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Apple and Qualcomm Legal Battle: 5G and National Security

Apple is in the position to explain to a U.S trade judge how iPhones that include Intel Crop. Chips should be allowed in the country, given the fact that they violate a Qualcomm Inc. patent. This is what this famous company has to do, according to an S. International Trade Commission hearing in Washington. This is a part of the legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm. The lawyers of the staff, together with ITC, decided that Judge Thomas Pender should rule that Apple actually violated one of three of the Qualcomm patents, regarding a battery-saving feature.

It’s all a race between United States of America and China: who’s going to release 5G first?

The staff also talked about a potential Intel-based iPhones that can run with a next-gen 5G that should be allowed in the country in order to not “surrender” in front of China. The lawyers of these two famous tech companies accepted to work on Friday in one of the four dozen legal cases which are pending in the whole world, and all of them are linked to a dispute regarding a license that lets mobile devices to communicate.

The ITC can block products from coming into the country that violets U.S patents. However, it has to consider the impact on both the economy and the public.

One of the staff’s lawyers, Lisa Murray, stated that iPhone that has Qualcomm chips (you know, the ones that Apple already sells?) could replace those iPhones that have Intel chips in the market. The problem is: how is a ban going to affect the U.S’s intentions to stay ahead of China in 5G. They also wonder if this is really in the best interest of the country.

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Cryptocurrency Mining Apps Banned From App Store, Announced Apple

Cryptocurrencies have been a real revolution in digital assets market at the end of last year. In spite of their great volatility, a large number of users decided to bet on them as a means of investment because, due to speculation, their value did not stop growing and analysts assured that in 2018 they could even triple their value. As a result of their popularity, many began to use cryptocurrency for malicious purposes, forcing large corporations and governments to establish a set of rules and regulations regarding its use and how to deal with it. Now, Apple banned cryptocurrency mining apps on its App Store.

Accordingly, there are many malicious developers hiding cryptocurrency mining scripts in their apps

After the chaos generated by the cryptocurrencies in the second half of 2017, the main software developers and governments are increasingly applying restrictive rules against these decentralized monetary units.

While Microsoft and Google are already quite clear on their position, it is now Apple’s turn to control the use that can be made of crypto coins in its systems.

Apple severely restricts the use of crypto-related apps on its systems, while cryptocurrency mining apps are strictly prohibited on App Store

Apple has just released an update to its Standards Guide for Application Development and Publishing, specifically in section 2.4.2 of the Hardware Compatibility section, which makes it clear that all types of applications that use the hardware of an iPhone, iPad, and even Mac computers are completely prohibited, and therefore cannot be published on the App Store under any circumstances.

The new standard indicates that no application can quickly drain the battery of the company’s devices, and this also includes background processing and advertising, ending applications that display banner ads that undermine cryptocurrencies at the expense of users’ computers’ processing power.

ICO apps have also undergone a major adjustment and to avoid new speculation and scams, Apple will only allow registered applications such as trading companies, banks, security firms, and FCM (Futures Commission Merchants) to publish these types of ICO apps on App Store.

In short, Apple has banned any kind of cryptocurrency mining app from App Store, in a movement to protect its users from scams and speculations.

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A Monero (XMR) Mining Malware Affects Mac Computers, Apple Reported

This week Apple reported a new background mining malware called MsHelper, which is remotely installed on Mac computers and serves as Monero (XMR) mining malware. The malware uses the computing power of the Mac computers to mine XMR, thus, is causing slower performance.

The malware was posted on Apple’s discussion forums, where users claimed that a newly installed program on their computers caused them to lose control over their computers and used a lot of the processing power of the CPUs as it mines XMR.

“I have MsHelper constantly showing up on the activity monitor with the CPU at super high levels. I probably wouldn’t have noticed it, except that I installed BitDefender today and it keeps showing me that it’s being deleted!” said Ron Edwards, the user who opened a topic on the covert crypto miner on an Apple community forum.

After several investigations, it was found that MsHelper is another version of the XMrig miner for Mac but used in a hostile way to enrich third parties at the expense of Apple Mac users.

The Mac Monero (XMR) mining malware apparently come with fake Adobe Flash Player, pirated content, or infected documents

According to Malwarebytes Labs, MsHelper is not a sophisticated malware, nor does it generate large vulnerabilities in the registration of user information. It is also not strong enough to be easily removed by Malwarebytes for Mac or manually.

