Siri no longer needs an internet connection for certain tasks. In iOS 15, Apple has focused on improving the Siri experience, including on-device processing and offline support. On-device Siri in iOS 15: How does it work? Offline support Compatible devices With speech recognition happening on your iPhone or iPad, rather than being sent off to
Read MorePádraig Belton / The Guardian: As TSMC pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050, a look at how the semiconductor industry is tackling its huge carbon footprint and resource consumption — As demand for chips surges, the semicondutor industry is trying to grapple with its huge carbon foot print — he semiconductor industry has
Read MoreAn image from Juno showing the clouds of Jupiter in astounding detail. On the evening of Sept. 13, something hit Jupiter, producing an explosion and a flash of light visible even to amateur astronomers with off-the-shelf telescopes. Now, the hunt is on to figure out what the impactor could have been. The collision was first
Read MoreBlue Bear Capital has raised a new $150 million fund that will be used to find and invest in startups developing technology aimed at speeding up the adoption and industrialization of renewable energy. This is the venture firm’s second fund, which it says is oversubscribed. Blue Bear has already backed nine new companies since 2020.
Read MoreHow often does this happen to you? You find yourself describing something that happened in a game to someone, and they’re not sure they know what part of the map you’re talking about, or they’ve never gotten that far. Wouldn’t it be cool to make a bookmark in a video game so you can jump
Read MoreGood morning! By the way, Steve Wozniak didn’t detail his Privateer space startup last week at the AMOS Tech 2021 conference. So, we just know the space junk ambitions remain in stealth, for now. Before we dive into today’s news, we’d like to thank today’s sponsor OnePlus! Save up to $219.99 with the OnePlus 9
Read MoreThere are some big savings to be had! What you need to know You can now buy a refurbished iPhone from Apple in Canada. The iPhone XS Max, and iPhone 11 are both available. Customers can save as much as $560. Following the announcement of the iPhone 13 last week, Apple has started selling refurbished
Read MoreFlorence Ion / Gizmodo: What to expect from Microsoft’s Surface event tomorrow: Surface Duo 2, Surface Book 4 with a redesigned tethered display, Surface Pro 8, Surface Pro X, and more — Get ready for all the new Surface hardware to help usher in the launch of Windows 11. — Alerts
Read MoreIgor Bonifacic Contributor Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Rivian announces membership plan with complementary charging and LTE connectivity Microsoft Office 2021 will be available on October 5th With iOS 15 now available to download, developers both big and small have started updating their apps to take advantage
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: BitClout creator raises $200M for “Decentralized Social”, a blockchain project with social tools such as profiles, from a16z, Sequoia, Coinbase, and others — Quick Take — BitClout’s creator has revealed his identity today. He is Nader Al-Naji, the founder of the stablecoin startup Basis that shut down in 2018.
Read MoreThe ultrawide all-in-one with its magnetically attached webcam. | Image: HP HP’s new Envy 34-inch All-In-One Desktop PC is a self-contained Windows 11 machine that’s available with comparable specs to a standalone gaming PC. It has a large 34-inch ultrawide IPS display (5120 x 2160), which can be powered by Nvidia’s RTX 3080 GPU and
Read MoreFirefly’s Reaver engine being test-fired. | Image: Firefly Aerospace A roughly $30 million handshake between two rivals is the latest display of consolidation in the small launch industry Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack is launching its new clips feature today, allowing coworkers to record video messages that exist in Slack channels. Clips supports audio from a microphone, alongside video and screen recordings. They’re designed to help teams communicate across various time zones, and cut down on the amount of meetings
Read MoreImage: PayPal PayPal is updating its mobile app with a new visual design, support for a high-yield savings account, and a way to find coupons in-app. In the past, the company prioritized sending and receiving money and cryptocurrencies, but its new app is trying to be a little bit of everything to everyone, and it’s
Read MoreThis is the HP Spectre x360 16. | HP HP makes some of the most gorgeous laptops you can buy, and its Spectre line is the most beautiful of them all. But the new Spectre x360 16, a 16-inch 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop, will flip that dynamic around. Not only is this laptop beautiful — this
Read MoreRuby on Rails 7, a planned upgrade to the 17-year-old web application framework, has moved to an alpha stage, with a new mechanism for writing JavaScript in Rails. Moving past the Webpacker tool for bundling JavaScript, which Ruby on Rails has used for the past five years, Rails 7 takes a no-Node approach, without having
Read MoreI’ve been hearing the arguments about the use of multicloud: best-of-breed cloud services, cost performance optimization, and, of course, redundancy by leveraging more than a single cloud provider brand. Businesses are using one cloud as a primary and a second cloud as a hot standby. Most are assuming that there will be a major outage
Read MoreThe decade-long legal battle between two of the world’s largest tech companies has finally come to an end. The result was a victory for the open-source software community. In case you need a refresher on the Oracle v. Google case, Oracle sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement on Google’s use of Oracle’s Java API
Read MoreWe’re excited to introduce the new and improved GFI FaxMaker which comes equipped with a new interface allowing administrators to easily monitor and manage all faxing and SMS activities. The post GFI FaxMaker makes it easy for administrators first appeared on GFI Blog.
Read More“It aims to create an algorithm to help detect childhood autism, according to the documents and people familiar with the work.” What you need to know Apple is reportedly working on major health upgrades to the iPhone. A new report says that it is working on a feature that could detect depression and cognitive decline
Read MoreiCloud+ has arrived with iOS 15, but what exactly is it, and how will it change how you use your devices? If you’ve used an Apple device for any extended period of time, you’re probably already familiar with iCloud, Apple’s content storage and syncing solution. However, you might be less au fait with iCloud+. Revealed
Read MoreRolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple is working with UCLA and Biogen to identify depression, cognitive decline, and other issues using sensor data, such as typing behavior and sleep — Company is working with UCLA, Biogen to see if sensitive data like facial expressions, typing metrics could signal mental-health concerns
Read MoreIt would be fair to say the pandemic has had enormous effects on the world of work, but it has come at a time when other factors were already ongoing. The decline of main-street shopping due to e-commerce has only been hastened. The shift to remote working has sky-rocketed. And people no longer want to
Read MorePaul Bischoff / Comparitech: Researcher finds data on 106M international visitors to Thailand, including passport numbers and travel records dating back a decade, were exposed on a database — An unsecured database containing international travel records dating back 10 years was left exposed on the web.
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Amsterdam-based Recharge, which offers digital vouchers for big brands like Apple and Xbox, raises $35M Series B and says it has over 3M customers — Amsterdam-based Recharge has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round. The startup operates in over 150 markets around the world …
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