Siri can now take voice commands for seamless PayPal transactions in 30 countries

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Can you believe it’s taken this long for probably the world’s largest Internet payment platform to meet up with arguably the most popular intelligent personal assistant, and enable very simple voice commands for quickly sending and receiving e-money?

Well, it’s good to see Siri support officially offered to PayPal customers, and better late than never, right? Besides, Apple will still hold bragging rights over rival AI services like Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana or the newly released Google Assistant, none of which allows users of Android, Windows or Echo devices to magically make payments by uttering a few words.

“Hey Siri, send Bill $50 using PayPal.” That’s all you need to say starting today, November 10, after you download the free iOS app on iPhones and iPads running the latest platform build. Of course, it doesn’t have to be $50, and Bill isn’t the only one that could use a little financial relief for the painful recent election loss.

You can even ask for some holiday dough via voice (in case you weren’t already ashamed of still living off your parents), and Siri will take PayPal directives in no less than 30 countries and a variety of languages, including Australia, Canada (English and French), China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, UK, and United Arab Emirates (Arabic).

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Indian government may buy Cellebrite hacking solution

Posted on by Jules Wang

Israel-based Cellebrite, the company rumored to have sold the FBI a zero-day exploit for the iPhone 5c at the center of a terrorism investigation, is also rumored to be in talks with the Indian government to sell another exploit that may unlock “iPhones and other electronic devices with top-notch encryption,” according to The Economic Times‘s sources from within the Forensic Science Laboratory.

As part of the country’s law enforcement, the FSL may seek to serve as “a global hub for cases where law enforcement is unable to break into phones,” one anonymous official said. The technology could penetrate through the encryption layers of iOS 8 and above as well as Android devices. The FSL has consulted Cellebrite for exploits on a per-case basis, but it could be a month away from obtaining a complete tool to crack the codes.

The FBI reportedly paid millions of dollars to Cellebrite for a decryption tool to access information inside the iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the suspected perpetrators of a mass shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 and injured dozens last December. The firm has sold products to and worked with multiple governments on investigations where content on a conventionally inaccessible phone is wanted.

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iOS 10.1.1 update already released to fix Health data viewing bug

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

While we’re going to be the first to admit we didn’t hear many iPhone, iPad or iPod users complain of an “issue where Health data could not be viewed” once their operating systems were brought up to build number 10.1 last week, such a problem must have existed, and it must have been serious if Apple dedicated an entire update to its fix.Well, technically, the so-called changelog of the iOS 10.1.1 makeover alludes to bugs (plural) being ironed out, but aside from the aforementioned, nothing specific is pointed out. ...

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iOS 10 adoption proceeds at sluggish pace, Tim Cook stresses Android’s doing worse

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

If you perhaps hoped Apple would spice up a mostly tedious announcement event of an otherwise alluring new MacBook Pro with some playful jabs thrown at controversy-marred arch-rival and occasional business partner ...

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Apple opens up October event with focus on accessibility, iPhone 7 photos, Apple TV

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“When technology is designed for anyone, it lets everyone do what they love,” said a wheelchair-enabled film editor.Apple CEO Tim Cook led the company’s October event with a refreshed accessibility website for the company, making sure that people know what resources that an iPhone or a MacBook can provide to everyone who can do with just a little help to do what they want to do in life. Cook went onto a laudatory update on the iPhone 7 with 400 million Memories already logged and a burn on Android fragmentation as

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iOS 10.1 beta 5 pushed to public, developer channels

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Apple, much like other tech companies, is on the way to another software update. It seems almost like a perpetual chase to the next dot-update. In the case of iOS, it’s to version 10.1. And the fifth public and developer beta has been released.But this pair of updates seems to be a pretty important one. As in, nearly 2 gigabytes important. According to BGR, it seems that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus ...

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iPhone 7 cell issues look to be fixed with iOS 10.0.3 update

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With recent cellular connectivity issues plaguing the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 10.0.3 may be the ultimate balm for this batch of bugs.That update, exclusively for the two new iPhones, went out today. The update weighs in at 76MB and can be pulled through the usual download routes. No security updates were made beyond those included in the iOS 10.0.2 update.Owners of the phones using them on

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Got an iPhone 7 with a broken Home Button? Apple relents with instant virtual one

Posted on by Jules Wang

Got an iPhone? Got a broken home button? Yeah, we figured that would pop up as an issue at some point. And it’s one annoying issue that also plagues the iPhone 7’s Home Button. Yes, even with that little capcitive, Taptic pad we pass as a button.Luckily for us, though, Apple has gotten ahead of the issue by implementing fault detection for the button and the ...

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Apple discloses actual iOS 10 adoption rate, and it’s not as impressive as we thought

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The world’s largest information technology company isn’t having a great year by its traditionally demanding standards, although a marginal dip in demand for new iPhone models, general sales stagnation in key Asian markets and a ...

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iOS 10 adoption comfortably outpaces all previous versions, already at over 66 percent

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After 24 hours, it was already at 14 percent, despite some hiccups, and a couple of weeks in, it skyrocketed to over 50 percent share, just as predicted, and yet again in the face of reported bugs and

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Apple iPhone 7 vs iPhone 6S: 4 Reasons to Upgrade (and 3 Reasons Against)

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Over the last several years, we’ve become increasingly skeptical over any manufacturer’s ability to change enough from year to year to warrant a consumer flipping a phone after only 12 months. Apple makes the most impassioned case for positioning technology products as lifestyle accessories. Each year they deliver a new “look” for that new “season”, much like we might discuss a purse or a pair of shoes. If any company has the goods to convince consumers to part with their cash, it would be Apple.Screen size and resolution remains the same, the camera is ...

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Google is ‘actively working’ to fix issue preventing Android Wear watches from pairing to iPhone 7

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

It may feel like an unnatural alliance to some, but Google’s Android Wear smartwatch platform supports both fellow Android handhelds and iPhones. Basically, if you’re not a hardcore fan of either Big G or Apple, don’t particularly understand the appeal of “iWatches”, yet still own a new or old iPhone, plus

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iOS 10 share nearing half as it overtakes iOS 9

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It’s been fifteen days since the release of Apple’s latest version of its mobile software platform. As of 3pm Eastern Time today, more actively used iPhones and iPads had iOS 10 than any other version of iOS. Easy pickings, given that the only real competition was iOS 9.Analytics firm MixPanel’s hourly observations more than 240 billion records show that 48.34 percent ...

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iPhone 7 Review: Back in black

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

iPhone 7 Review VideoIt’s the best iPhone ever! Though, the iPhone 7 arrives at a time when consumers are holding onto their phones for longer stretches of time, and this premium phone faces intense competition from mid-range and flagship phones from last year. Will this phone help spark a little more excitement in the iOS fan camp to upgrade?It’s time to get down to brass tacks and see what’s improved, what’s stayed the same, and what might have taken a step back from last year’s iPhone. Learn about every aspect of this phone in our iPhone 7 review below.Hardware

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iOS 10.0.2 arrives with trio of bug fixes, including one for erratic headphone controls

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Despite a big problem encountered by a small number of iFans during the first hour of iOS 10 availability, plus a bunch of less serious but more widespread connectivity issues limited to T-Mobile’s network, everybody wants to upgrade to the

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