An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans’ views of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg skew more negative than positive. While Zuckerberg has sparked chatter in Silicon Valley with his sudden interest in high fashion, the Meta CEO is less popular than President Trump’s right-hand
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans’ views of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg skew more negative than positive. While Zuckerberg has sparked chatter in Silicon Valley with his sudden interest in high fashion, the Meta CEO is less popular than President Trump’s right-hand
Read MoreThe first developer beta of iOS 18.4 features significant changes to Apple Intelligence and Apple News+. Here’s what you need to know. The iOS 18.4 developer beta features a variety of enhancements. On Friday, Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.4, with build number 22E5200s. The software update comes more than a week
Read MoreThe Register’s Lindsay Clark reports: Fifteen years of big data hype, and guess what? Less than one in four of those in charge of analytics projects actually measure the value of the activity to the organization they work for. The result from Gartner — a staggering one considering the attention heaped on big data and
Read MoreThe European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it’s meant that some of the world’s biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU’s digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as “gatekeepers.”
Read MoreThe European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it’s meant that some of the world’s biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU’s digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as “gatekeepers.”
Read MoreA GSA-owned EV charger. | Image: GSA The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down all of its electric vehicle chargers nationwide, describing them as “not mission critical.” The agency, which manages contracts for the government’s vehicle fleets, is also looking to offload newly purchased
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority ChatGPT has crossed 400 million weekly users, marking a 33% increase in just three months despite rising AI competition. More people are adopting ChatGPT through word of mouth, with personal use driving its continued growth. OpenAI’s enterprise business is also expanding, now with 2 million paying users as companies
Read MoreApple just dropped visionOS 2.4 Beta, packing powerful new tools, a new guest experience, a fresh Spatial Gallery app, and the debut of Apple Intelligence on Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro Apple is kicking off 2025 with a bang, unveiling the visionOS 2.4 Beta packed with exciting features that set the stage for the upcoming
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority New York City is making T-Mobile the city’s exclusive network provider for municipal operations and public safety communications. The deal gives first responders priority access to T-Mobile’s 5G network with faster speeds, lower congestion, and new tech. City employees and their families will get exclusive perks on T-Mobile plans,
Read MoreHP has ended its controversial practice of imposing mandatory 15-minute wait times for customer support calls in several European countries, following internal pushback and customer complaints. The company confirmed the reversal and said it will “continue to prioritize timely access to live phone support.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Read MoreRather than comply with a UK order to make a backdoor into encrypted data, Apple has announced it will no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in that country. UK Parliament In 2024, the UK revamped its UK Investigatory Powers Act of 2016 to give itself the authority to legally — and secretly — compel Apple
Read MoreApple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’
Read MoreNow some hours after preorders for the iPhone 16e opened, every configuration remains in stock to deliver on February 28. Maybe Apple has made sufficient iPhone 16e models, since it isn’t selling out as normal Back in September 2024, the iPhone 16 Pro Max was selling so well that within 18 minutes certain configurations were
Read MoreThe iPhone SE 4 – no, wait, the iPhone 16e – is out and it’s a huge change of direction for Apple’s lowest-cost iPhone. Plus there are yet more rumors about the iPhone 17, and the Humane AI Pin bows out very badly. Apple’s new iPhone 16e We expected the new iPhone to be good,
Read MoreThe Nothing Phone 3A and 3A Pro have leaked in new images and videos that show off the two phones’ designs and detail the key specs. So far, the two phones appear to be almost identical, with only two camera changes — and slightly different rear camera designs — to pull them apart. First Android
Read MoreAs usual for an Apple release, the online version of the Apple Store has temporarily gone offline, in preparation for preorders of the iPhone 16e. Apple’s latest Store Down message Launched on February 19, the iPhone 16e is the latest iPhone in Apple’s range. The spiritual successor to the iPhone SE, the new entry-level model
Read More‘A lack of policy clarity is putting future investment at risk,’ Maurice Mortell, co-chair of the strategic advisory board said. Read more: Ireland ‘must take an active role’ to enable AI growth
Read MoreAndroid 16 is implementing support for true HDR screenshots, enabling you to take screenshots of HDR content. This capability is live in Android 16 Beta 2 and builds upon the previous work that Google did to support HDR in Android screenshots. However, HDR screenshots captured by Android aren’t easy to view on other devices. The
Read MoreA new AI tool developed by Google solved a decade-long superbug mystery in just two days, reaching the same conclusion as Professor Jose R Penades’ unpublished research and even offering additional, promising hypotheses. The BBC reports: The researchers have been trying to find out how some superbugs – dangerous germs that are resistant to antibiotics
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority Samsung has released One UI 7 beta 5 for the Galaxy S24 series. The update fixes a VVM crash issue and is smaller in size than the previous beta 4 update. It’s rolling out to US users, and its early arrival contradicts some leaks. Just two days after releasing
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority Samsung has released One UI 7 beta 5 for the Galaxy S24 series. The update fixes a VVM crash issue and is smaller in size than the previous beta 4 update. It’s rolling out to US users, and its early arrival contradicts some leaks. Just two days after releasing
Read MoreCredit: Android Headlines A ton of Nothing Phone 3a and 3a Pro renders have just been posted online. The images reveal Glyph lighting on the back and an extra hardware button on both models. Nothing will launch these phones on March 4. The Nothing Phone 3a series will launch in a few weeks, and we’ve
Read MoreCredit: Android Headlines A ton of Nothing Phone 3a and 3a Pro renders have just been posted online. The images reveal Glyph lighting on the back and an extra hardware button on both models. Nothing will launch these phones on March 4. The Nothing Phone 3a series will launch in a few weeks, and we’ve
Read MoreElon Musk spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, giving a strange and often inarticulate on-stage interview to Newsmax presenter Rob Schmitt. Schmitt was all smiles and enthusiasm, and managed to steer Musk through the half hour, never pausing to look back on the obvious logical inconsistencies, various falsehoods, and mathematical errors
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