The 2020 iPhone could go back to its iPhone 4 days and bring back the metal frame, MacRumors reported Wednesday, citing an analyst note by Ming-Chi Kuo. The design of the next iPhone will change “significantly,” the Apple analyst reportedly said. The iPhone 2020’s metal frame could come with “a more complex segmentation design, new …

A website pretending to help find jobs for US military veterans was found to be infecting their computers with malware, Cisco‘s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group said Tuesday. The website was called hiremilitaryheroes.com, a Talos blog post said, and asked users to download a fake installer app that deployed malware and malicious spying tools. The system info retrieved by …

T-Mobile is focusing its energy on tearing down Verizon’s 5G rollout, with the “un-carrier” launching an ad campaign against its rival on Wednesday. T-Mobile posted billboards across the US, including in New York’s Times Square, and also set up a Twitter handle full of memes and quizzes criticizing Verizon’s 5G pricing and lack of coverage maps. It also launched a …

Apple and Disney could have had a very different future if Steve Jobs were still alive, Disney CEO Bob Iger has revealed in an excerpt from his upcoming memoir published in Vanity Fair on Wednesday. Recounting his close personal friendship with Jobs and Disney’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Pixar in 2006, Iger said he and the Apple CEO spoke several …

AT&T is looking into offloading broadcast satellite provider DirecTV, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. It could be done as “a spin-off or combination with Dish,” CNBC also reported. DirecTV could either become its own separate company or be sold off to satellite TV provider Dish — which also recently bought $5 billion in wireless assets from …

Another state has joined the opposition to T-Mobile and Sprint merging. Pennsylvania has jumped aboard the lawsuit blocking the wireless carriers’ deal, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday. The multistate coalition against the merger is gaining strength, she said, with the latest addition meaning the lawsuit now represents “every region in the nation.”  “Pennsylvania’s addition to our lawsuit …

Facebook has partnered with Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglasses maker Luxottica to develop augmented reality glasses, according to a report. The companies are looking to launch a set of AR glasses, code-named Orion, for consumers sometime between 2023 and 2025, CNBC said on Tuesday. Facebook’s AR glasses have been in the works for some time. In 2017, the company’s chief technology …

You don’t need to wait till Sept. 19 to check out Apple Arcade. Apple’s new gaming service is available now, three days before its official launch date, for some users who are running the iOS 13 public beta. First spotted by MacRumors, the iOS 13 public beta lets you sign up for an Arcade subscription starting now, including the free one-month …

Google’s $40 million acquisition of Fossil’s tech earlier this year was reportedly for hybrid smartwatches. Fossil’s technology is internally called Project Diana, stemming from the combination of the words “digital” and “analog,” Wareable reported Monday citing anonymous sources.  Diana combines “physical watch features with digital elements,” according to the report, including some watches without screens. Read more Google will pay …

AT&T is facing a lawsuit alleging it created fake customer accounts to make it look like DirecTV Now was seeing customer growth ahead of the company’s merger with Time Warner. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, alleges AT&T “encouraged” its employees to add the service to customers’ accounts without their knowledge, as reported earlier Monday by Bloomberg. The amended …