Earlier today, a report emerged explaining how the App Store has explicitly banned developers from harvesting Contacts databases. Now, Bloomberg says this crackdown from Apple may hurt Facebook’s controversial “Protect” VPN service… In February, Facebook started rolling out a new “Protect” feature to its iOS application. In the settings menu of the Facebook app, the “Protect” button linked to the Onavo Protect app in the iOS App Store. Facebook acquired Onavo in 2013....

Following a flyover video late last month, today we get even newer 4K footage of Apple’s under construction Campus 2 site for April courtesy of YouTuber Duncan Sinfield. Sinfield got these drone shots earlier this month and put together the video below showing progress made over the last year as he compares shots of the current sate of the site to past flyover videos. Apple is getting closer to its expected end of the year completion date and the company’s tentative move-in date for employees is now just 10 months away....

Steve Ballmer may have retired as Microsoft’s CEO back in February and resigned from the company’s board last month, but rest assured that the raging businessman is still loyal to the Redmond-based software giant. For those of you who aren’t sports fans, Ballmer recently purchased the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers and one of his first acts as the team’s new owner is to have the organization cutdown its use of Apple products....

Last week, Apple issued a surprise security fix for iOS that patched a vulnerability that allowed attackers to remotely gain control of a user’s device if they simply clicked a link. Now, Apple has issued the same security patch for users of OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan and 10.10.5 Yosemite. The vulnerability has been named “Pegasus” and takes advantage of zero-day vulnerabilities to remotely jailbreak and install monitoring software on a user’s device, obviously without the user’s knowledge....

UPDATE:Trailer Track says this “new” trailer is actually the D23 special look, which is playing in front of IT Chapter Two. The original article follows. A new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer has been officially rated. As hard as this is to believe, the conclusion to the Skywalker saga hits theaters in a little over three months, meaning soon Lucasfilm is going to have to rev up the marketing campaign into overdrive....

We first heard about the upcoming comedy series in the works for Apple TV+ from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Charlie Day and Rob McElhenney back in February. Now a full trailer for Mythic Quest was shared today at E3 2019 that gives a closer look at what to expect from the new series. Mythic Quest follows a game studio whose highly popular title of the same name is about to receive a major expansion....

Customers in India can visit Newegg.com and purchase a wide selection of products. Initially, this new international store will have a limited selection of products to start, but this will grow and improve in the coming months. Newegg is also adding multilingual customer service in order to reduce any language barriers. Customer can chat in their native language, which is translated instantly for Newegg’s customer service representatives. At the moment, the service offers Polish and Dutch language options only, but more languages will soon be added....

thin just a few days, the strip of recommendations on top of the screen ballooned from a single cooking show to three of them, all at the front of the queue. Each recommendation was a direct link into the Food Network’s app, which offers free episodes for many of the channel’s recent shows. ’s recommendation engine perfectly illustrates the potential of Android TV, the platform on which the $99 Nexus ayer runs....

Earlier this month we reported that the NFL network was testing its NFL Now service as a channel on the Apple TV. The subscription sports service launch followed a few days later with apps for iPhone and iPad in tow, and today the Apple TV channel has arrived as well. While the football channel does not support viewing live games, it does feature highlight clips and other programs as part of the service....

Netflix has always made it easy for people who live together to share their Netflix account, with features like separate profiles and multiple streams in our Standard and Premium plans. But, Netflix can track sharing Netflix’s passwords outside your household, and it may soon begin charging users for sharing their passwords across households. Netflix is Adding Two New Features Netflix has been working on ways to enable members who share outside their household to do so quickly and securely while also paying a bit more....

. The eighth-generation iMac was announced at the company’s late-October media event, where Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller called it, “the most beautiful iMac we have ever made.” Right on track, the 21.5-inch iMac is now available on the company’s online store and is available across a slew of third-party retail stores this afternoon. The 27-inch model will ship starting in “2-3 weeks” in the United States and Canada, while overseas (Australia/EU is “15-19 days”) is looking at up to 20 days—making a Christmas delivery tight....

Supply chain sources have previously reported that the Apple A13 chip will be built by TSMC on a ‘7nm+’ process. In an article posted today, Bloomberg says that the A13 chip is now in trial production and could ramp up to mass production later in May. The A13 chip will be used in the next-generation iPhone lineup, the 5.8-inch iPhone 11, 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Max and a successor to the 6....

The AR game company Niantic just released an exciting surprise for fans of Pokémon GO: it added to the game Terrakion, a new legendary Pokémon that will only be available for a limited time. Last October, the mobile game surpassed $3 billion in lifetime revenue, while last summer it reached the goal of 1 billion downloads. Since the launch of Pokémon GO in 2016 on the 20th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, the success of mobile game has never stopped....

Just a day after Google unveiled the Nexus 9, Apple unveiled the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 3 yesterday. While the iPad mini 3 packs in last year internals, the other two tablets — the Nexus 9 and iPad Air 2 pack in the absolute best of technology that is available right now. While the Nexus 9 might not be as thin as the iPad Air 2, its offers other advantages like double tap to wake and front-facing Boomsound speakers....

Need For Speed Heat isn’t perfect, but it’s the best game Need For Speed has seen in a while and provides plenty of street racing thrills for fans. Need For Speed has had a tough time of it in recent years. Once one of the most renowned racing franchises around, it has struggled this generation through poorly-received releases that have failed in comparison to more impressive rivals. As we reach the twilight of the current console generation, Need For Speed Heat is trying to undo some of that bad work....

This week, Netflix continues bringing content for Halloween season with a horror movie, balancing it with a comedy series, and a comedy-drama movie that is already facing some controversy. Netflix has been adding a variety of content this month, and even though October is usually reserved for the horror genre, the platform has been offering a bit of everything while keeping the Halloween vibe going. Last week was a bit more diverse, with the hip-hop talent show Rhythm + Flow, the second season of Haunted, the thriller Fractured, and the highly-anticipated El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie....

The Witcher has finally released on Netflix, bringing to life one of the most popular fantasy series to take off in recent years. The stories of Geralt of Rivia are hardly new, the books having been released in the early 90s and translated into English starting in 2007. However, with the success of the hit video game series, audiences were excited to see The Witcher get its on-screen adaptation. One reason the games received such acclaim was their high quality of writing....

. Apple will announce a refreshed version of its full-sized, 9.7-inch Retina display iPad at its media event October 23rd, according to our sources. These people say that the new version of the iPad will retain the same $499, $599, and $699 WiFi-only price points, and the LTE line will retain the current $629, $729, and $829 pricing. With no price changes or additional storage capacities, we believe that the storage options of 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB will also be retained....

MacRumors has allegedly gotten their hands on photos of what appear to the rear shell and components of the rumored iPhone 5S. While these photos reveal little new about the device, they provide a closer picture at what we might see from Apple later this year. Most notably, the photos depict a redesigned rear shell for the next generation iPhone, making room for a larger, dual-LED flash cutout, and presumably a higher resolution camera....

Looks like the rumors are true: iOS 7 beta 4 has leaked a new folder called “BiometricKitUI.” Based on the description, sent to us by Hamza Sood,it seems pretty clear that Apple is preparing a new iPhone with a fingerprint sensor.The interface is described above, pointing to a user being able to swipe the sensor on the iPhone’s home button. The text: Sood tells us that the above strings are what an iPhone with VoiceOver on would read to a user....