It is believed that the virus that mines XMR is installed in computers by means of programs such as Adobe Flash Player in its false version which contains the dropper that injects the malware into the computer.

In this way, users would become infected with malware by downloading programs from piracy sites or misleading documents but it is not yet known exactly which software offer deceives users.

At the time of installation, the MsHelper mining Monero (XMR) malware deploys a launcher that is hosted in the support applications of the Mac operating system. This executable file is in charge of keeping the Monero (XMR) mining active on the computer and thus affects the performance of the computer.

Malwarebytes said that it is increasingly common for Apple devices to be covered up with versions of crypto miners malware, as there have already been problems with the Pwnet, CpuMeaner and CreativeUpdate programs, among others.

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Crypto

Apple Added TRON (TRX) Pricing On Its Stocks App, Next To XRP, BTC, And QTUM, Said Justin Sun, TRX Founder

Justin Sun, the owner of TRON (TRX), has announced this morning on his Twitter account the fact that Apple is backing the TRON Foundation by incorporating $TRX pricing into its stocks listing app.

Apple introduced TRON (TRX) prices to its stocks listing app

Apple has been extraordinarily enthusiastic regarding the expansion of blockchain technology, with the inclusion of cryptocurrencies such as Ripple (XRP) and Bitcoin (BTC).

QTUM crypto is another interesting listing on Apple stocks network. QTUM runs on a mixture of Bitcoin Core infrastructure and a version of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). QTUM is trading at $13.18, at the moment of this article.

So, by introducing TRX, Apple is simply defending a more widely available global digital currency by giving us insight into its prices, market capitalization holdings, and so on. Consumers need to append TRX/USD to Apple’s holdings app.

A Reddit user commented on this topic stating that:

They are certainly doing the right thing to be in the position they are in. Although I don’t like some of their tactics, I’m happy to let them make me money.

However, Justin Sun’s tweet got some very negative feedback, as the TRX’s founder has been accused of misleading the community members because Apple, supposedly, has nothing to do with the before-mentioned crypto’s addition.

Apple has always been a friend of cryptocurrency and now TRON (TRX) is promoted

Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, declared at the beginning of May that he sees the blockchain technology as a huge IT revolution. In the last 24 hours, TRX has been trading at a market capitalization of $4.62 billion and has experienced a 3.98 percent growth in the past 7 days.

TRX is presently being priced at $0.07 on Upbit, at the time of this article. TRON (TRX) can also be exchanged at Bithumb, Binance, and Bit-Z. The TRON community expects that this will ultimately raise its stocks, as traders will be better acquainted with market fluctuations prior to investing.

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Apple Gives Up the Actual Design – The Change Occurs Now

A new iPhone X variant for tech- lovers

The enigma regards the name of the new “baby-tech”. It is unclear whether what we are looking is the ‘iPhone SE2’ (expected to be called the iPhone SE, again) or the ‘iPhone X SE’ (unlikely to be its final name), which means is a more expensive model – though still extremely affordable by expansion of the iPhone X line.

Apple adopts a hybrid design. The phone will be added a glass back to enable wireless charging. Unfortunately, the new model will not keep the iPhone SE’s headphone jack. But the changes are not always bad, right?

All about its dimensions

It supposes a bezel-less front display and Face ID technology, but the size is the same a little bit smaller than iPhone SE. New iPhone’s dimensions as 121.04 x 55.82 mm (4.8 x 2.2-inches) – fractionally smaller than the 123.8 x 58.6 mm (4.87 x 2.31-inches) of the iPhone SE. So the display is approximately 5-inches, given the iPhone X a 5.8-inch display, bigger than the 4.7-inch of  iPhone 8.

Probably Apple will only produce a second generation iPhone X and larger iPhone X Plus later this year. Even the most trustful sources cannot predict what model will be. If you ask me, then I would like to see an ‘iPhone SE 2’. I will also like it to be cheaper, but I guess this new model may be an internal upgrade of the current SE, so the price will be set near iPhone X and iPhone X Plus.

Anyway, I am surprised by the fact that the bigger models are getting cheaper, so this new model, which will be smaller than the older ones, have a great potential of being set at a higher price.

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