Jeff Gamet

Apple buys AI company Perceptio The company has been working on an image recognition system that uses deep learning. For those that aren't in the know, deep learning is an artificial intelligence system where computers are capable of identifying and classifying sensory input. In other words, Apple could take Perceptio's work and make an iPhone…

James Bell joins Apple's board of directors Apple CEO Tim Cook seemed pretty excited to have Mr. Bell on the board. He said in a press release, “James brings a wealth of global, financial and industrial experience from his successful career at Boeing as corporate president and CFO. I am thrilled to welcome him to…

The emoji in question are cartoon-like graphics depicting men holding hands, women holding hands, and same sex couples as families. Those emoji are available along side similar graphics of mixed sex couples. Apple's emoji collection caters to the openminded and tolerant crowd You can see the mixed sex family emoji in one column, followed by…

Apple: We'll put Xcode on servers in China The malware, dubbed XcodeGhost was added into the Xcode installers developers were getting from non-Apple servers inside China. The malware was injected into the iOS apps they compiled without their knowledge, and then managed to get past Apple's screening process and onto the App Store. XcodeGhost wasn't…

Apple is refunding all Peace app purchases “Apple notified me this afternoon that they’ll be proactively refunding all purchases of Peace,” Mr. Arment said in a blog post. “As far as I know, this effectively never happens. When I decided to pull the app, I asked some Apple friends if this was even possible, and…

Peace was an app that enabled iOS 9's Web content blocking feature. It sped up website loading by using Ghostery's database to block superfluous content which includes some on-site ads, but didn't offer fine-tuned controls for choosing exactly which content would be blocked. Mr. Arment said in a blog post on his website, Peace required…

Apple buys another map company: Mapsense Mapsense is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013. Here's how it describes itself: There are over 10 billion devices on the planet streaming location data on a daily basis. While collecting location data has become mainstream, the traditional tools to visualize, understand, and harness it have been hampered…

Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs The film, which is based on Mr. Isaacson's biography in the loosest sense, includes a powerful cast and is the “monstrously sel-aggrandizing movie [Steve Jobs] deserves.” Variety goes on to offer up the obligatory comparison to the two year old Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher, and gives us the…

His expectations for the next generation iPhone models are in line with other analysts. Mr. Um said, “We expect the biggest internal hardware addition to be Force Touch alongside memory, CPU, and camera upgrades and capacity to remain unchanged at 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB.” He expects we'll also see a refresh for the iPad mini,…

We've come a long way since Steve Jobs told us we already have ten styluses on our hands thanks to the creative efforts of many companies. Over time, iPad and iPhone styluses have become more complex, gained pressure sensitivity, and trimmed down the size of their tips. Adonit's latest addition to the stylus world is…