Apple has officially unveiled its new Time to Walk feature for Apple Watch and Apple Fitness+ subscribers. Time to Walk offers “an inspiring new audio walking experience on Apple Watch for Fitness+ subscribers,” Apple announced in a press release. Apple says the new Time to Walk workouts will be available today, and they appear to be slowly rolling out to users on Apple Watch. Apple explains that each Time to Walk episode is “shaped by the guest’s personal, life-shaping moments” and is “recorded while walking outside or in locations that are meaningful to them....

Apple has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in damages for infringing upon patents held by the California Institute of Technology. According to a report from Bloomberg, a jury decided today that Apple and Broadcom must pay a combined $1.1 billion to Caltech. Apple is responsible for $838 million, while Broadcom is responsible for $270 million, Caltech lawyers say. The jury was responsible with determining whether Broadcom’s chips used Caltech’s patents, and how much Apple and Broadcom should have to pay in damages....

Gamers hoping to become the best at Apex Legends are going to need to know tips and tricks that’ll help them win. Respawn Entertainment’s first foray into the battle royale genre is something very unique from other shooters, though. This is all thanks to its setting within the Titanfall series, diverse and unique characters/classes, and unique three-member teams. Admittedly, there’s a lot to learn here, but gamers eager to master the Apex can take a few tips into battle with them....

Apple today added new additions to Flyover, the feature offering high resolution 3D imagery of select locales in its Maps app. The 11 new locations include cities from around the globe in places such as Puerto Rico, Texas, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Sweden, England, France, and Denmark. A full list of new cities below: Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Amarillo, TX Arecibo, Puerto Rico Beziers, France Brno, Czech Republic Cittadella, Italy Clermont, France Hamburg, Germany Helsingborg, Sweden Liverpool, England Odense, Denmark...

As expected, Apple today released a new tool created in collaboration with SAP for developing business software. The new cloud platform aims to make it easier to develop business software and comes following Apple’s enterprise-focused partnership with SAP last year. Apple announced on its developer blog this evening that the SAP Cloud Platform SDK is now available to developers: Apple’s VP of Product Marketing Susan Prescott says that the new tools will help developers “transform their businesses” and combine the security of iOS with innovation:...

One of the areas where Apple has seemingly fallen behind its competition — or, more likely, not yet ready to disclose its technology’s full potential — is artificial intelligence. However, there’s no denying that the company is pushing hard towards bettering its existing products (like Siri) behind closed doors, and the latest AI hire is but another proof of such commitment… The Cupertino firm has just hired Carnegie Mellon University professor Russ Salakhutdinov, who will lead an “AI research” team as director....

Apple’s version of “classic MTV,” Apple Music TV, has now expanded to the United Kingdom and Canada after debuting in the US last year. The channel plays an endless stream of music videos all day, every day, as well as incorporating live event content from time to time. Apple users can watch Apple Music TV for free through the TV app or the Music app. To find it in the TV app, scroll down on the Watch Now page for the Apple Music TV carousel....

A pair of patent applications from Apple that surfaced this morning in the United States Patent & Trademark Office’s (USPTO) database prove Apple’s been researching 3D displays for mobile devices and personal computers. As always, Apple’s solution is one with a twist. The company is calling for a device with two displays, one on the front and the other on the back, which can be interacted with in order to enhance the e-reading experience on mobile devices, automatically turning on and off as you flip the device around....

While we haven’t heard much about Apple’s Project Titan for quite some time, that doesn’t mean the company isn’t actively working on the project. The Information reports that Apple has hired senior engineer Jaime Waydo from Google’s Waymo self-driving project. It believes that this could speed up and potentially put Apple ahead of other players in its self-driving car efforts. This could also potentially lead to its first prototype vehicle....

Apple today has announced that Isabel Ge Mahe will be its new vice president and managing director of Greater China. Currently, Mahe is the company’s vice president of Wireless Technologies. Her new role will see her report directly to CEO Tim Cook and COO Jeff Williams. Apple says this “newly created” position aims to help Apple provide leadership to its China-based team, as well as to help it continue to invest and grow in the country....

