Apple Stories for 2016

C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index 232
European Commission To Issue Apple An Irish Tax Bill of $1.1 Billion, Says Report 212
Apple Announces Event On September 7: iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 Expected 115
Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories 297
Apple Fixes Three Zero Days Used In Targeted Attack 76
Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay 294
Spotify Is Burying Tracks From Musicians Who Give Exclusives To Apple and Tidal 87
Facebook's WhatsApp Data Gambit Faces Federal Privacy Complaint 94
Apple Patenting a Way To Collect Fingerprints, Photos of Thieves 90
iPhones and iPads Fail More Often Than Android Smartphones 176
Malware Sold To Governments Helped Them Spy on iPhones 31
Apple Under Tim Cook: More Socially Responsible, Less Visionary 152
A Design Defect Is Plaguing Many iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Units 222
Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack 385
Samsung Plans To Sell Refurbished High-End Smartphones In 2017 84
Apple, Samsung Capture All Of Industry's Smartphone Profits 161
Google Will Kill Chrome Apps For Windows, Mac, and Linux In Early 2018 102
China's Xiaomi Gearing Up For US Debut 42
AT&T, Apple, Google To Work On 'Robocall' Crackdown 113
iOS and Android Combined For Record 99% of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter 191
Companies Can't Legally Void the Warranty For Jailbreaking Or Rooting Your Phone 128
Intel To Manufacture Rival ARM Chips In Mobile Push 81
FalseCONNECT Vulnerability Affects Software From Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, More 32
Tim Cook: Privacy Is Worth Protecting 120
Serious Flaws In iMessage Crypto Allow For Message Decryption 43
Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry 394
Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets 330
Apple Said To Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four Years 304
Zero-Day Hunters Will Pay Over Twice as Much as Apple's New Bug Bounty Programme 29
Chrome Is Nearly Ready To Talk To Your Bluetooth Devices 151
Report: Apple Watch 2 Coming Late 2016 With GPS, Faster Processor and Better Waterproofing 159
Iran Bans Pokemon Go Over 'Security Concerns' 71
Apple Acquires Machine Learning and AI Startup Turi 14
Kids Can Now Learn To Code With Pocky, the Delicious Japanese Snack 51
Microsoft Swaps Toy Gun Emoji For Revolver -- Days After Apple Does the Opposite 331
Apple Announces Bug Bounty At Black Hat With Maximum $200,000 Reward 39
Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers 472
Microsoft, Google, Apple Could Be Requested To Actively Block Pirated Downloads, Says Report 207
LibreOffice 5.2 Officially Released 103
Apple Makes Slight Progress On Diversity While Its Rivals Are Making Practically None 241
Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun 246
Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X 106
Apple's Rigid Negotiating Tactics Cost Us 'Skinny Bundles' For Apple TV, Says Report 111
Samsung Beat Apple In Smartphone Shipments, Profit Surges To 2-Year High 126
Stiglitz Calls Apple's Profit Reporting In Ireland 'a Fraud' 197
The Most Popular Product Of All Time 367
Office 365 Gets New Word, PowerPoint and Outlook Features 99
One Billion iPhones Have Been Sold, Apple Says 126
New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption 254
Apple Q3 Earnings: iPhone Sales Continue To Slide, But Apple Beats Estimates 54
Apple's Electric Car Project To Be Led By Bob Mansfield 143
Suspect Required To Unlock iPhone Using Touch ID in Second Federal Case 233
Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Celebrated at Comic-Con 106
Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here... and They're Extremely Annoying 536
Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week 35
Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go 79
Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone 97
Google Gets Rid Of App Launcher In Chrome 52, Browser's Mac Client Gets Material Design 68
Apple Patches Stagefright-Like Bug In IOS 23
Smartwatch Shipments Fall For the First Time; Apple Only Company In Top 5 To Decline 129
Edward Snowden's New Research Aims To Keep Smartphones From Betraying Their Owners 107
BlackBerry CEO 'Disturbed' By Apple's Hard Line On Encryption 202
