UK pleads with Apple to unlock access to its NFC chips, Apple says "tough luck"

So, Brexit is something that hasn't been in the news cycle in a while — certainly not in tech news. But it's still a thing that's happening — the UK is set to "leave" the European Union in March of next year. With that, as you probably can imagine, there's a ton of legal matters that need to be settled. The status of EU citizens that live and work in the UK is among them.

The British Home Office is developing an app to make it super-easy for the affected people to apply for a "settled" status in the UK. All they'd need to do is answer a few questions, take a selfie of themselves, and ...