With BioWare’s Anthem releasing soon, it’s time to look at an essential element of the RPG: the Javelins. In Anthem, Javelins are customizable exosuits that Freelancers wear, with each Javelin granting its wearer a unique set of superhuman abilities and weapons. Choosing a Javelin is one of the big decisions that Anthem players will have to make, and that choice will ultimately determine the kind of game experience that players can expect....

Taking a snapshot means capturing the state of the executable at a particular point in time, most likely when it has completely decrypted its original code and had reached its OEP (original entry point). This snapshot is saved onto a disk after fixing the import table, API redirects etc. This dumped executable can be reverse engineered since the original code for the executable has been recovered. Here we are going to see some of the anti-dumping techniques that are prevalent in packers that prevent the reverser from capturing the decrypted executable....

The App Store on iOS 6 beta, which is software currently only available to those a part of Apple’s Developer Program, scored a nice little update this evening. Most notably: the layout when searching for an app was given a considerable redesign. It now displays apps in swipeable cards on both the iPhone and iPad. In the nifty cards, users are presented with a screenshot of the app, along with the five-star rating system, and a handy button to install the app on your device....

Microsoft’s Active Directory was the centerpiece of every enterprise’s IT strategy for many years. From Exchange to the shared drive, to a centralized login system, AD was everything. We’ve all of a sudden realized in 2020 that AD is not everything. It’s still a crucial part of IT strategy for many organizations, but it’s no longer the only strategy. For cloud-first companies, many of them aren’t even deploying an active directory infrastructure....

Apple’s stance on privacy is clear: it will do its best to comply with law enforcement, however, it believes creating a backdoor for its operating system is the wrong thing do to. Today Apple has commented (via TechCrunch) on Australia’s anti-encryption bill, noting that it is “dangerously ambiguous” and “alarming to every Australian.” To break it down, the bill in question is called Access and Assistance. This bill, if it becomes a law, forces tech companies operating in the country to help law enforcement and other intelligence agencies when trying to access encrypted data....

Apple has announced that its CFO Peter Oppenheimer is leaving Apple for retirement in September this year. Luca Maestri, vice president of finance, will take over as CFO. The transition will begin in June to smooth the changeover from Oppenheimer to Maestri. Oppenheimer has been at Apple since before Jobs returned in 1997, as a senior director. He became Senior Vice President and CFO in 2004. Yesterday, it was announced that Oppenheimer would join Goldman Sachs as a board member....

Apple chipmaker TSMC and chip designer ARM have announced that they will work together to create a 7nm FinFET process expected to enter early production in late 2017 and mass production in 2018. This would put it on track for an A11 chip in the iPhone 8. Apple originally used ARM chips in its iOS devices, switching to its own custom chip when it launched the iPhone 5, though still using an ARM instruction set....

Apple is commemorating Martin Luther King Jr Day by devoting its homepage to a full-page photo and quote. Tim Cook also tweeted in honor of Dr King, who led the non-violent civil disobedience protests that played a crucial role in advancing civil rights in the USA … Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in....

While early reviews of the new Apple TV are somewhat muted, Apple isn’t finished yet. It has confirmed to Buzzfeed that the new device will add Siri support for Apple Music from the beginning of next year. Reviewers have praised Siri’s universal search feature, which allows system-wide searching for video content, and the box will now be capable of carrying out similar searches for music. The move should be good news for Apple as well as for its customers … This means that using the Apple TV remote control, people will be able to say, “Play ‘Hotline Bling’” or “Play the newest Taylor Swift album,” and Siri will take it from there....

At this point, it is well known that the iPhone 8 (or iPhone Pro, or whatever it’s called) will feature a new (5.8-inch) OLED screen. Reports indicate that this display will be exclusively manufactured and supplied by Samsung, as Samsung currently dominates global supply of phone-sized OLED panels. Apple is never happy to depend on just one supplier for a critical iPhone component, not least it’s arch-rival in the tech landscape....