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Currently, just six percent of iPhone users pay in-store with Apple Pay. This September, that might change.

If you’ve installed iOS 13 on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed that many apps are suddenly asking for permission to use your Bluetooth hardware. The same change will arrive on iPads with the iPadOS update. Here’s what’s going on.

Article content Apple Inc on Monday will begin rolling out an update of its iOS operating system with new privacy controls designed to limit digital advertisers from tracking iPhone users. For Apple’s more than 1 billion iPhone users, the change will mean a new pop-up notification in some apps seeking their permission to collect data that Apple believes could be used to track their browsing habits across third-party apps and websites. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refre...

A board with a RISC-V based microprocessor: SiFive RISC-V HiFive RISC-V is a competing microprocessor design. Or to be more precise it is a competing instruction set architecture (ISA). Some speculate that Apple may have made the wrong choice and that RISC-V is the future. Again to quote my sparring partner Sergiy Yevtushenko: Worse (for Apple) is that wider acceptance of ARM for desktop opens the door to other non-x86 architectures as well. For example RISC-V recently started gaining attention...