Free credits in your Amazon account? Apple pays up after price-fixing suit
Company begins paying out more than $400m to customers who were overcharged for ebooks
Refugee rescue app pulled from App Store after it is outed as fake
The I Sea app claimed to help people call lifeboats to refugees by locating their vessels, but actually showed static images of the sea
Apple barred from selling iPhones 6 in Beijing
Reports that the capital’s intellectual property regulator has accused Apple of infringing design patents for a Chinese phone
Take that, FBI: Apple goes all in on encryption
Apple’s newest encryption tool better secures files on all its devices, just the latest in a move to widespread encryption in the tech industry
iOS 10 brings bigger emojis, better Siri and facial recognition to iPhone
Apple launch new version of iPad and iPhone operating system, including redesigned Apple Music, internet of things Home app, and new Apple Watch OS
10 of the best virtual reality apps for your smartphone
Get started with VR on your iPhone or Android phone with these 100 apps, spanning films, games, news and 360-degree photo-sharing
The female orgasm simulation game that’s too hot for Apple to touch
La Petite Mort offers a ‘one of a kind digital erotic experience’ and aims to normalise discussion of female pleasure, but it has not been warmly embraced by all
Apple cuts same-sex parents from Mother’s Day ads in six countries
Video campaign in Germany, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Turkey is altered by company whose boss is openly gay
20 of the best iPhone and iPad apps and games this month
New iOS apps of May 2016 include Relay, Opera VPN and Spaces, and games include Bushido Bear, Hungry Shark World and GodFinger 2
After the iPhone: Apple eyes Time Warner and TV for its next act
Apple wants to diversify beyond its signature product, and has considered buying the owner of HBO and Warner Bros movie studio – but that’s not all, folks
The Y2K aesthetic: who knew the look of the year 2000 would endure?
From fashion and architecture to music and art, the optimism and techno-utopianism of the early 2000s found its way into every element of design
Google Allo: new messaging app is latest to fight FBI over encryption
Messaging tool will have ‘incognito mode’ that offers end-to-end encryption, making it difficult for law enforcement to recover messages during investigations
Google Assistant takes on Amazon and Apple to be the ultimate digital butler
Alphabet’s flagship company unveiled smart speaker Google Home, which it says will let people turn on their lights and surf the web, among other things
Warren Buffett buys $1bn of Apple stocks in first for Berkshire Hathaway
Conglomerate buys 9.8m shares of Apple in surprise move that equates to a bet that shares will rebound after sales dropped for first time in more than a decade
Five of the best tablets
The new generation of mobile computers are powerful, sleek and able to cope with the demands of both work and play. We tried and tested some of the frontrunners