Apple reportedly making Dr Dre biopic – starring and executive-produced by Dre

Apple Music division’s first TV project to be six-part series titled Vital Signs about rap mogul, whose headphones and streaming service were bought by tech giant

Setting the date to 1 January 1970 will brick your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

Date bug will prevent 64-bit iOS devices from booting up, rendering them inoperable even through fail-safe restore methods using iTunes

No surprises: how unexpected album drops became the norm

Rihanna, Beyoncé, Pixies, Bowie and Radiohead all sidestepped industry traditions by dropping albums with no warning. But now we all expect the unexpected, has the trick lost its excitement?

Y’all have a Texas accent? Siri (and the world) might be slowly killing it

Voice recognition technology such as Siri still struggles to understand regional quirks and accents, and users are evolving to compensate

Fifty apps that are reinventing mobile gaming

Solve a murder mystery, grow a tree, spend the day as a sailor, be a spider… mobile developers are rethinking everything

When self-monitoring becomes uncomfortably intimate…

The fitness tracker craze has taken a paternalistic turn with a US university asking students to wear wristbands. Has datafication gone too far?

Apple says iPhone ‘Error 53′ is to protect customers’ security

Security measure is necessary to prevent use of fraudulent parts, says company, after thousands of users affected

Which is the best TV and movies streaming service?

We compare Netflix, Amazon, Sky, Wuki, TalkTalk TV(Blinkbox), Google Play and iTunes

Google’s Alphabet set to overtake Apple as world’s most valuable company

The search engine’s parent company performed better than expected Monday with a value of $518bn after investors were given inside look into tech company

Tech company encryption push is ‘good for the feds’ says Harvard study

The rise of mobile computing and more vulnerable internet-connected devices could actually make surveillance easier for national security officials, report says

Meet Viv: the AI that wants to read your mind and run your life

The team behind Siri have a new idea: a voice-controlled personal assistant that will take care of your every need

Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo: the challengers leading China’s charge against Apple

The US giant’s flat results are in part due to low-cost rivals thriving in the world’s biggest smartphone market

Sorry, Google: California’s self-driving car bill would prioritize unknown rival

The bill, AB1592, would permit autonomous vehicles ‘not equipped with a steering wheel, a brake pedal, an accelerator, or an operator inside the vehicle’

Apple boss says virtual reality is ‘really cool’ – but what will he do with it?

Tim Cook sees some ‘interesting applications’ around VR, but Apple has already filed headset patents, hired a VR expert and funded 360-degree music videos

Apple iPhone sales flatline as growth falls well short of expectations

Sales of its top-selling device grew by only 0.4% over the holidays, compared with 46% over same period last year, but company posts record revenues