iOS 16 beta 5 adds an option to show the battery percentage in the status bar on some iPhones, after Apple removed it for notched models at the iPhone X's debut
what took them so long? Amy Sarkar / Huawei Central : Once scared of notch, Apple brings Battery Percentage feature in iOS 16 Victoria Song / The Verge : Battery percentage finally returns to iOS 16 a...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year
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Rogers experienced an 18+ hour outage on Friday, affecting internet and phone services, including 911 calls, in parts of Canada
One of Canada's largest service providers had a major outage this morning. Voice of America : Millions of Canadians Lose Mobile, Internet Services Jem Aswad / Variety : The Weeknd's First Stadium Tour...
How the peer pressure to be a part of the blue bubble iMessage text groups keeps US teens locked into Apple's ecosystem
Good morning! Have you heard of Mukesh Ambani, the hotelier? Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : Google executive accuses Apple of using peer pressure and bullying to sell iPhones Jeff Butts / HotHardware.c...
Sources: Life360, a family safety app with 33M users, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the location data broker industry's top sources
family safety app Life360. Life360 sells location data from its 33 million users to about a dozen data brokers, including X-Mode, Safegraph, and Cuebiq. https://themarkup.org/... Wolfie Christl / @wol...
Apple will launch an Android app to detect AirTags that may be in use to track a person and reduces the interval before AirTags sound an alert in such cases
and will offer an Android app later this year cc: @evacide https://www.cnet.com/... @pradeepviswav : @Techmeme @iansherr There should be a single app that can detect and alert users about stalking. In...
Internal doc: T-Mobile to require all new devices to support VoLTE from August 4, and will stop supporting any non-VoLTE phones on its network from January 2021
and even sooner than AT&T Daniel Golightly / Android Headlines : T-Mobile Customers May Need A New 4G VoLTE Phone By January 2021 Matt Milano / IT Management : T-Mobile Soon Will Require VoLTE Phones ...
Google Play Pass unveiled as a $4.99/mo. subscription for access to 350+ unlocked Android apps and games that are free of ads and IAPs; first year to be $2/mo.
devs make money based on engagement. Huge news. https://www.theverge.com/... @manan : this is the kind of thing MSFT would do during the Windows Vista days. While all users would already have pirated ...
Apple apologizes for inadequately communicating battery management practices that slowed down iPhones with older batteries, will offer $29 battery replacements
and Its Strengths John Keefer / Neowin : iFixit matches Apple's $29 battery swap deal, adds older iPhones, as well Mike Snider / USA Today : Is your iPhone battery causing your smartphone to run slowl...
Samsung S8/S8+ review: gorgeous design, build quality, great camera, but fingerprint scanner is in awkward spot, Bixby's useless, preinstalled apps are annoying
Here's What We Think About It iFixit : Samsung Galaxy S8 Teardown Steve Kovach / Business Insider : Why the iPhone 7 is still better than the Samsung Galaxy S8 Ina Fried / Axios : Putting the Galaxy S...