The investigations should take a maximum of five months. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple and Microsoft have managed to temporarily prevent iMessage and Bing being subjected to obligations under the EU’s strict new Digital Markets Act. Instead, the European Commission announced on Wednesday that it’s opened four market investigations into Bing,
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A veteran tipster has claimed that smartphones with 32GB of RAM are being tested. This comes a short while after the first phones with 24GB of RAM were released. We’ve recently seen the first phones with 24GB of RAM launching in China, delivering a crazy amount of RAM for
Read MoreNode.js 20.6.0, the latest version of the asynchronous, event-driven JavaScript runtime, includes built-in env. file support for configuring environment variables. The update, cited as the “current” version of Node.js and announced September 4, can be downloaded from the project website. With env., Node.js proponents said the configuration file should follow the INI file format, with each
Read MoreHapi is a Node.js framework in the vein of Express but with a handful of distinguishing ideas, including a no-dependency, high-quality code stack; powerful configuration options; and fine-tuned extensibility that covers many use cases. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich said of Hapi that it “provides the right set of core APIs and extensible plugins to support the
Read MorePython comes with a collection of built-in data types that make common data-wrangling operations easy. Among them is the list, a simple but versatile collection type. With a Python list, you can group Python objects together in a one-dimensional row that allows objects to be accessed by position, added, removed, sorted, and subdivided. Python list basics
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: KKR plans to float chip equipment maker Hitachi Kokusai Electric in Tokyo, aiming for a ~$2.7B valuation, up 60% from KKR’s 2017 acquisition price — Private equity group aims to float Hitachi Kokusai Electric at valuation that would make it Japan’s biggest initial public offering since 2018
Read MoreA graphic showing the companies and services being designated as gatekeepers. (Click here for higher resolution image.) | Image: European Commission The European Commission has officially confirmed which tech companies, and which of their services, count as “gatekeepers” under its strict new Digital Markets Act (DMA). The companies listed all appeared on a provisional list
Read MoreGoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman confirmed a new 360-degree GoPro Max camera “is in the works and will be worth the wait” at the GoPro 12 launch event. This update was a long time coming – the original GoPro Max was released all the way back in October 2019. We reached out to GoPro
Read MoreKate Duffy / Bloomberg: The UK says a bug caused its air traffic system to confuse two checkpoints 4,000 nautical miles apart, leading to a huge outage, and plans to review the issue — – Checkpoints 4,000 miles apart had duplicate identifiers — System update in the works, NATS says after day of disruption
Read MoreSamuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU lists the 22 services falling under the Digital Markets Act, including TikTok and Facebook, and will assess if Microsoft’s services and iMessage qualify — – Tech firms set to challenge EU in digital antitrust clampdown — Apple’s App Store, Google Search, Amazon marketplace on list
Read MoreNew York Times: A look at U.S. et al v. Google, the federal government’s first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, set to last 10 weeks; top execs are likely to testify — The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business
Read MoreMike Scarcella / Reuters: A US judge denies Apple’s efforts to block Eddy Cue and two executives testifying in a DOJ case over Google’s market dominance, set to begin on September 12 — Three senior Apple (AAPL.O) executives have lost their bid to stop the U.S. Justice Department from calling them as witnesses …
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The European Commission has revealed its list of gatekeeper platforms. These platforms will need to open up to rivals within six months. Designated gatekeepers include Android, iOS, Windows, Google Play, and the Apple App Store. The European Commission signed the Digital Markets Act (DMA) last year, which would
Read MoreSelf-driving-car pioneer and Aurora chief executive Chris Urmson insists his driverless trucks won’t put people out of jobs—even as he moves full speed ahead with his company’s self-driving software.
Read MoreThe Vibrio vulnificus pathogen thrives in hot coastal waters, and beachgoers can contract it via a small cut or scrape. It can also kill them in two days.
Read MoreChatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of.
Read MoreImage: Getty Waymo is using insurance data to make the case that its self-driving cars are safer than human drivers. The report, a result of the collaboration first announced last year between the Alphabet-owned company and the insurer Swiss Re, is intended to show how driverless vehicles crash less often and damage less property than
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A veteran tipster has claimed that smartphones with 32GB of RAM are being tested. This comes a short while after the first phones with 24GB of RAM were released. We’ve recently seen the first phones with 24GB of RAM launching in China, delivering a crazy amount of RAM for
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: Mozilla finds that 25 major car brands examined fail to adhere to the most basic privacy and security standards in their new internet-connected models — Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand’s new internet-connected models flunked privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla.
Read MoreYoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: Sources: China orders officials at central government agencies not to use iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work or bring them into the office — The directive is the latest step in Beijing’s campaign to cut reliance on foreign technology and could hurt Apple’s business in the country.
Read MoreApple is no stranger to criticism regarding battery life on its devices. Historically, iPhone battery life was weak, though things have improved. But what about Apple’s laptops? How long does a MacBook battery last? Let’s take a look. QUICK ANSWER
Read MorePerhaps it’s a side-effect of getting older, but it seems like reading the color bands on blue metal-film resistors is harder than it was on the old brown carbon ones. So often the multimeter has to come out to check, but it’s annoying. Thus we rather like [Mike]’s Resistorganizer, which automates the process of keeping
Read MoreZuha Siddiqui / Rest of World: Pakistan’s tech workers are leaving the country, as funding dries up, companies close, and more; data: 800K+ Pakistanis got jobs abroad in 2022, up 189% YoY — Inflation and dried-up VC funding have caused the country’s tech ecosystem to plummet, prompting young people to search for greener pastures abroad.
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The new straps with the one-click release mechanism on the Galaxy Watch 6 series can have their release buttons accidentally pressed. This happens when the watch is worn snugly over the wristbone and can cause the watch to fall off the wrist. Users can explore older straps and bands
Read MoreImage: Ultimate Ears Where do you go next after branding your speakers with names like the Boom, Megaboom, Hyperboom, and Wonderboom? Well, apparently the natural progression has led Ultimate Ears to none other than “Epicboom.” That’s the new speaker that the company just announced today. It’s a chunky device that gives off more of a
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