
US court rules against Samsung over iPhone design
Neither side happy
A US court has ruled that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, but there are major reasons why Apple will not be happy with the verdict.

TSMC starts work on Apple's A12
7nm
The dark satanic rumour mill has started a hell on earth yarn claiming that TSMC has started work on Apple's custom built Apple A12 CPU built on a 7-nm process.

Google sued for tracking Apple fanboys
It cared what they did, apparently.
Google is being sued in the UK high court for as much as $4.3 billion for the alleged "clandestine tracking and collation" of personal information from 4.4 million iPhone users.

Apple fanboy Trump refuses to part with his two iPhones
Despite security fears
Despite the fact that he is placing the United States in the hands of Apple's unique security system, President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump refuses to give up his two iPhones, even if his security staff plead with him to be a little more sensible.

Apple developers form a union
Cheesed off with the company's heavy handed antics
Fed up with the way that Apple treats developers, a group of iOS developers have marked the tenth anniversary of the Apple app store by forming a trade union.

Lenovo rejects notches
It was a silly idea
While some smartphone makers think that since Apple put a notch on its phones, they have to follow suit, Lenovo believes the whole thing is silly.

Apple sued over its terrible but nice looking keyboards
What do you mean you want them to work too?
Fruity cargo cult Apple has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the butterfly-switch keyboards found on the current generation MacBook Pro and MacBook lineups.

Apple to start its own credit card
Needs to offset losses from falling iPhone sales
Fruity cargo cult Apple is hoping that it can offset some of the money it is losing as the great unwashed lose interest in its smartphone by offering an Apple Pay credit card.

Chinese and US spooks use sound to control AI assistants
A spy in your house
For two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

Apple pulls out of big Irish project
Blames two people for thinking different
Jobs' Mob has ditched plans to build an 850 million euro ($1 billion) data centre in Irelan?, citing delays in the planning process.