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Polar ID Is the Face ID Rival for Android Phones, and Could Even Beat Apple

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A little more than six years ago, Apple unveiled Face ID. It was a new method to biometrically unlock iPhones and authenticate purchases by scanning your face. Yet after all this time, there still hasn’t been a meaningful competitor on Android—at least, not with the same level of security and capabilities. Google’s Pixel 8 has … Read more

Netflix confirms it’s cutting off Apple billing for grandfathered subscribers

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Netflix confirms to The Verge that it has begun booting longtime subscribers off their Apple iTunes billing plans, and will require them to pay Netflix directly using a credit card or debit card instead. Earlier today, The Streamable reported that Netflix had begun telling customers in “some territories,” but Netflix representative Momo Zhao confirms to … Read more

Supreme Court Will Decide What Free Speech Means on Social Media

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The Supreme Court is hearing two cases on Monday that could set new precedents around free speech on social media platforms. The cases challenge two similar laws from Florida and Texas, respectively, which aim to reduce “Silicon Valley censorship” on social media, much like Elon Musk has done at X in the last year. Twitter … Read more

‘How much do you love your wife?’ asked the Apple Vision Pro salesman

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DAVID SWANSON/Getty Images I thought I was braced for anything and everything. A couple of weeks ago, I’d gone to an Apple store and been told that the Vision Pro was not merely visionary, but primarily a work tool. It’ll “blow your mind,” I was told. Also: Apple Vision Pro review: Fascinating, flawed, and needs … Read more

It’s Apparently Easy to Crack the Apple Vision Pro’s Front Screen

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Apple’s mixed-reality headset is selling well, but it’s embroiled in a new mystery that’s proving tough to crack. As first reported by MacRumors, some customers have discovered a mysterious crack appearing vertically down the center of the front-facing screen on their Vision Pro headsets. The reports have come from only a small number of users, … Read more

5 Apple Vision Pro issues: Reports of ‘spontaneous cracking’ and more pile up

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The Vision Pro, which hit store shelves on Feb. 2, launched with electrifying fanfare — and some criticism about its $3,500 value — as Apple stepped into a brand spankin’ new product category: mixed reality. Now that several weeks have passed since the Vision Pro’s debut, early adopters have had some time with the AR/VR … Read more

Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max vs. Razer Blade 16

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I’m pitting the best gaming laptop against the best productivity laptop and seeing who comes out on top. It’s a real sumo match of the big boys of the laptop world. No, not in bulk, but the highest-end Razer Blade 16 and MacBook Pros with M3 Max bill themselves as top-of-the-line laptops that thread the … Read more

Apple Updates iMessage With a New ‘Post-Quantum’ Encryption Protocol

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Apple has rolled out an update to iMessage encryption, the likes of which includes post-quantum protections that the company calls the “most significant cryptographic security upgrade” in the messenger’s history. The M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for Halloween In a blog post published Wednesday, Apple announced the arrival of PQ3, a new encryption protocol designed to … Read more