Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Like many other smart devices, iPhones don’t immediately wipe deleted photos. Instead, they hide them locally in an inaccessible location. iOS 17.5’s photo bug didn’t involve any Apple or iCloud servers; it strictly occurred on the local storage of affected users’ iPhones. Claims about deleted photos reappearing on wiped
Read MoreMoby plans to expand its Dublin fleet to 1,500, while Free Now said the service mirrors its offerings in other markets such as the UK, France, Germany and Spain. Read more: Free Now partners with Moby to offer Dublin e-bike service
Read MoreWith backing from A16z, Sequoia Capital and others, xAI plans to bring its first products to market and challenge other players in the AI sector. Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6bn to grow its Grok chatbots
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Samsung is reportedly working on One UI 6.1.1 for the Galaxy S24 Ultra and the S24 series at large. It’s believed that this update would bring plenty of camera-focused tweaks. History tells us that this update will likely land after Samsung’s foldables are launched. Samsung launched the Galaxy S24
Read MoreDespite advances in cloud computing, mobile development, and AI, the day-to-day business of enterprises around the world still runs on three programming languages that made their debut in the 1990s. In nearly every ranking system, JavaScript, Python, and Java appear near the top of the most popular languages. To read this article in full, please
Read MoreWhether OpenAI did or didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice to front ChatGPT’s “Sky” personality, it’s somewhat telling that people don’t seem to find it hard to imagine OpenAI CEO Sam Altman capable of the misappropriation. Despite the promise of AI, we keep seeing examples of AI run amok, as with Google’s attempts to set AI
Read MoreDevops continues to grow in popularity as organizations look for ways to add efficiencies to the development process. Research and Markets, a market research firm, predicts that the worldwide market for devops tools and services will grow from $10.56 billion in 2023 to $29.79 billion in 2028. Among the drivers for devops are increased demand
Read MoreUnder the leadership of CEO Padraig Coffey, Zartis has been expanding its international presence rapidly and serves customers including ESW, Fexco and Kaluza. Read more: Cork-based Zartis gets €10m funding to double size by 2028
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp continues to develop app customization features for its iOS client, with the latest beta build referencing new chat themes. Apart from the default green shade, users may be able to pick between blue, white, pink, and purple. This color would apply to the chat bubbles and wallpaper. WhatsApp
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has mandated apps that create user accounts to also allow for account and data deletion within the app and through the web. The enforcement deadline for app developers is May 31, 2024. Ahead of the deadline, the “Account deletion available” badge is now live in the Google Play
Read MoreGalaxy S24 Ultra Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra’s camera specs have apparently leaked online. Samsung’s Ultra phone could get a 50MP 3x camera and a 50MP ultrawide lens. The phone could stick with a 200MP main camera and 50MP 5x shooter, though. We’ve already seen several Galaxy S25 series
Read MoreAndrea Stephany Diaz was only 24 when she first had the idea for her start-up. Two years later, that idea is well on its way to becoming a gamechanger in health. Read more: OncoSwab: Making lung cancer detection as easy as a Covid-19 test
Read MoreSpectrum.Life is expanding rapidly across Ireland and the UK and plans to use the fresh funds to grow its team and reach new customers. Read more: Digital health start-up Spectrum.Life raises €17m for expansion
Read MoreStudies show ultraprocessed food “encourages overeating but may leave the eater undernourished,” writes Ars Technica. But the food industry’s response has been “a ferocious campaign against regulation.” In part it has used the same lobbying playbook as its fight against labeling and taxation of “junk food” high in calories: big spending to influence policymakers. FT
Read MoreMinister Patrick O’Donovan said the successful projects are solving some major challenges facing society across healthcare, the environment and technology. Read more: 28 projects across Ireland bag €34m in SFI research funding
Read MoreApple Authorized Resellers Amazon and B&H Photo are engaged in a price war on the M3 Max MacBook Pro 16-inch, driving the high-end model with a top-of-the-line 40-core GPU and 48GB RAM down to $3,699. Save $300 on a loaded M3 Max MacBook Pro. This loaded 16-inch MacBook Pro is equipped with Apple’s top-of-the-line M3
Read MoreThis week the Washington Post noted that just last year nearly 1.2 million more electric vehicles were sold in America, “accounting for over 7 percent of total new car sales and a new national record.” But “data show that EV sales are far outpacing growth in the U.S. charging network… In 2016, there were seven
Read MoreDogs have had the crypto market on the leash for a long time. For a better perspective, four out of the top five meme coins are dog coins. The crowd of dog coins have saturated the market. They have little that differentiates them from each other. If the grand opening of the KAI presale is
Read More“About 1 in 9 children in the U.S., between the ages of 3 and 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD,” reports NPR: That’s according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that calls attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder an “expanding public health concern.” Researchers found that in 2022, 7.1 million kids and adolescents
Read MoreWe’re all used to wireless networking, but if there’s one thing the ubiquitous WiFi on 2.4 or 5 GHz lacks, it’s range. Inside buildings, it will be stopped in its tracks by anything more than a mediocre wall, and outside, it can be difficult to connect at any useful rate more than a few tens
Read More“Merged this Friday evening into the Linux 6.10 kernel is the new mseal() system call for memory sealing,” reports Phoronix: The mseal system call was led by Jeff Xu of Google’s Chrome team. The goal with memory sealing is to also protect the memory mapping itself against modification. The new mseal Linux documentation explains: “Modern
Read MoreAnother day, another crop of newly minted minimal astronauts, as Blue Origin’s New Shepard made a successful suborbital flight this week. Everything seemed to go according to plan, at least until right at the end, when an “unexpected foliage contingency” made astronaut egress a little more complicated than usual. The New Shepard capsule had the
Read MoreWill Major League Baseball games use “automated” umpires next year to watch pitches from home plate and call balls and strikes? “We still have some technical issues,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday. NBC News reports: “We haven’t made as much progress in the minor leagues this year as we sort of hoped at this
Read More“64% of Americans live within 2 miles of a public charging station,” Pew Research reported this week, citing a survey paired with an analysis of U.S. Energy Department data that found over 61,000 publicly accessible charging stations. And those who live closest to public chargers “view EVs more positively.” The vast majority of EV charging
Read MoreSome of us may have recently stumbled over these mysterious ‘Mini 560’ synchronous buck converter modules at various e-shopping websites. These little modules claim to take in 7-20 VDC and output whatever voltage they’re configured for (e.g., 5 VDC). What IC is used on these modules? Since the IC on these modules has had its
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