Safari Browser May Soon Be Just As Fast As Chrome With WebP Integration 105
Army Special Operations Command Ditching Android For iPhone, Says Report 254
Apple Begins Rolling Out iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint to Apple Music Subscribers 61
Slashdot Asks: Do You Install Preview Version Of An OS On Your Primary Device? 151
Google, Tesla, and Facebook Attract 'Hordes of Tech Tourists' To Their Headquarters 80
Google's New Emoji Aimed At Promoting Gender Equality Are Coming 200
145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' 360
Apple Launching Reality TV Show Called 'Planet of the Apps' 62
PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data 104
Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse 130
Carrying A Gun-Shaped iPhone 'Makes It Much Less Likely You'll Catch Your Plane' 235
Apple Patents Augmented Reality Display, May Be Building A VR Headset 25
Apple Devices Held For Ransom, Rumors Claim 40M iCloud Accounts Hacked; Apple-Related Forums Compromised 73
Apple To Release Public Betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Today 88
Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say 140
Walmart Now Lets You Pay With Phone At All 4,600 US Stores Via Walmart Pay 118
EasyDoc Malware Adds Tor Backdoor To Macs For Botnet Control 68
iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ 235
'New Way of Stealing Cars': Hacking Them With A Laptop 159
Apple To Encourage Organ Donation With Health App 63
Comcast Will Let Netflix Onto Its X1 Platform 43
Google Twists the Knife, Asks For Sanctions Against Oracle Attorney 78
Tech Overtakes Finance Among Top Global Companies 33
That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business 240
Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share 249
Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit 150
Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For 'Preferential Treatment' 181
Facebook To Shred 'Paper' News-Reading App On July 29th 23
Apple In Talks To Buy Jay Z-Owned Tidal Streaming Service 61
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? 226
Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition 321
Spotify Says Apple Won't Approve New Version Of Its App Because It Doesn't Want Competition For Apple Music 327
US Efforts To Regulate Encryption Have Been Flawed, Government Report Finds 110
Florida Man Sues Apple For $10+ Billion, Says He Invented iPhone Before Apple 159
Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters 266
How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law 189
Apple Won't Collect Your Data For Its AI Services Unless You Let It 36
Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display 168
SanDisk Made an iPhone Case With Built-In Storage 48
BitTorrent Adds Music, Video Streaming Options With Re-Launched BitTorrent Now 29
Apple Says iOS Kernel Cache Left Unencrypted Intentionally, Nothing To Worry About 124
KFC Introduces Meal Box That Doubles As A Smartphone Charger 77
'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' 771
Kernel of iOS 10 Preview Is Not Encrypted -- Nobody Knows Why 82
LeBron James Used A Steve Jobs Speech To Motivate The Cavs To Victory 97
Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid 595
Apple Starts To Shell Out $400 Million To Customers In eBook Settlement 30
Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone 227
Big Tech Squashes New York's 'Right To Repair' Bill 224
Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android 157
Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji 569
Apple iPhones Found to Have Violated Chinese Rival's Patent 130
Social Media Overtakes Television As Young People's Main Source of News, Says Report 159
Rhapsody Rebrands Itself As Napster 42
Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App 170
Apple Introduces New File System AFPS With Tons Of 'Solid' Features 295
Apple's Stock iOS Apps Land On App Store, Hints That It Could Allow People To Get Rid Of Them 65
Apple Introduces Swift Playgrounds App To Teach Kids To Code 73
Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS 86
Apple Announces Its New Desktop OS macOS Sierra Featuring Siri, Apple Pay 249
New York Thieves Wearing Apple Store T-Shirts Steal $16,000 In iPhones 120
Feds Ask Supreme Court To Void Apple's $400 Million Award From Samsung 63
