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Apple is continuing its push to expand its retail arm under the guidance of new Retail VP Angela Ahrendts, with new stores popping up around the world. Today another of those new stores has been revealed as green and white signs promoting the upcoming Apple Store, Omotestando in Tokyo, Japan. The store is said to be opening in June. According to Macotakara [translation], the new store will use a “curtain of green” to control the interior climate and cut energy usage....

One of the most popular products from Apple in 2021 was certainly its polishing cloth. With stock gone for weeks, the product only recently reappeared, but a question remained: how to actually clean it without the need to buy a new polishing cloth? Apple has explained. According to the company’s support page on “how to clean the nano-texture glass on your Apple Display,” which includes the Apple Pro Display XDR and the 27-inch iMac with nano-texture glass, Apple has specific details on how to clean its own Polishing Cloth....

Apple’s R&D team has been on a roll lately. The latest patent application describes an interesting privacy mode on displays for mobile gadgets that can steer display light beams in various directions, allowing only the person directly in front of the display to see its content. Patenty Apple explains: The invention called “Systems and Methods for Electronically Controlling the Viewing Angle of a Display” is credited to an Apple engineer David Gere....

There seems to be no limits to what artists are able to create with Apple’s products. From Disney animators sketching classic characters, to an illustrator using an iPad Pro to design the New Yorker’s latest cover. In today’s latest artistic drive, Apple has partnered with five young Chinese artists to reinvent classic Nianhua folk art. On Apple’s new Made in CNY page, artists share the tools of their trade along with their art....

Apple is said to be seeking more information on the deaths of two workers from Foxconn’s iPhone assembly line in Zhengzhou, China. The WSJ reports that one death was an apparent suicide, the other an accident. Apple issued a brief statement stating that it would be investigating the deaths. Early one day last week, a 31-year-old man finished his night shift on an iPhone assembly line, climbed to the top floor of Foxconn Technology Group’s L03 production building and leapt to his death....

Phishing occurs when a fraudulent email or other mediums such as social media and phone calls that mimic that of a reputable company is distributed to individuals to unveil personal information such as credit card credentials and passwords. It is amongst the most prevalent security threats that companies must contain to keep their data secure. It has been reported that hackers send over 156 million phishing emails every day, and that doesn’t consider other methods that are growing more popular with the widespread use of social media and smartphones further develop....

Apache NiFi is easily extensible through the development of custom components. In this Apache NiFi tutorial, you will learn- What is Apache NiFi? Why Use Apache NIfi? History of Apache NiFi NiFi Architecture Apache NiFi Features How to Install Apache NiFi Nifi Use Cases Best practices Running Apache NiFi Disadvantage of Nifi Why Use Apache NIfi? Here, are reasons for using Apache Nifi: Allows you to do data ingestion to pull data into NiFi, from numerous data sources and create flow files It offers real-time control which helps you to manage the movement of data between any source & destination Visualize DataFlow at the enterprise level Provide common tooling and extensions Allows you to take advantage of existing libraries and Java ecosystem functionality Helps organizations to integrate Nifi with their existing infrastructure NiFi is designed to scale-out in clusters which offer guaranteed delivery of data Visualize and Monitor performance, behavior in a flow bulletin which offers insight and inline documentation Helps you to start and stop components separately or at the group level It helps you to listen, fetch, split, aggregate, route, transform and drag & drop Dataflow...

One of the iOS 14 features Apple highlighted in its new-format WWDC keynote was App Clips: a really quick way to download just enough of an app to carry out a specific task, like paying for a car parking space. An interesting take by PC Mag suggests that the feature is just the first step into a new approach made possible by the 5G iPhones we’ll be getting later this year …...

In its ongoing efforts to ensure strong security for customers, Apple will require the use of app-specific passwords from June 15th. This affects you if you use a third-party app that logs in with an iCloud email and password (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) to access contacts, calendar and mail messages. If you don’t migrate to app-specific passwords by the June 15 deadline, then those apps will stop working. Luckily, it’s easy to fix: read on for step-by-step instructions on how to make app-specific passwords for your Apple ID....

