The US state’s attorney general claims fraud victims were scammed out of millions and that Citibank denied these victims help or refunds. Read more: New York sues Citi for allegedly failing to protect fraud victims
Read MoreAfter a month of beta testing, OnePlus is rolling out the first stable build of Oxygen OS 14 based on Android 14 for the OnePlus Open. This update is rolling out to users in India, with a priority rollout to closed and open beta participants. Other regions are also expected to get the update soon.
Read MoreMacworld As you’re probably aware, there was a big anniversary last week. But the Mac wasn’t the only venerable Apple-related institution to hit the big four-oh on January 24. Once Steve Jobs wowed the 1984 Apple Investor Meeting at the Flint Center in Cupertino with his introduction of the original Macintosh, attendees emerged from the
Read MoreEpic Games has alleged in a court filing that Apple hasn’t complied with court orders, and must to more to allow developers to point users to subscriptions outside the App Store. Apple App Store icon While the long-running Epic Games vs Apple legal battle appeared to end in mid-January 2024, the “Fortnite” maker has filed
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung is reportedly testing a bigger battery in the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 6 foldable. It’s believed that the device could offer a 4,000mAh battery, making it 300mAh larger than the Z Flip 5. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip phones have been the most popular clamshell foldable phones for years
Read MoreThe biggest record label in the world has called out TikTok for attempting to ‘intimidate’ the group during recent talks to renew a music deal today. Read more: Universal Music ticks off TikTok for ‘bullying’ in deal talks
Read MoreSpaceX revealed that it’s delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, according to engineer Travis Brashears. “We’re passing over terabits per second [of data] every day across 9,000 lasers,” Brashears said today at SPIE Photonics West, an event in San Francisco focused on the latest advancements in optics and light. “We actually
Read MoreThe article, Machine learning for Java developers: Algorithms for machine learning, introduced setting up a machine learning algorithm and developing a prediction function in Java. Readers learned the inner workings of a machine learning algorithm and walked through the process of developing and training a model. This article picks up where that one left off.
Read MoreMicrosoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in popularity. Thanks to Microsoft’s Python extension for Visual Studio Code, VS Code has also become one of the best tools for working with
Read MoreA scanning probe microscope comes in a wide variety of flavors, they all produce a set of data points containing the measurements at each location. Usually these data points form a regular 2D grid, but it can be more beneficial to change the density of measurements at certain locations, or even the height, which creates
Read MoreLike every Apple device, your iPhone has a Mac address that uniquely identifies your devices to participate in a network. Basically, a MAC address is a unique alphanumeric code assigned to the NIC card. The MAC address (Media Access Control) serves as a digital footprint, allowing your iPhone to be identified over a network. If
Read MoreThe two companies both saw a boost in overall revenue and their cloud businesses, but this wasn’t enough to really impress investors. Read more: Microsoft and Alphabet earnings disappoint despite AI boom
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The latest update to the Fitbit Charge 5 is reportedly causing excessive battery drain and bricking devices. This is a repeat of an incident from July 2023, which caused the same issues. The two updates even have the same changelog. There is no way to stop the Fitbit
Read MoreMacworld With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, you might be struggling to find a special gift for a loved one who loves all things film. We have a suggestion: a Kodak film and slide scanner. This Kodak device is perfect for reviving old memories and keeping them fresh for years to come. It offers a
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Bullitt Group, the company behind rugged phones from CAT, Land Rover, and Motorola, has apparently shut down. Employees confirmed the firm’s closure on LinkedIn, coming a few weeks after it was reported to be in trouble. Bullitt Group was one of the most prominent rugged phone manufacturers around, being
Read MoreAlex Chriss, who took over as CEO last September, said that the fintech giant needs to make some ‘difficult but necessary decisions to get us to where we need to go’. Read more: PayPal layoffs to affect 9pc of global workforce
Read MoreCredit: Google Google’s updated Password Manager is now available on Pixel 5a and newer Pixel phones and the Pixel Tablet. This updated Google Password Manager can identify accounts that support passkey and help users upgrade to a passkey within a few clicks. Google has also announced new partner apps and services for easy passkey upgradation.
Read MoreRather than chasing pure performance and high quality graphics like other gaming companies, Nintendo has made a name for themselves over the last few decades by favoring not only artistic design and gameplay, but the physical design of the game systems. Of course the hybrid handheld Switch console is among these, but it also includes
Read MoreIn a regulatory filing today, Dell revealed that it has terminated its distribution deal for VMware products. The deal was made in November 2021 before VMware was acquired by Broadcom. The Register reports: That agreement was struck on the same day Dell and VMware parted ways — back when Big Mike’s Bespoke Computer Barn decided
Read MoreCork’s Clodagh Ryan travelled through South Korea, Goa, Sydney, professional services and adtech before coming home to set up workplace wellbeing start-up Craoi. Read more: The key to happiness at work? Practice what you preach, says this founder
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Alphabet has announced that its subscriptions reached $15 billion in annual revenue. The company singled out YouTube subscriptions as being the main reason for improved revenue in this segment. The tech giant also saw increased revenue from YouTube ads, coming as users reported more ads and scam ads. Google
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has revealed plans to charge for a Bard Advanced subscription. Bard is currently free to use, but Bard Advanced will run on the company’s more powerful Gemini Ultra AI model. It would be capable of performing highly complex tasks. Google is riding high on subscription revenue right now.
Read MoreFor the first time, Microsoft’s Q2 earnings report includes the impact of the company’s $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition. “While Microsoft isn’t breaking out specific numbers, it says that its overall gaming revenue increased by 49 percent, 44 points of which came from the ‘net impact’ of the Activision deal,” reports Engadget. From the report:
Read MoreGoogle has confirmed to Cord Cutters News that you can now customize what games you can watch in your Multiview window. The keyword here is “games” because this feature is still limited to just sporting events at this time. From the report: One of YouTube TV’s best features is the ability to offer the option
Read MoreTodd Bishop reports via GeekWire: A Microsoft AI engineering leader says he discovered vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generator in early December allowing users to bypass safety guardrails to create violent and explicit images, and that the company impeded his previous attempt to bring public attention to the issue. The emergence of explicit deepfake
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