help but admire this big, fully functional, hammer-sized Bluetooth AirPod built by handy Redditor Master_Aar17. Seriously, just look at it.

Robots and Machines

Behold This Gigantic, Fully Functional AirPod

By Jon Christian

In what's perhaps one of the most frivolous lawsuits in recent memory, a Russian man is suing Apple for having his iPhone drive him to homosexuality.

A Russian Man Is Suing Apple for “Turning Him Gay”

By Victor Tangermann

This Site Is Selling Decorative AirPods That Don’t Play Sound

This Site Is Selling Decorative AirPods That Don’t Play Sound

By Victor Tangermann

Apple just unveiled the iPhone 11 Pro, but based on the public's response, it didn't run the design past anyone with trypophobia.

Robots and Machines

The New iPhone Design Is Horrifying People With an Obscure Phobia

By Dan Robitzski

Apple was just granted three new patents for the Apple Watch, one of which involves taking an uncomfortably-close look at the skin on your wrist.

Robots and Machines

Instead of Fingerprints, Future Apple Watches May Scan Your Wrist

By Dan Robitzski

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.

Google Uncovers Massive, Multi-Year iPhone Hacking Effort

By Kristin Houser

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak believes his recent interview with Bloomberg was misinterpreted, and he wants to set the record straight.

Steve Wozniak: I Didn’t Mean the Gov’t Should Break up Apple

By Kristin Houser

The FAA is banning anyone from bringing an Apple recalled MacBook on flights — though it's not clear how it plans to enforce the ban.

Robots and Machines

FAA Bans Exploding MacBooks From Airplanes

By Kristin Houser

With just tiny implant, a security researcher was able to rig an Apple charging cable to give himself access to any user's devices.

This Evil Charging Cable Will Infect Your Computer With a Virus

By Kristin Houser

Tech giant Apple is activating a software lock on its latest iPhones, causing an annoying message to show up and hide the overall health of the battery.

Apple Update Cracks Down on “Unauthorized” iPhone Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has suspended a program that let humans review Siri recordings, including private conversations never meant for the digitial assistant.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple: Humans Will No Longer Review Siri Recordings

By Kristin Houser

Human contractors reviewing Siri audio for Apple hear people having private conversations or even engaging in sex acts, a whistleblower told The Guardian.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Contractors Hear Sex Acts, Drug Deals in Siri Recordings

By Kristin Houser

A New York teen is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming its facial recognition system led to his false arrest — but Apple denies the system exists.

Facial recognition

Teen Says Apple’s Facial Recognition Got Him Wrongfully Arrested

By Kristin Houser

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak concerned that the company has yet to release a foldable iPhone, but there's a chance one is on the horizon.

Robots and Machines

Apple Co-Founder: Where’s My Foldable iPhone?

By Kristin Houser

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

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Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.

Apple Runs A “Black Site” That a Worker Called “Dehumanizing”

By Dan Robitzski

A bombshell report revealed a shocking Apple bug in the company's FaceTime video chat app that lets callers eavesdrop on other users before they pick up.

Robots and Machines

Bizarre Apple Bug Let FaceTime Callers Spy on Each Other

By Jon Christian

A new Apple patent depicts a sensor that would give iPhone and iWatches the ability to detect poisonous gases, such as carbon monoxide.

Apple Is Working on Tech That’d Let Your iPhone Detect Poison

By Kristin Houser

Apple just laid off more than 200 employees from its secretive self-driving car project Project Titan, according to CNBC.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Apple Lays Off 200 Workers From Secretive Self-Driving Car Project

By Victor Tangermann

According to CDP, an organization that grades corporations on their environmental impact, Apple expects to become more valuable as climate change worsens.

Apple Expects to Benefit From Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The Apple Watch EKG could flag a potentially-dangerous heart condition. But it's more likely to waste everyone's time, doctors argue.

