On this podcast, we talk about: Apple posts its fiscal third-quarter results Tuesday. Are we getting any new iPhone hints? Nintendo is enjoying continued Switch momentum. MoviePass raised its prices and limited the kinds of movies you can see.  The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought …

Apple Pay will be there when you have a hankering for a Slurpee.  Apple’s mobile payment system, typically run through your phone, will work in CVS and 7-Eleven stores across the US this fall, CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings conference call.  They mark the latest retailers to jump on the Apple Pay bandwagon, which is critical to …

For years now, Microsoft has been experimenting with ways to let you seamlessly pick up on your Windows PC from where you left off on a phone. Recently, that’s generally just meant sending links to your PC’s web browser. But as announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the company’s planning to let you share much much more between a phone …

Apple’s definitely working on something when it come to TV — but it’s still not ready to tell us about it. CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday hinted at Apple’s ambitions, but, in typical Cook fashion, didn’t reveal any specifics.  “We hired two highly respected television executives last year, and they have been here now for several months and have been …

We’ve been warned about apps that track our behaviour or store our private information, but what if your smartphone screen is betraying you? Scientists have revealed the way you swipe, pinch and tap your smartphone screen could be used to track your identity and potentially breach your privacy. In a research paper presented to the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in …

Two key policy changes will be introduced to overcome privacy concerns about My Health Record, the embattled online service that stores a summary of your key health information. After discussions with the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), Greg Hunt, minister for health, announced that significant changes will be made to the My Health …

With about three months to go until Google is expected to launch its next pair of flagship phones in October, alleged leaked photos of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are common to see. The latest pictures of supposedly leaked images of the Pixel 3 come from XDA Developers, and show a white model with 4GB of RAM and 128GB …

Everybody’s doing it. From YouTube, Twitter and Reddit to MacOS Mojave, websites and entire operating systems are getting in the dark-mode game. We all stare at screens for large portions of our days and nights, and transforming bright, white backgrounds to black can ease the strain on our eyes. Plus, it just looks cool. The latest player in the dark-mode …

Qualcomm says Intel reneged on a promise to provide documents on its latest radio frequency components being used in recent Apple iPhones, but it still wants them. As part of its patent legal battle with Apple, Qualcomm filed a motion late last week in a San Jose, California, federal court to compel Intel to supply it with technical documents and …

Facebook said Tuesday it’s redesigning its mobile app’s navigation bar — at the bottom of the screen for iPhones, and at top of the screen for Android phones — to show people shortcuts for the products they use most frequently. Previously, everyone in the same country saw the same five icons. In the US, it was news feed, notifications, menu, …

The parents of one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting want to know why Mark Zuckerberg has made Facebook “a safe haven for hate.” Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose 6-year-old son Noah Pozner was killed in the Newtown, Connecticut, attack spoke directly to the social network’s founder in an open …

Beyond the basic iOS 12 features that came to all iOS devices when the update was released on Sept. 17, Apple’s iPad ($170 at Amazon) gained a few new features. While the lack of major productivity improvements to the iPad may be disappointing, you still get Apple’s new Screen Time tool, better notifications, group FaceTime calls, and Siri improvements — …

MoviePass needs to save some cash, and it’ll be raising prices and limiting new movies to do so. In a Tuesday announcement, the company said it has so far reduced its costs by 60 percent and will take more measures to keep afloat. The plan to make this happen: raise the service’s cost to $15 a month in the next …

It’s the “Office Space” fantasy come true. Well, kind of. HP isn’t asking people to smash its printers to pieces, but the company is willing to pay people to break its software apart. On Tuesday, HP announced its first bug bounty program that specifically targets its printers, offering as much as $10,000 to hackers who can find vulnerabilities on its …

People just kept scooping up Apple’s iPhone X.  The company said Tuesday it sold 41.3 million iPhones in its fiscal third quarter. That performance isn’t bad for a gadget that’s been on the market for roughly six months, though it missed the consensus estimate of 41.8 million units, according to Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein. By comparison, the …