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These Companies Just Made Fortune 500's Top 10

Walmart takes top spot in annual ranking of largest US firms

(Newser) - Fortune has released its annual Fortune 500 rankings, its 69th version of the list of the country's largest corporations, based on revenue for 2022's fiscal year. Per a release , a company had to bring in $7.2 billion to be included, a jump of 13% from last...

Apple Has Ducking Great News for iPhone Pottymouths

Company's iOS 17 features enhanced autocorrect that makes it easier for you to type out curses

(Newser) - Technically, "improved autocorrect functionality" is what MacRumors is calling one of the upgrades that comes with Apple's iOS 17 for the iPhone. CNET puts into perspective what that actually means: "Your iPhone keyboard can learn curse words now." Apple unveiled its newest operating system Monday at...

Apple Unveils $3.5K 'Vision Pro' Goggles

'This marks the beginning of a journey that will bring a new dimension to powerful personal technology'

(Newser) - Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public's imagination. After years of speculation, Apple CEO Tim Cook hailed the arrival...

Judge Approves $50M 'Butterfly' Keyboard Settlement

Customers in 7 states could get up to $395

(Newser) - Almost a year later, Apple's $50 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit regarding the company's much-maligned "butterfly" keyboards has received final approval from a US federal court, Engadget reports. Judge Edward Davila says the settlement, which does not require Apple to admit wrongdoing, is “fair, adequate...

Apple Employees Forbidden From Using ChatGPT

Company fears leaks of confidential data: 'WSJ'

(Newser) - Apple is content to offer OpenAI's ChatGPT to iPhone users , but not to its own employees. The company is restricting workers from using external artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft-owned GitHub's Copilot, which automates the writing of software code, for fear that confidential data entered into the...

Teen Hikers Rescued Thanks to Helpful iPhone

10 teens found themselves lost in the dark

(Newser) - Darkness fell and still the teen hikers did not appear. It was enough to worry guardians of the group of 10, aged 16 to 18, who soon alerted California's Ventura County Sheriff's Office. But as CBS News reports, it was Apple's Emergency SOS feature that ultimately led...

Feds: Apple Engineer on 'Need to Know' Project Took Data, Ran to China

'Disruptive Technology Strike Force' announces 5 similar cases involving trade secrets

(Newser) - Federal authorities on Tuesday said a former Apple engineer who was working on an extremely secretive project for the company stole trade secrets and then fled to China. Weibao Wang, a Chinese citizen, was hired by the tech giant in 2016 to work on a "robot car" autonomous vehicle...

Apple Wins Ruling on App Store Challenge

Maker of Fortnite had been kicked out for using its own payment system

(Newser) - Tech giants can take heart in a federal appeals court ruling issued Monday, which found that Apple does not violate antitrust laws with its App Store policies. The 9th Circuit of Appeals ruled, as a lower court had, that Epic Games did not prove Apple committed anticompetitive behavior, the Washington ...

Blogger: Each Mac Carries Hidden Bitcoin Manifesto

A tech blogger says Satoshi Nakamoto's original BTC white paper can be found in Macs dating from 2018

(Newser) - Tech blogger Andy Baio recently made a mysterious discovery while trying to fix his printer: Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 Bitcoin white paper. In a blog post at Waxy.org , Baio writes that it appears as though the paper has been hidden as a PDF in "every copy of macOS...

Original iPhone Still in Plastic Now Worth a Pretty Penny

One hitting the auction block Thursday is valued at up to $60K

(Newser) - It sold for $599 in 2007. A decade and a half later, a first-generation iPhone with 8 gigabytes of storage, still wrapped in plastic, is thought to be worth up to $60,000. Its among the lots offered by Chicago's Wright Auctions in a Thursday sale, beginning at 12pm...

First-Generation iPhone Brings 100 Times Its 2007 Price

Owner had never opened the gift received in 2007

(Newser) - When Karen Green got a new job in 2007, her friends gave her a congratulatory iPhone. She had just gotten a new phone, so she never opened the gift. "I didn't want to get rid of my phone, and I figured, 'It's an iPhone, so it...

There's a Big Problem With Apple's Automatic 911 Calls

Call centers are overwhelmed with calls triggered when there is no emergency

(Newser) - Emergency call centers in various states that have been inundated with false calls and officials are pointing the finger at a single culprit: Apple. Since 2018, Apple devices have been able to detect when a user suffers a hard fall . If a fall is detected, the device buzzes and sends...

Apple Users Get Hit With Surcharge for Twitter Blue

Blue check mark system is back, but some will be paying more than others

(Newser) - Twitter's blue check-mark system under Elon Musk didn't go so well when it was launched last month, thanks to a proliferation of phony accounts, and it was suspended almost as soon as it began. Now it looks like the paid subscription program is coming back, though some people...

Lawsuit: Apple AirTags Are a Stalker's Dream

Women suing company say devices are 'unreasonably dangerous'

(Newser) - Apple says its AirTag tracking devices are "designed to track items not people"—but a lawsuit filed Monday calls them "unreasonably dangerous" products that make life easy for stalkers. The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in California by two women who said ex-partners used...

Mark Zuckerberg Has a Problem With Apple, Too

CEOs of Meta, Spotify, Fortnite also complain of company's 'monopoly'

(Newser) - Elon Musk may have eased his censure of Apple , but his initial attacks have ushered in a heap of criticism from elsewhere. Fellow billionaire Mark Zuckerberg echoed Musk's complaints that Apple has too great a hold on the app market on Wednesday. "Apple has sort of singled themselves...

Everything's Apparently Cool Between Twitter, Apple

Elon Musk tweets that 'misunderstanding' has been 'resolved'

(Newser) - The Twitter-Apple war is over before it began. Elon Musk had on Monday started a feud with Apple because, he said, Apple was threatening to remove the Twitter app from its App Store, but on Wednesday, Musk tweeted that he had a "good conversation" with Apple CEO Tim Cook...

Apple Music Reveals No. 1 Song of the Year

'Stay' by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber tops the list

(Newser) - "Stay," the smash hit by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, topped Apple Music's global songs chart in 2022 as the giant music streamer released its end-of-year lists and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes. Some details, per the AP :
  • "Stay,
...

Musk Threatens to Go to War With Apple
Musk Declares 'War' on Apple
Nov 28, 2022 7:20 PM CST

Musk Declares 'War' on Apple

He accuses company of threatening to block Twitter from App Store

(Newser) - Elon Musk had another busy day Monday on Twitter—the CEO slammed Apple over issues including free speech and posted a meme suggesting he was ready to "go to war" with the company over App Store policies. "What's going on here @tim_cook?" Musk tweeted to the Apple...

Employee Charged With Defrauding Apple of $10M
Ex-Employee Admits to
Defrauding Apple of $17M
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Nov 2, 2022 12:58 AM CDT

Ex-Employee Admits to Defrauding Apple of $17M

Dhirendra Prasad worked as a buyer in the supply chain

(Newser) - Update: A former Apple employee pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding the tech giant out of more than $17 million over seven years while he worked as a buyer for Apple's Global Service Supply chain, federal prosecutors said. Prasad admitted the fraud involved “taking kickbacks, inflating invoices, stealing parts,...

'No Choice': Apple to Adopt USB-C Chargers

Greg Joswiak confirms company will comply with new laws, despite its opposition

(Newser) - Apple has "no choice" but to begin making iPhones with a USB-C port, rather than one to fit its Lightning cables, an official has confirmed. Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, tells the Wall Street Journal that "we'll have to comply" with new...

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