Health & Medicine

Doctors: Apple Watch EKG Users Could Burden the Healthcare System

By Dan Robitzski

The La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor monitors how much UVA and UVB radiation you're getting, so you know when to get more sunscreen.

Health & Medicine

L’Oreal and Apple Built a Wearable to Measure UV Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

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Big Tech Splits Over Privacy Issues, at Least on the Surface.

By Dan Robitzski

When it shipped the first Apple Watch with a heart rate monitor, the tech giant didn't realize the impact it could have on users' heart health.

Health & Medicine

Big Tech Companies Want to Hack Your Heart Health

By Jon Christian

The FBI forced a child abuse suspect to unlock his iPhone X using Face ID. But should law enforcement have the right to do that?

The FBI Forced A Suspect To Unlock His iPhone With His Face

By Victor Tangermann

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

By Victor Tangermann

The New Apple Watch Transforms What a “Medical Device” Can Look Like

The New Apple Watch Transforms What a “Medical Device” Can Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

The human driver of the other car was to blame for a recent Apple AV accident, the first to involved one of the tech company's autonomous vehicles.

Self-Driving Vehicles

One of Apple’s Autonomous Cars Just Crashed, and (Surprise) It Was A Human’s Fault

By Kristin Houser

Apple, Facebook, and others have rolled out new tools to help us reduce our screen time. But that might not be enough to help us put our phones down.

I Tried Apple’s Screen Time Tool. The Results Were Not Heartening.

By Victor Tangermann

The city of Cupertino is hoping Apple will be willing to heavily subsidize the construction of a hyperloop to ease the city's transportation woes.

Apple May Prove Powerful Enough to Get the U.S. Its First Hyperloop

By Kristin Houser

Apple No Longer Allows Crypto Mining On Its Devices. That’s Good For Users.

Apple No Longer Allows Crypto Mining On Its Devices. That’s Good For Users.

By Dan Robitzski

Apple Unveils Tool That Cuts You Off If You Spend Too Much Time on Your iPhone

Apple Unveils Tool That Cuts You Off If You Spend Too Much Time on Your iPhone

By Kristin Houser

Apple to the EPA: Leave Obama’s Clean Power Plan Alone

Apple to the EPA: Leave Obama’s Clean Power Plan Alone

By Kristin Houser

Tim Cook Says Apple Would Never Have a Scandal Like Cambridge Analytica

Tim Cook Says Apple Would Never Have a Scandal Like Cambridge Analytica

By Kristin Houser

Apple Employees Keep Walking Into Windows at High-Tech New Headquarters

Apple Employees Keep Walking Into Windows at High-Tech New Headquarters

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Apple to Launch Medical Practices to Treat Its Own Employees

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Robots and Machines

False Alarms From Apple Watches Are Stressing out a California Police Department

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Bill Gates Warns Sillicon Valley of Technology’s Dangerous Potential

By Chelsea Gohd

Secret iOS Source Code Has Leaked Onto the Internet

Secret iOS Source Code Has Leaked Onto the Internet

By Patrick Caughill

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Self-Driving Vehicles

In a Bid to Compete, Apple Grows Fleet of Self-Driving Cars

Do Companies Have the Legal and Ethical Rights to Slow Your Devices?

Do Companies Have the Legal and Ethical Rights to Slow Your Devices?

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Advanced Transport

A New Sensor Gives Driverless Cars a Human-Like View of the World

Apple Just Released New Details About iPhone X Facial Recognition

Facial recognition

Apple Just Released New Details About iPhone X Facial Recognition

Chinese Smartphone Maker Promises to Outdo Apple With “The Real AI Phone”

Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Smartphone Maker Promises to Outdo Apple With “The Real AI Phone”

Here’s Why Apple’s Custom GPU and A11 Bionic Chip Are Utterly Revolutionary

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s Why Apple’s Custom GPU and A11 Bionic Chip Are Utterly Revolutionary

By Patrick Caughill