The feature comes as Apple contrast itself vs. companies like Facebook and Google, which rely on collecting data about their users and making it available to advertisers…
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Apple takes some of its repatriated cash and goes shopping
As we race to the close of the company’s fourth quarter, it seems pretty clear…
Significant artificial intelligence enhancements on tap for Apple’s platforms
WWDC 2018 introduced significant enhancements to artificial intelligence (AI) on Apple’s platforms…
Facebook’s surveillance machine
Facebook’s business model involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
HomePod should become a hub for all Apple-centric needs
Today the HomePod is all about music, but it could be so much more…
Hey Siri: give me a product development road map for AI
Infighting, rushed development, and lack of vision have damaged Apple’s Siri development…
Former Apple employees reflect on Siri’s ‘squandered lead’ over Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
Review after review trashed Siri with words like ‘dopey,’ ‘annoying’ and ’embarrassingly inadequate’…
Siri creator is surprised by how much Apple’s Siri still can’t do
Norman Winarsky was among those present at the birth of Siri…
European Union seeks power to seize overseas personal data from customers of Apple, Microsoft, other tech firms
The European Union is preparing legislation to force companies to turn over customers’ personal data…
FBI agent texts criticize Apple: ‘Now if Tim Cook would fall off the face of the earth’
The messages are between Peter Strzok, an FBI counterintelligence agent, and Lisa Page, a lawyer for the FBI, who were involved in an extramarital affair at the time…
Apple is leading the charge to offline artificial intelligence
When it comes to the companies that are leading the charge into artificial intelligence…
Apple to users: Here’s why our data gathering doesn’t invade your privacy
Apple is using differential privacy to protect users, even when collecting very sensitive data such as keystrokes and the sites users visit…
Privacy worry? Apple is sharing your face data with third-party app developers
Apple just started sharing your face with lots of apps…
Google collects Android settlers’ locations even when location services are ‘disabled’
Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services?
Apple says ‘Face With Tears of Joy’ is the most popular emoji in America
The face topped Apple’s list of the top 10 emoji, ahead of…
App developer access to iPhone X face data spooks some privacy experts
Apple Inc. won accolades from privacy experts in September for assuring that facial data used to unlock…
Apple: Privacy is a fundamental right
Apple updated its privacy policy Wednesday and offered up more details on how it handles the data…
Apple begins mining browsing data in Safari via differential privacy
The public release of macOS High Sierra brings with it some key updates to Safari…
Apple explains how it’s making Siri smarter without endangering user privacy
I wake up and put on my Apple Watch, and while I’m making coffee, I look down and see…
Is Apple really falling behind in the artificial intelligence race?
Changes to executive responsibility for Siri are a sign that things…
Commitment to user privacy complicates Apple’s push into artificial intelligence
To build and run machine learning services you need computing power and data, and the more you have of each the more powerful your software can be…
Apple’s iPhone turns ten: No product in recent history has changed people’s lives more
The firm’s approach to data privacy will determine Apple’s success in the coming years…
Apple strengthening Siri’s backbone ahead of next-gen intelligent devices and services
Apple once led the pack with its intelligent assistant Siri, but in just a few years, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have chipped away at its lead…
Apple acquires dark data startup ‘Lattice Data’ for $200 million
Apple has acquired Lattice Data, a Menlo Park company that was spun out of a Stanford research…
Apple expands in Microsoft’s backyard
Apple is growing its team in Seattle by creating a new hub for artificial intelligence research…
Why Apple can’t lose the looming services battle
While Apple is not going to be a pure play services company…
iCloud is one of Apple’s biggest challenges in 2017
Apple is fond of talking about its secret sauce, about the things only it can do because of its…
Five years on, why doesn’t Apple’s Siri work better than it does?
There are some fundamental differences between Apple and Google when it comes to privacy…
Mossberg: Why does Apple’s Siri seem so dumb?
In addition to the iPhone, Siri is now on the iPad, and was recently added to the Mac…
More than 60 percent of Windows sufferers would upgrade to Apple’s Mac for more privacy
Concerns over Windows 10 and the amount of data it collects via the Windows Store could prompt sufferers to upgrade to Mac
Apple’s problems are worse than you think or something
Apple is about to become a much less significant consumer electronics business…
Apple’s cutting-edge ‘differential privacy’ is opt-in
Apple announced at last week’s developer conference that, starting with iOS 10, it will collect a range of new information…
Apple’s cutting-edge ‘differential privacy’ offers unique option for technology users
Modern technology has presented us with something of a Faustian bargain when it comes to our privacy…
Apple’s use of cutting-edge tech will peek at user habits without violating privacy
Apple Inc. is tapping new technology to garner insight into user behavior…
Apple debuts new ad for iOS 10
Apple today debuted a new TV ad for iOS 10…
Apple unveils iOS 10, the mother of all iOS releases
Apple today previewed iOS 10, the biggest release ever of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system…
