Maybe Apple will never fully walk away from Europe, but the European Commission has just guaranteed that the citizens of its member states will always be the last to get new iPhone features — if they get them at all. Apple’s headquarters in Ireland, in the European Union Even before its latest legal requirements, the
Read MoreMaybe Apple will never fully walk away from Europe, but the European Commission has just guaranteed that the citizens of its member states will always be the last to get new iPhone features — if they get them at all. Apple’s headquarters in Ireland, in the European Union Even before its latest legal requirements, the
Read MoreThe new report has also found that a majority of CIOs have experienced financial benefits from integrating environmental technologies. Read more: CIOs facing growing pressure over tech ROI as investment continues
Read MoreNature: A Microsoft researcher [this week] presented results behind the company’s controversial claim last month to have created the first ‘topological’ qubits — a long-sought goal of quantum computing. In front of a packed room at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Chetan Nayak, a theoretical physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum computing effort in
Read MoreThe camera bump that wasn’t. Google just announced the Pixel 9A, surprising nobody because it’s been leaked to all heck. The camera bump is gone, it has a bigger screen, a Tensor G4 processor, and better water resistance, and it still starts at $499. It’s all looking like a pretty good deal, especially considering what
Read MoreGoogleâs latest acquisition is its most expensive yet â and perhaps its riskiest, too. On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it acquired the cloud security startup Wiz for $32 billion. Itâs a major bet that Wiz can help beef up Googleâs cloud business, which makes far less money than the offerings built by its
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Battery life; we can never have enough of it. Even though most smartphones from the past few years will easily take you through a day of use and possibly even two, the oldies among us still pine for those good old days when a single charge was enough to
Read MoreThe abstract of a paper published on National Bureau of Economic Research: Ensuring broad access to the patent system is crucial for fostering innovation and promoting economic growth. To support this goal, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers reduced fees for small and micro entities. This paper investigates whether fee rates affect the filing
Read MoreThe RCS Universal Profile v2.7 introduces new features like message editing and the ability to remotely delete sent texts. Google Messages has been working on implementing remote deletion since at least last month. While still not publicly available, we’re now able to preview how remote deletion will look in the app. RCS finally arrived in
Read MoreThe abstract of a paper published on National Bureau of Economic Research: Ensuring broad access to the patent system is crucial for fostering innovation and promoting economic growth. To support this goal, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers reduced fees for small and micro entities. This paper investigates whether fee rates affect the filing
Read MoreI was a Windows guy from the very beginning. I used Windows 1.02 on my IBM PS/2 Model 25 back in the late 1980s. I was thrilled to build applications for Windows 3.1 using Turbo Pascal for Windows. I remember how fun it was to allocate a whopping 2GB of RAM for an array. I stuck with Windows
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Sony is apparently working on a 200MP camera sensor for use as a main camera on smartphones. This means the company would join Samsung in offering a 200MP sensor. The new sensor is said to be a little larger than Samsung’s 200MP cameras. Samsung has long offered 200MP camera
Read MoreDuring the company’s GTC 2025 keynote today, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced Isaac GR00T N1 — the company’s first open-source, pre-trained yet customizable foundation model designed to accelerate the development and capabilities of humanoid robots. “The age of generalist robotics is here,” said Huang. “With Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1 and new data-generation and
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Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [A] team of Korean researchers [describe] how they’ve engineered a bacterial strain that can make a useful polymer starting with nothing but glucose as fuel. The system they developed is based on an enzyme that the bacteria use when they’re facing unusual nutritional conditions, and it
Read MoreInternet providers could be throttling your connection if you’re gaming or streaming too much. Here’s how a VPN for Mac can help prevent ISP traffic management from infringing on your fun. Browsing the Internet can be affected by ISP throttling schemes Over the years, Internet service providers (ISPs) have offered increasing amounts of bandwidth to
Read MoreInternet providers could be throttling your connection if you’re gaming or streaming too much. Here’s how a VPN for Mac can help prevent ISP traffic management from infringing on your fun. Browsing the Internet can be affected by ISP throttling schemes Over the years, Internet service providers (ISPs) have offered increasing amounts of bandwidth to
Read MoreTrend Micro uncovered an eight-year-long spying campaign exploiting a Windows vulnerability involving malicious .LNK shortcut files, which attackers padded with whitespace to conceal commands. Despite being reported to Microsoft in 2023, the company considers it a UI issue rather than a security risk and has not prioritized a fix. The Register reports: The attack method
Read MoreFrom iOS 18 when the Passwords app debuted to the iOS 18.2 update, users could have exposed passwords to a bad actor on a privileged network, but you’re likely safe. Apple Passwords left users open to targeted phishing attacks Apple released iOS 18 in September 2024 with the new Passwords app, but it relied on
Read More“The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See,” reported in 2023 by the New York Times, is now a criminal matter, as today prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged director Carl Erik Rinsch with wire fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. They allege that after Netflix (referred
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission has removed over 300 business guidance blogs published during former President Biden’s term, including consumer protection information on AI and privacy lawsuits against Amazon and Microsoft, WIRED reported Tuesday, citing current and former FTC employees. Deleted posts included guidance about Amazon’s alleged use of Ring camera data to train algorithms, Microsoft’s
Read MoreNvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the software benefits of the
Read MoreThe crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission pictured during an equipment test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | Image: SpaceX NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off successfully Friday night, taking its crew of four on their way to the International Space Station. Now that it’s there, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni
Read MoreBusiness is still booming for music streaming services, which crossed the 100 million US subscriber mark in 2024, according to the Record Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) latest revenue report. Overall sales were also bolstered by physical media, which is growing at a slightly faster rate than digital, thanks in large part to continually increasing
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance publicly acknowledged a simmering âtensionâ between two warring factions inside the Republican party â the populist MAGA right and the tech billionaires who threw their support to Donald Trump â and called for a truce. In remarks at Andreesen-Horowitzâs American Dynamism policy conference in Washington, DC, Vance, a former
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