Apple has continued to improve its voice-based iOS virtual assistant since launching it a few years ago, but Siri still isn’t perfect and might cause some unexpected headaches. In fact, a recent study from AAA and the University of Utah found that Siri and similar hands-free voice-activated assistants can distract drivers rather than help them while on the road. And Jimmy Kimmel did not miss that opportunity to make fun of Apple’s Siri during Tuesday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show.

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There are plenty of great announced iOS 8 features that Apple didn’t actually release with the first iteration of the platform, but we’re pretty sure that you’re going to be getting a lot more of them with the release of iOS 8.1 later this year. MacRumors points out that iOS developer Hamza Sood has found one such feature hiding in plain sight in the latest iOS 8.1 beta: The setup screen of the Apple Pay mobile payments platform.

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Since iOS 8 was released to the public last month, we have seen dozens of guides that show off tips and tricks to help users take full advantage of all the new features. These guides are clearly useful since iOS 8 is packed with so much great new functionality, but none of them really take into account the millions of people who might not think all of those new features are so great. For the many iOS users out there who aren’t as open to change, or who want to get rid of some of the new things they might not have a use for, there are 10 iOS 8 features in particular that you might want to disable.

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Apple has coined a new name for the higher resolution iPhone 6 displays, introducing “Retina HD” to describe the iPhone 6’s 1334 x 750 (326ppi) screen and the iPhone 6 Plus’s 1920 x 1080 (401ppi) display. The same name might be used in the near future for iPad displays as well, developer Hamza Sood has suggested, after looking at assets in the recently released iOS 8.1 beta 2.

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Thursday is a new day and with it, new paid iPhone and iPad apps have been made available for free for a limited time. Solid paid apps on sale for free have been a bit scarce this week, but things definitely picked up on Thursday and we’ve put together a great list of seven iPhone and iPad apps that are normally worth a combined $56, but you can download each and every one of them for free right now if you hurry.

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Software update delays are an inevitability because of the way the Android ecosystem is built, but these delays aren’t just an annoyance for Android users — they can be dangerous. A bug was discovered by security researcher Rafay Baloch in early September, and it caused Android’s stock web browser to fail to enforce same origin policy (SOP), which is a protocol that governs how browsers securely load content from multiple sources. The bug impacted all pre-KitKat devices, and it was patched fairly quickly by Google.

But because it takes so long for handset makers and carriers to test and distribute Android updates, a new study has determined that nearly half of all Android phones are still affected by the bug.

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Unofficial statistics and Apple’s own iOS adoption stats have revealed that iOS 8 isn’t as “popular” as its predecessors when it comes to fast updates — iOS 8 was installed on 47% of iOS devices 20 days following its release, while iOS 7 was installed on 70% of devices in the same period of time. There may be plenty of reasons for why some iOS device users keep away from iOS 8, but Apple blogger John Gruber thinks he has figured out users’ main concern.

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The bigger 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet was supposed to enter production in December, The Wall Street Journal has learned, but that isn’t happening anymore because Apple suppliers are still struggling to meet tremendous iPhone 6 demand.

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Microsoft’s attempts to convince you that your next computing machine shouldn’t be an iPad or a MacBook Air, or any other tablet or laptop for that matter, apparently aren’t working in the company’s favor, a new report from Digitimes says. The publication says it learned from sources familiar with the upstream supply chain that the Windows maker is already considering discontinuing its Surface tablet line, as Surface Pro 3 demand isn’t as hot as expected.

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