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Apple is reportedly looking at whether to let you change some default iOS apps to alternatives from its rivals. The tech giant is considering letting people chose third-party mail and web browser apps as their default options on iPhones and iPads, according to a report Thursday from Bloomberg.  The change would let you replace Apple’s …

Microsoft on Thursday said it plans to bring its antivirus software, Defender Advanced Threat Protection, to phones and other devices running Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.  The software, also called Defender ATP, is already available on Windows and MacOS. It offers features like preventive protection, post-breach detection and automated investigation and response, according to Microsoft.  When it comes to mobile …

One night in early December, a man carrying a bottle of champagne and flowers showed up at Apple CEO Tim Cook’s home. He returned a month later, entering the property’s gate without permission and ringing the doorbell. Those interactions — along with phone calls, making what Apple describes in a legal filing as “threatening statements” — led the company to …

I called it last month: 2020 will be the year of active noise canceling, as headphone makers scramble to compete with Apple’s insanely popular (and extremely good) AirPods Pro. Among the first fruits of that labor: a new product in Aukey’s Key Series lineup. It ticks nearly all the important boxes, but costs significantly less — and today even less …

Verizon on Thursday is playing defense against a report that it was no longer interested in carrying Google’s Pixel line of phones, including the upcoming rumored Pixel 4A and Pixel 5 that are expected to be released this year.  “It’s not true,” Verizon spokeswoman Adria Tomaszewski told CNET. “We continue to work with Google and look forward to the new …

Photoshop on iPad will probably be great when it grows up, but at least it’s moved on from toddlerhood. Adobe obviously spent a long time laying the groundwork for this generation of its mobile apps, but after its official launch it still had that inevitable minimum viable product feel (a personal pet peeve). With its first major feature update since it …

Computer scientist and user interface guru Larry Tesler, a key figure at Apple during its early years, died Monday at the age of 74, according to Apple Insider. Tesler pioneered the concept of “cut-copy-paste” during his time at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s. In the following two decades at Apple, he would be deeply involved in …

Every now and again I find myself in an Apple Store. When I see customers buying things like MacBooks ($600 at Amazon) and iPads ($170 at Amazon), I want to grab them by the shoulders and cry, “Wait! You can get these for less!” How? By venturing online, where Apple’s Refurbished Store carries a rotating selection of products that are …

This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Get ready for a different dynamic in the desert now that Michael Bloomberg has qualified for his first presidential debate. The former mayor of New York entered the race late, but made up for lost time by spending millions of his own money on …

Android app developers will soon need approval from the Google Play team before accessing a user’s location data in the background, according to an Android Developers Blog post Wednesday. In determining approval, the new Google Play policy will consider whether the app’s location-tapping feature delivers clear value to the user, if the feature is important to the primary purpose of …