Prof Fergal Malone says it’s important for doctors to challenge conventional wisdom to ensure that contemporary medical practices are ‘safe, effective and appropriate’. Read more: How this Rotunda consultant delivers pregnancy research
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: 37Signals is not a company that makes its policy or management decisions quietly. The productivity software company was an avowedly Mac-centric shop until Apple’s move to kill home screen web apps (or Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs) led the firm and its very-public-facing co-founder, David Heinemeier
Read MoreThe Samsung Health app is getting three new features in the latest update. The latest update simplifies access to health records, managing medications, and tracking food intake. Samsung is also expanding some features of the Health app to new countries.
Read MoreA handy new feature of macOS Sequoia allows a mounted volume to self-eject once a process copying files from it ends. Here’s how to use it. Ejecting Finder volumes when copies complete. If you’ve ever copied a large file from a mounted .dmg file in macOS, you’ll know how annoying it can be to have
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Many iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max users are complaining of random reboots on their devices. Users are affected on iOS 18.0.1 stable and iOS 18.1 beta. The issue is not seen on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, as well as on older iPhones. Apple has fixed
Read MoreOpinion post by Mishaal Rahman Xiaomi is using the ultra low-power co-processor found in its 2024 flagship phones to boost Fast Pair responsiveness. Fast Pair is the feature that lets you pair your phone to Bluetooth accessories with a single tap. Xiaomi is using Android’s Context Hub Runtime Environment to offload Fast Pair scanning to
Read MoreTikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, fired an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its AI models. However, the firm “rejected claims about the extent of the damage caused by the unnamed individual, saying they ‘contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies,’” reports the BBC. From the report: The Chinese technology giant’s Doubao ChatGPT-like generative
Read MoreIn the wake of Java Development Kit (JDK) 23, which arrived September 17, work has begun on JDK 24, with five features so far proposed for the release: stream gatherers, a vector API, a class-file API, warnings to prepare developers for future restrictions on the use of JNI (Java Native Interface), and a late barrier
Read MoreThe iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini are all expected to receive the M4 chip later this month in the form of an online-focused event. Apple could introduce a redesigned Mac mini with M4 While Apple recently announced the seventh-generation iPad mini through a simple press release, new Mac computers will reportedly be revealed via
Read MoreBattery life is one of the most important factors if you want to enjoy your mobile devices. After all, what good is an excellent smartphone if it’s always dead? And since most manufacturers no longer include chargers, you need to make sure you find a great one. Here are a couple of deals on two
Read MoreAndroid 15 blocks untrusted apps from reading sensitive notifications, even if they have permission to read all notifications. Before Android 15, apps with notification access were able to read all incoming notifications, even ones with OTP codes. Now, though, only certain trusted apps can read OTP codes from notifications. Your phone’s notifications panel is a
Read MoreThe iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini are all expected to receive the M4 chip later this month in the form of an online-focused event. Apple could introduce a redesigned Mac mini with M4 While Apple recently announced the seventh-generation iPad mini through a simple press release, new Mac computers will reportedly be revealed via
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network in the wake of a report that nearly one-third of the agency’s cameras along the US-Mexico border don’t work. Privacy advocates say this is just the latest instance of
Read MoreThe 8 Elite comes with a new Oryon CPU. | Image: Qualcomm Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrf7rsYF20A Qualcomm’s next-gen mobile processor is here, and it looks like an absolute unit. The Snapdragon 8 Elite sports a return to a custom CPU design, a brand-new GPU architecture, and even snappier AI smarts. If you’re wondering how all this compares to today’s best smartphones, Qualcomm has some preliminary benchmark figures to share with
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority If you’ve read any of Android Authority‘s CPU deep dives, you’re hopefully a bona fide expert on the ins and outs of how processors work. But don’t worry if not. These topics are dense and require a lot of background knowledge to get to grips with fully. It’s taken
Read MoreImage: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The Annihilation author talks about jumping back into the Southern Reach series 10 years later and whether this is truly the end of the story. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe industry has been saying Apple is behind and asking when the iPhone maker would ever bring out AI — but the industry has always underestimated Apple. Today, toward the end of 2024, Apple Intelligence has still not yet been deployed. What frame of reference is there for postulating how important it is for “first
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Android 15 is a surprisingly feature-packed update, even though it does not come off as such a significant update. Considering how incremental several past updates have been, Android 15 features a lot of good changes that enhance the overall platform experience. We asked you what your favorite features are,
Read MoreImage: AMD AMD is officially announcing its first next-generation X3D desktop processors today, based on its latest Zen 5 architecture. I’d love to tell you which Ryzen 9000-series X3D chips are arriving next month, but AMD is strangely only teasing a release date of November 7th and providing no pricing or further details. AMD has
Read MoreA price war has developed between Amazon and Best Buy, with Apple’s M3 MacBook Air now marked down to just $899. Save $200 on Apple’s M3 MacBook Air. We covered a $200 price drop on the upgraded 13-inch MacBook Air with 16GB RAM/512GB storage earlier today, but the same $200 discount is now in effect
Read MoreInternet Archive founder Brewster Kahle highlighted a recent wave of attacks on libraries and archives across the globe and hopes that they are ‘not indicative of a trend’. Read more: Internet Archive suffers yet another cyberattack
Read MoreAhead of it rolling out to users, Tim Cook says that Apple Intelligence is already changing lives — including his own. Tim Cook — image credit: Apple Apple has been reported to be as much as two years behind the rest of the artificial intelligence industry, and CEO Tim Cook does not care. On the
Read MoreSimply telling playtesters not to share any details hasn’t exactly worked out. | Image: The Verge Nintendo has updated the official website for its mysterious “Switch Online: Playtest Program” today, privately revealing more information to participants about what it entails. The playtest is running from October 23rd, 9PM ET until November 5th, 8PM ET, and
Read MoreA team at the university’s Hamilton Institute will investigate how computers of the future could run on DNA. Read more: Maynooth University bags €4m for DNA computing project
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