It Took 33 Years To Find the Easter Egg In This Apple II Game 97
NSA Couldn't Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone; Now Working On Exploiting IoT 90
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Most Tablet Specs Suck? 231
Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone 364
A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters 119
Google Announces Support of the Controversial TPP 231
Woman Uses 'Hey Siri' To Call An Ambulance and Help Save Her Child's Life 208
Apple Creates Energy Company, Looks To Sell Excess Power Into The Grid 107
Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue 44
Google's AI 'TensorFlow' Software Is Coming To iOS 33
Slashdot Asks: Is the App Boom Over? 278
Apple To Offer iOS Developers 85-15 Revenue Split; Debut Paid App Store Search Ads 84
Firefox 47 Arrives With Synced Tabs Sidebar, Better YouTube Playback 129
Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes 147
IBM Has Been Awarded An Average Of 24 Patents Per Day So Far In 2016 54
Apple Offers No Explanation for 7-Hour Outage 91
Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence 178
Apple Reportedly Developing 5K Retina Thunderbolt Display With Integrated GPU 296
Minecraft Tops 100 Million Sales 112
Expect Substantial Slowdown In Smartphone Shipment: IDC 39
Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 227
Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report: Messaging Apps Could Rival Home Screen 32
US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data 147
Apple To Extend iPhone's Product Cycle; Shift To 32GB Internal Storage On Base Model: Reports 289
Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers 40
ASUS' ZenBook 3 Is Thinner, Lighter and Faster Than the MacBook 209
Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade 352
Feinstein-Burr Encryption Legislation Is Dead In The Water 123
Google Boosts Mobile Web Speed On Apple Devices With Accelerated Mobile Pages 28
Apple Not Allowed To Open Stores In India 242
Patent Troll VirnetX Wants To Ban FaceTime and iMessage, Increase Damages Award By $190M 94
Virtual Assistants Such As Amazon's Echo Break US Child Privacy Law, Experts Say 67
Toyota Forms 'Strategic Partnership' With Uber 92
Apple To Open Up Siri To Developers, Release An Amazon Echo Competitor 82
No, Apple Won't Become a Wireless Carrier 33
Apple, Microsoft and Google Hold 23% Of All US Corporate Cash Outside the Finance Sector 166
Apple To Launch Thinner, Lighter MacBook Pro Models With OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID In Fall 238
Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email 134
Xiaomi Revenues Were Flat in 2015 55
Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people 67
How the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers 134
Ask Slashdot: Can You Have A Smart Home That's Not 'In The Cloud'? 183
A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies 392
Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store 91
Chromebooks Outsell Macs For the First Time In the US 177
iOS 9.3.2 Bricking Some 9.7-inch iPad Pro Devices With 'Error 56' Message 35
Symantec Antivirus Products Vulnerable To Horrid Overflow Bug 79
Apple, Microsoft and Other US Tech Companies Undergoing 'Security Reviews' in China 34
Warren Buffett Buys $1 Billion Stake In Apple 120
Apple To Launch Startup Accelerator, Three Apple Stores In India, Says Report 22
Apple Says It Doesn't Know Why iTunes Users Are Losing Their Music Files 214
Mac Users Reporting Widespread System Freezes With OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Update 100
Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi 40
Google Launches 'Gboard' Keyboard For iOS, Featuring Built-In Google Search 47
FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud 171
WhatsApp Now Has a Desktop App, Available on Windows, OS X 166
Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 314
FTC Orders Apple, Google, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Samsung To Divulge Mobile Security Practices 74
Microsoft Hits $1 Trillion In Total Cumulative Revenue: Reports 130
Creators Of Siri Demo Their Next AI Assistant Viv, It's Far More Open Platform 53
Lyft Plans Self-Driving Taxi Fleet By 2017 77
Siri Voice Actress Doesn't Use Siri 82
Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music 63
