Apple Pay could soon be available to a larger number of users in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as additional credit card networks in the region are expected to introduce support for the contactless payment service. Apple Pay could soon be available to more users in Qatar and the UAE. Apple Pay has existed
Read MoreNew iPhones for the AI era. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The wait is over — kind of. Apple’s iPhone 16 series is out, including the kinda affordable 16E, and its much-hyped Apple Intelligence has arrived courtesy of iOS 18.1. But if you’re expecting an entirely new kind of iPhone experience, well, I
Read MoreApple is set to discontinue support for the older version of its HomeKit architecture, meaning that users will be forced to upgrade with the release of iOS 18.4. Users of iOS 18.4 will likely be required to upgrade to the newer HomeKit architecture. On Monday, Apple released the third developer beta of iOS 18.4. While
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: HP, along with other printer brands, is infamous for issuing firmware updates that brick already-purchased printers that have tried to use third-party ink. In a new form of frustration, HP is now being accused of issuing a firmware update that broke customers’ laser printers — even
Read MoreOn this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, we dive into more Amazon hardware arriving this fall, a leaked sensor from Ikea, evidence of Apple’s smart home display, and the delay of Apple’s next-gen Siri. HomeKit Insider Podcast As Apple’s smart home plans remain in flux, code discovered in tvOS 18.4 reveal Apple has added
Read MoreMicrosoft has started sending out invites to a 50th anniversary and Copilot event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The April 4th event will take place on the day Microsoft marks 50 years since it was first founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. The event on Microsoft’s campus will include an
Read MoreApple’s third developer beta round for the current generatioh of updates is out, with new builds of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, tvOS 18.4, watchOS 11.4, and visionOS 2.4 set for testing. Examples of Apple Intelligence at work. The new third beta round follows after the second for iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4,
Read MoreA protest at a Tesla dealership in Chicago had a heavy police presence. | Image: Anadolu via Getty Images This weekend, protests escalated at Tesla showrooms across the nation. Hundreds of people gathered to boycott Elon Musk and his involvement in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which
Read MoreA protest at a Tesla dealership in Chicago had a heavy police presence. | Image: Anadolu via Getty Images This weekend, protests escalated at Tesla showrooms across the nation. Hundreds of people gathered to boycott Elon Musk and his involvement in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which
Read MoreThe set will tower over the rest of Lego’s Mario Kart collection that was announced last year. | Image: Lego Lego has announced a new addition to its Mario Kart collection that first debuted last August. But don’t expect Lego’s latest Super Mario set to fit in with the rest of the racers. At 12.5
Read MoreThis yearâs iPad Air was a surprise to me. Apple launched the last Air less than a year ago, and that was a very good device that could already support Apple Intelligence â and most of Appleâs recent gadget upgrades have been about supporting Apple Intelligence. I figured Apple might launch a better Magic Keyboard
Read MoreDespite Health Canada approving AirPods Pro 2 as hearing aids, Canadians are still unable to use feature because of still further regulatory hurdles which look unlikely to be cleared. AirPods Pro Apple updated AirPods Pro 2 to act as both a hearing test and hearing aids for US users in October 2024, and it’s been
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority Australia’s regulatory agency has recalled the Pixel 4a over a battery overheating risk. This is the first time we’re learning why Google rushed out the Pixel 4a’s Battery Performance Program update, as the company chose to remain vague in its announcement post. The Pixel 4a had a great run
Read MoreResearch from the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI), shows there has been an uptick in how often people are targeted by scams via their communication devices. Read more: Less than one-third of Irish people taking basic online precautions
Read MoreI regret to inform you that vibes don’t pay the bills. Specifically, open source vibes. For as long as I’ve followed open source, there has been a tendency for the industry to focus on normative values of open source, i.e., why people should embrace open source, as if it were a morally superior way to
Read MoreMacworld It’s frustrating when your MacBook’s sleek design comes at the cost of functionality—just USB-C ports and no way to adjust the screen height. That’s probably why everyone’s grabbing this MacBook stand with a built-in hub to avoid annoyances and neck pains. Laptop stands are nothing new, but this one’s neck is filled with ports
Read MoreFounded in 2016, this cybersecurity start-up uses on-device network traffic inspection to secure mobile devices from cyberthreats. Read more: Corrata: Protecting employee mobile devices from cyberthreats
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don’t have to wonder anymore. Just watch the video below. We will warn you of two things. First, the video takes
Read MoreNominated for 10 Oscars, The Brutalist (directed and produced by Brady Corbet) has an “intriguing and controversial technical feature,” according to the Baffler, that threatens to turn movie-viewing into “a drab appreciation of machine-managed flawlessness, and acting less interesting…” In January, the film’s editor Dávid Jancsó revealed that he and Corbet used tools from AI
Read MoreRed Hat product manager Pau Garcia Quiles (also long-time Slashdot reader paugq) spotted an interesting project on GitHub: Free95, a new lean, Windows-compatible operating system is available from GitHub. In its current form, it can run very basic Win32 GUI and console applications, but its developer promises to keep working on it to reach DirectX
Read MoreRed Hat product manager Pau Garcia Quiles (also long-time Slashdot reader paugq) spotted an interesting project on GitHub: Free95, a new lean, Windows-compatible operating system is available from GitHub. In its current form, it can run very basic Win32 GUI and console applications, but its developer promises to keep working on it to reach DirectX
Read MoreAdafruit Industries used large language model (LLM) tool Claude Code to streamline hardware development, writes managing director ptorrone. In a demo video Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried compares the LLM’s command-line interface to working with the build-automation tool CMake or “a weird cross between IRC and a BBS.” The first step was converting a PDF of the
Read MoreAdafruit Industries used large language model (LLM) tool Claude Code to streamline hardware development, writes managing director ptorrone. In a demo video Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried compares the LLM’s command-line interface to working with the build-automation tool CMake or “a weird cross between IRC and a BBS.” The first step was converting a PDF of the
Read MoreIt’s been a busy week in space news, and very little of it was good. We’ll start with the one winner of the week, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which landed successfully on the Moon’s surface on March 2. The lander is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and carries ten scientific payloads,
Read MoreIt’s been a busy week in space news, and very little of it was good. We’ll start with the one winner of the week, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which landed successfully on the Moon’s surface on March 2. The lander is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and carries ten scientific payloads,
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