During its Q4 2015 earnings call today, Tim Cook revealed the first numbers for its new Apple News service saying that the app has around 40 million users since launching alongside iOS 9 in September. Apple didn’t specify exactly where it’s pulling that data from. It’s possible a user could mean everyone that’s ever opened the app, or it could be using some other arbitrary way of measuring, like those that have used the app in the past week, as it has done with Apple Music....

A sketchy report today says that the rumored Apple headset with combined AR-VR capabilities has fallen behind schedule. The report says supply-chain partners expected the device to move into a second phase of prototype testing last quarter, but this didn’t happen. However, it’s unclear that much weight should be given to the claim … The paywalled Digitimes report refers to the device as “AR glasses.” This is somewhat ambiguous, as Apple is believed to be working on two separate – and very different – products in this field....

After announcing WWDC 2018 earlier this month, Apple has officially started confirming lottery winners for WWDC 2018. Registration for this year’s developer conference closed yesterday at 10am PT. For those selected, Apple will begin charging your credit or debit cards for the amount of $1,599, unchanged from last year. WWDC 2018 lottery winners are now sharing via Twitter and elsewhere the results. WWDC 2018 will be held at the McEnery Convention Center, like last year....

In a radio interview on the syndicated show Conversations on Health Care, Apple COO Jeff Williams said that the reason Apple has come under attack for the use of child labor in its supply chain is that the company actively goes out looking for it. Other companies, he said, simply keep their heads down. Apple has come under fire over the years when underage workers were found in the company’s supply chain, and Williams has spoken before about Apple’s unusual stance on these issues …...

Update: Rollout has responded with a statement. Apple today has started informing developers that use “hot code push” SDKs that it will soon start rejecting their applications. In a thread on the Apple Developer Forums, developers are reporting that they have started receiving messages from the company explaining that the code must be removed before any further updates will be approved. While Apple has yet to publicly comment on the change, the email sent to affected developers seems to imply that services like Rollout....

To Our Developers We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software. We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others....

Following WWDC 2021 wrapping up last week, Apple executives are continuing to appear in podcasts and YouTube videos to discuss the company’s latest announcements. In a new video posted today, YouTuber Rene Ritchie sits down with Apple’s Kevin Lynch and Deidre Caldbeck to talk Apple Watch, Health, and more. Ritchie says: During the interview, Lynch spoke in-depth on the new Trends feature in Apple Health, explaining how the company tried to balance showing users useful data without overwhelming them:...

Apple hasn’t been given an easy ride with its plans for a major new European data center in Ireland, but final approval has now been granted by the local planning body, subject to a number of extra conditions. Apple first announced plans for the $950M data center some 18 months ago, aiming to deliver better connectivity to European customers for all its online services. All looked on track as the company was quickly granted planning permission for the facility, but despite the fact that the center will be entirely powered by renewable energy, an appeal was lodged on environmental grounds …...

Apple has officially announced its iPhone 13 event for September 14 and along with the reveal, the company has continued its recent tradition of including a fun Easter egg for iPhone and iPad users. This time it’s slicker than ever, an AR portal. Starting last year, Apple began including fun little AR Easter eggs for each event announcement. We got one for the Apple Watch and iPad event, iPhone 12 launch, the M1 Mac event, and the 2021 Spring Loaded event....

An SEC filing by Apple shows that the company plans to increase this year’s spend on product development by $1.5B, reaching a total of $5.9B by the end of September, reports Business Insider. At the same time, Apple is cutting its forecast capital expenditure by $1B, which the company told the WSJ was due to efficiency savings. Apple explores a great many potential new product ideas, and the increased spend on product development could conceivably indicate that the company is choosing to invest more heavily in one of these, BI speculating that it may be the long-rumored Apple car … A company spokeswoman said Apple lowered the forecast because it was able to spend more efficiently for tooling equipment and facilities....

Apple’s first online WWDC event was easily one of the best online keynotes we’ve ever seen. The main focus of the event was the announcement of Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 software. Additionally, watchOS 7 and macOS Big Sur were also unveiled during the event. As always, Apple released the first beta builds for the aforementioned operating systems. These beta builds have been made available primarily for developers to check out....