LAPD Hacked An iPhone 5s Before The FBI Hacked San Bernardino Terrorist's iPhone 5c 47
SAP Partners With Apple To Expand iOS In The Enterprise 19
Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes 284
'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' 341
Life's Too Short For Slow Computers 137
Apple Loses Exclusive Rights To 'iPhone' Trademark For Non-Smartphone Products In China 89
Slashdot Asks: What Do You Think Is The Most Influential Gadget Of All Time? 397
Tim Cook Defends Apple, Teases Exciting New Products In The Pipeline 225
The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones 224
Apple's Smartwatch Draws Competition And A Very Bad Review 104
Amazon Beats Microsoft In 'The Battle of Seattle' 109
Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch 98
Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple 127
FBI Bought $1M iPhone 5C Hack, But Doesn't Know How It Works 77
GCHQ Has Disclosed Over 20 Vulnerabilities This Year 29
iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' 267
Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C 382
Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives 796
A Complete Guide To The New 'Crypto Wars' 68
FBI Director Suggests iPhone Hacking Method May Remain Secret 110
Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade 284
Top Silicon Valley Execs and Others Urge Congress To Fund K-12 Computer Science Education 125
Apple Is Outdated, Says Chinese Conglomerate LeEco CEO 245
British Astronaut Competes in London Marathon from ISS 61
40% of Silicon Valley's Profits (But Not Sales) Came from Apple 147
From Uber To Eric Schmidt, Tech Is Closer To the US Government Than You'd Think 48
Apple Should Pay More Tax, Says Co-Founder Wozniak 240
FBI Paid More Than $1 Million For San Bernardino 'Hack' 99
Choosing to Skip the Upgrade and Care for the Gadget You've Got 183
Almost Nothing About the 'Apple Harvests Gold From iPhones' Story Is True 45
Can Switzerland Become a Safe Haven For the World's Data? 103
FBI Tells Congress It Needs Hackers To Keep Up With Tech Company Encryption 103
Apple Refused China Request For Source Code In Last Two Years: Lawyer 57
Apple Launches MacBook 2016 With Intel Skylake Processor, Longer Battery Life 179
Rogue Source Code Repos Can Compromise Mac Security Due To Old Git Version 184
BlackBerry Comments on Canadian Police Eavesdropping Report 61
Silicon Valley's Legendary 'Coach' Bill Campbell Has Died 18
Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services 134
Google's Android N OS Will Support Pressure-Sensitive Screens 68
Snowden Predicts Global iPhone Hack, Records Song 71
Apple Expects Users To Replace Their iPhone, Apple Watch After Three Years 175
Apple's Recycling Initiatives Recover $40 Million In Gold 138
Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks Stores Mysteriously Go Down In China 14
Apple Considering Google-Like 'Paid Search' On App Store 49
Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall 212
FBI Tried To Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago, Files Show 72
iOS 1970 Bug Is Back, Can Be Exploited Via Rogue WiFi Networks 106
FBI Couldn't Tell Apple What Hack It Used, Even If It Wanted To 99
Chrome 50 Updates Push Notifications, Drops Support For Old Windows and OS X Versions 168
In the Age of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As the New Statesmen 180
FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone 149
Cellebrite Is Developing Roadside Police 'Textalyzer' Device 188
Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys 107
Slashdot Asks: It's Been a Year Since Apple Watch Release, What's Your Thought On It? 359
Variation in Depiction of Same Emoji on Different Platforms Can Lead To Miscommunication 111
Apple Won't Sue FBI To Reveal Hack Used To Unlock Seized iPhone 43
Apple's Fight With US Over Privacy Enters a New Round 62
White House Declines To Support Bill That Would Let Judges Order Tech Companies To Break Encryption 150
Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report 172
FBI Director Says Unlocking Method Won't Work On Newer iPhones 78
FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone 346
Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption 182
Opera's Ex-CEO Launches Vivaldi 1.0 For Power Users 135

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