What you need to know WhatsApp continues to test a new Communities tab in its iPhone app. The Communities tab will be a place for groups to live. The Communities tab isn’t yet available for beta testers. The Communities tab will house group chats but isn’t yet ready for primetime. The popular instant messaging app
Read MoreThe S20 Ultra’s giant camera assembly, courtesy of iFixit. Smartphones have long been treated as disposable objects — use them for two years, and then it’s time to upgrade to a new model. As phones have gotten more capable, users have started to expect longer support and better repair options. But repairing a phone by
Read MoreWhat you need to know Western Australian police cars are now making use of CarPlay to give officers access to information. Motorola Solutions has integrated CarPlay support into the existing OnceForce Core application. The CarPlay support includes voice input for hands-free use. Some Australian police officers can now use an iPhone and CarPlay while on
Read MoreFinextra: French startup Budget Insight, which helps clients initiate payments and aggregate financial data and documents, raises $35M from PSG Equity — Budget Insight, the leading aggregator of banking and financial data in France and a pioneer of Open Finance in Europe, is pleased to announce $35m …
Read More(Photo: Airbus)The world’s largest passenger airliner has completed a test flight using cooking oil for fuel. The Airbus A380, a massive wide-body airliner used by international commercial airlines like British Airways, Emirates, and Korean Air, touched down Friday after a successful test flight from Airbus’ French headquarters in Toulouse. The plane was powered by Sustainable
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has added pull tabs to the iPad Air’s battery to make it easier to remove. Previous iPad Air batteries were firmly affixed. Apple seems to be listening to people who find it difficult to repair its products. Apple released its latest iPad Air last month but there is one
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Modern smartphones are capable of capturing some amazing images and videos in the right conditions, but what if you can’t actually choose between shooting a video or taking a photo?
Read MoreIn the iPhone 13 Pro Max, Apple’s largest handset, you get 28 hours of video between battery charges. If that’s still not enough for you, there’s a limited number of battery cases for iPhone 13 Pro Max on the market. These come in various styles at different price points. Our favorites are listed below. Massive
Read MoreEva Dou / Washington Post: Huawei promotes CFO Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, as one of three rotating chairs, six months after her detention in Canada — SHANGHAI — Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has promoted chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to a key role just half a year …
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Good news for the more budget-conscious, the OnePlus 10 Pro can be yours for a quite reasonable $899. That’s $70 less than last year’s entry-level model and $170 cheaper than the 12GB OnePlus 9 Pro that US buyers were stuck with. A price cut is a rare thing to
Read More“To many, AI is just a horrible Steven Spielberg movie. To others, it’s the next generation of learning computers. But what is artificial intelligence, exactly? The answer depends on who you ask. Broadly, artificial intelligence (AI) is the combination of computer science and robust datasets, deployed to solve some kind of problem. Many definitions of
Read MoreAh, the halcyon days of developers as kingmakers, of developers calling all the shots, of developers turning to open source and cloud to route around barriers to productivity (like Legal! Purchasing! Security! Operations!). Of course, those days never existed. Not perfectly, anyway—and thank goodness. It turns out that in a world increasingly composed of software,
Read MoreI recently wrote about five ways spreadsheets kill your business. Spreadsheets are a versatile tool for performing quick, ad hoc data analysis, developing presentation materials, creating small knowledge bases, and collaborating with small teams. But when spreadsheets become operational tools in recurring business processes, the manual effort required to maintain data quality and develop workflows can
Read MoreAnyone with “machine learning” in their job title, or even in their sphere of knowledge, is in a good career place these days. People with skills and experience in machine learning are in high demand, and that definitely includes machine learning engineers. According to the research firm Markets and Markets, the demand for machine learning
Read MoreTom Matsuda / The Block: German startup lemon.markets, which makes APIs for developers to build stock trading features, raises a €15M seed led by Lakestar and Lightspeed — Quick Take — Stock trading API startup lemon.markets has raised €15 million ($17 million) in a seed round led by Lakestar …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ has signed three new names for its upcoming drama Bad Monkey. L. Scott Caldwell, Ronald Peet, and Charlotte Lawrence are all signed on alongside Vince Vaughn. Three new names are on the roster for Bad Monkey. The upcoming Apple TV+ show Bad Monkey has signed three new cast
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority While 2020’s OnePlus 8 Pro managed to stay below the dreaded $1,000 mark, 2021’s OnePlus 9 Pro breached this barrier for the first time in the brand’s history. Now that the OnePlus 10 Pro is around, the base price has been taken down to $900, which is better, but
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ has signed Rachel Zegler to voice the main character in Spellbound. Spellbound is an animated movie from Apple Original Movies and Skydance Animation. Rachel Zegler has signed on to voice the main character. Apple TV+ has reportedly signed West Side Story star Rachel Zegler to be the voice
Read MoreBloomberg: Filing: Elon Musk takes a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter; Twitter shares rise about 26% in pre-market trading — Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, according to a 13G filing, Bloomberg News reports. Twitter rose about 26% in pre-market trading.
Read MoreWhat you need to know Ricardo Chavira has signed on for the third season of Truth Be Told. The third season of the show already has Gabrielle Union involved. Truth Be Told seasons one and two are already available to stream on Apple TV+. Ricardo Chavira joins Gabrielle Union in signing on for the show’s
Read MoreElon Musk at the opening of Tesla’s German factory. | Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk now owns 9.2 percent of Twitter according to a 13G filing released today, Bloomberg News reports. According to the filing, Musk purchased the stake on March 14th. Musk has long been one of Twitter’s
Read MoreReuters: Sources: Truth Social’s CTO Josh Adams and product chief Billy Boozer have quit, following a troubled launch for the Trump-backed social network — The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump’s Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: How Brad Smith helps Microsoft avoid government scrutiny by being amicable with regulators while directing negative attention at the company’s Big Tech rivals — President Brad Smith has taken an amicable role with regulators. Rivals say he also directs negative attention toward them.
Read More(Image: Slingshot Aerospace)The US Space Force (USSF) has secured a $25 million contract with an aerospace startup to virtually prepare for future collisions. Slingshot Aerospace has spent the last two years developing its Digital Space Twin, a product that “reflects the current state of space at any given moment” and allows users to simulate or
Read MoreWhatsApp is purportedly working on a way to make it easier to chat with unsaved numbers. It looks like there’s still room for improvement though. WhatsApp is the communications app of choice for loads of people around the world, delivering a host of features alongside standard text chats. But one weird limitation is that you
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