Apple is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that it has been restricting access to its NFC technology and making billions of dollars in profits as a result. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of financial institutions and credit unions that issue payment cards for Apple Pay, and alleges that Apple denies access to the technology …

The FBI, Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service have shut down a series of websites that they allege were selling 24 million Social Security Numbers, names and dates of birth of people living in the US. The SSNDOB Marketplace made about $19 million in revenue while it operated, according to an announcement from the agencies Tuesday. Working with local …

Under a law passed Friday, electronics makers selling products in New York state will be forced to provide repair information, parts, tools, software and components to consumers and independent repair providers.  The right to repair law, called the Digital Fair Repair Act, will mean customers no longer have to take their damaged or broken electronic products back to the original makers …

Another analyst firm has predicted phone shipments will drop this year, with IDC forecasting 3.5% fewer phone shipments in 2022 down to 1.31 billion units. The report, published Wednesday, attributes reduced demand for phones to inflation as well as China’s COVID-19 lockdowns. The lockdowns are creating a bottleneck for the production of smartphones, in addition to reducing demand in the …

Apple has reportedly chosen a new supplier for its front-facing camera to make a high-end lens. South Korean supplier LG Innotek will install the new selfie camera on the upcoming iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, according to a report Monday from South Korea-based tech news site ET News, citing unnamed industry sources. The front camera will also come with …

German blog site TechnikNews has published what it says are images and specs of Sony’s anticipated WH-1000XM5 headphones. The next iteration of Sony’s top noise-canceling headphones will launch very soon, TechnikNews reported, citing an unnamed retail source. A follow-up to Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones, which came out in 2020, the WH-1000XM5 headphones will reportedly come in black and silver versions, have a …

Unlimited Google Photos storage is back, as long as you’re a T-Mobile customer willing to spend $15 a month for the honor. The opportunity is “coming soon” exclusively to T-Mobile, as reported earlier Tuesday by The Verge.  Customers will be able to store unlimited photos and videos in full resolution, as well as getting 2TB of storage for Gmail and Drive. …

Worldwide PC shipments fell by more than 7% during the first quarter of 2022 with 77.5 million total units shipped, according to preliminary numbers from analyst Gartner released on Monday. The main cause was a “steep drop” in demand for Chromebooks, Gartner said. “After an unprecedented Chromebook surge in 2020 and early 2021, driven by demand from the US educational …

Apple and Facebook parent company Meta may have handed over private customer information including addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses last year in response to hackers who presented forged legal documents, a report says. The data was given to hackers pretending to be law enforcement, who used faked emergency data requests in mid-2021, Bloomberg reported Wednesday citing three unnamed sources. …

Following an outage across multiple Apple services on Monday, the tech giant again experienced outages across the App Store, Apple Music and more. Apple’s system status page shows Apple Books, Podcasts, the Mac App Store, Game Center, iCloud web apps, Apple Card and Weather also experienced issues Tuesday afternoon. The service outages hit between 1:45 p.m. and 2:09 p.m. PT and …