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Apple Revamps MacBook Pro With Touch Bar
After being placed on the backburner for the past couple of years, Apple has come back with a new MacBook refresh. Unlike some previous updates that were more like minor tweaks, the new laptops are the biggest upgrade yet since the Retina displays were added in 2012. These changes bring…
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Apple Touch ID Can Be Hacked Using Play-Doh
A Chinese startup has exposed a dangerous flaw in Apple’s Touch ID biometric security verification system: it can be hacked using children’s modelling material Play-Doh. Jason Chaikin, President of mobile security firm Vkansee, demonstrated that Play-Doh can take a mould of a fingerprint which can then be used to unlock…
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Is Touch ID Headed to MacBooks and Mac Mice?
A new rumour from Taiwanese site Apple.club.tw says that Apple is to bring Touch ID to its MacBooks and computer mice. Touch ID is the fingerprint scanning technology the company has included with the iPhone and iPad beginning with the iPhone 5s. They say that scanner will be included above the trackpad…
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Apple Acquisition of AuthenTec Meant No Nexus 6 Fingerprint Scanner
Back in 2012, Apple purchased biometrics company AuthenTec with the intention of including their fingerprint scanning technology in future iPhones and iPads. That technology became Apple’s Touch ID, first included with the iPhone 5s in 2013 and all iOS devices since. What we didn’t know, was that Motorola intended to incorporate…
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Apple Exploit Can Disable ‘Find my Phone’ and Have Your Device Erased On Firmware 7.0.4
It appears that yet another bug cropped up in Apple’s latest iPhone iOS 7 firmware. The latest finding apparently lets you bypass the user password and deactivate the Find my Phone feature, hiding it from the iCloud.com page on which you can effectively track its location in case of losing…
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Apple iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 Will Be Available In Champagne Trim
Apparently, silver and Space Gray aren’t the only two trims the iPad 5 will come in. The insane popularity of the Champagne trim on iPhone 5S forced Apple to make a last-minute change to its product stack. The company is mulling one for its upcoming 9.7-incher. The Champagne iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 features the…
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Latest Leak Shows That iPad 5 Will Feature Touch ID
While the launch of the iPad 5 release date is closing in later this month, leaks and speculation have been continuously flowing. The latest is from a YouTube channel named Unbox Therapy. Using one of the leaked iPad 5 front panels that have been roaming around from part suppliers, Unbox Therapy shows how the iPad…
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