Apple is shelling out up to a half-a-billion-dollars because of a lawsuit accusing the company of intentionally slowing down older iPhones. A judge in San Jose approved the settlement Monday. Apple denied allegations of trying to get people to buy new phones or batteries while slowing down older models, but executives say they’re settling to […]

I-Phones are about to go green. Apple plans to use recycled rare earth metals to build the Taptic Engine. That’s the part that lets the iPhones mimic a button click. The company will start off using an outside supplier, but hopes to eventually gets robots to recover the metals. Apple is also looking into how […]