Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ event live blog: iPads all the way down
Image: Apple We’re expecting a new iPad Pro, iPad Air, and a few new accessories. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Apple We’re expecting a new iPad Pro, iPad Air, and a few new accessories. Continue reading…
Read MoreWesley Yin-Poole, reporting for IGN: Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm. Alpha Dog Studios, maker of mobile game Mighty Doom, will also close. Roundhouse Games will be absorbed by
Read MoreIn a typical move for Apple, the online Apple Store has been taken down shortly before the company’s Let Loose event. It’s probably to prepare for new iPad models. The Apple Store Down message with the Let Loose event logo The online version of the Apple Store usually goes offline ahead of Apple’s special events.
Read MoreImage: The Verge In an email to staff sent this morning, head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty announced the closure of several game studios, including Redfall developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Studios, and more. According to the email, as first reported by IGN, Booty wrote the reason for the
Read MoreCredit: DoorDash DoorDash could let you tap your bank card to your Android phone phone to verify it’s really you. This would require a chip-and-pin card as well as NFC on your Android phone. DoorDash is one of the most popular food delivery apps in the US, duking it out with Uber Eats, Grubhub, and
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The Disney Plus app will soon have a tile dedicated to ESPN Plus. Disney announced the news as part of its earnings results released on Tuesday and says the integration will become available by the end of this year. During the company’s earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger
Read MoreMicrosoft is said to be entering another player into the AI model market, with its newest iteration titled ‘Mai-1,’ and reports suggest it could be better than the rest. Although the technology giant has already invested over $10 billion into OpenAI, the company is said to be training a new in-house AI model that can
Read MoreMacworld When the Apple Store goes offline it’s usually an indication that Apple is about to launch a new product. However, that’s not always the case—on May 7, the morning of the Let Loose iPad event, Apple didn’t pull its store offline as it usually does. Why is the Apple Store down? Are you having
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whatever it’s called, it sounds like it’s coming soon. Continue reading…
Read MoreIt’s all about the widgets. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge It feels like everywhere you look, there’s a Mother’s Day sale going on. Many of these promos are pretty meh, but Amazon’s latest sale on Echo devices is worth a look if you’re looking for some relatively inexpensive picks. Right now,
Read MoreThe Apple AirPods (2nd Gen) were so well crafted that they still make good wireless earbuds in 2024. They’re still relatively expensive for the same reason, but Amazon just gave you a chance to save big on the AirPods 2. A $49 discount has dropped the price of the buds to just $79.99. Apple AirPods
Read MoreAda County has rolled out a first-of-its-kind transparency tool that even election conspiracy theorists can get behind.
Read MoreThe company has put out a call for skilled Java and .Net cloud software engineers, with the development expected to boost IT employment in the region. Read more: INIT to more than double its Irish workforce, amid Maynooth expansion
Read MoreAutomation has been a part of the Internet since long before the appearance of the World Wide Web and the first web browsers, but it’s become a significantly larger part of total traffic the past decade. A recent report by cyber security services company Imperva pins the level of automated traffic (‘bots’) at roughly fifty
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A previously leaked magic button has debuted on Walmart’s latest Google TV box. This button allows you to quickly launch a desired app or switch source inputs. We first heard about a new button for Google TV remotes last year, and we expected this so-called magic button to debut
Read MoreApple has been researching how to make a small, wearable loudspeaker that would use beamformed audio to make it clearly audible to the wearer, yet not disturb anyone else. Detail from the patent showing Bod wearing an audio device Apple calls a newly-granted patent by the name, “Wearable Device with Directional Audio,” but it’s really
Read MoreThe President of Nintendo has confirmed the announcement of the Switch 2 will be “within this fiscal year,” as speculation continues. On Tuesday (May 7) Shuntaro Furukawa took to the Nintendo Co Ltd X account to share the news that many fans will be excited about. As the rumor mill has been going into overdrive
Read MoreThe Swedish government has proposed discontinuing the Casino Cosmopol gambling business from state-owned operator Svenska Spel. On May 7, the Swedish government stated that the casino business “no longer fulfils its purpose,” noting on going challenges preventing Casino Cosmopol from reaching profitability. This includes the closure of two sites at the end of 2023 and
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing its investigations into cryptocurrency exchanges, with the potential to sue Robinhood Markets. The SEC, in its role as an agency responsible for regulating the securities markets and protecting investors, could sue US-based Robinhood Markets over securities violations alleged in the popular crypto app. In a recent SEC
Read MoreOracle has announced Oracle Code Assist, an AI-powered coding assistant that will provide developers with context-specific suggestions that can be tailored to an organization’s best practices and codebases. Oracle did not provide an availability date for Oracle Code Assist, but said that developers at Oracle have been using the tool to build Oracle products and
Read MoreUsers will need to buy new versions of products like the YubiKey 5 NFC (pictured) to benefit from the firmware update. | Image: Yubico Yubico is getting ready to launch refreshed versions of its YubiKey 5, Security Key, and Security Key Enterprise Edition series authentication hardware that aim to help organizations move away from password-based
Read MoreMacworld The Macalope asks, do you want AI fast, or do you want it right? The Washington Post, it seems, wants it fast. “Apple is behind in AI and killed its self-driving car project. What’s next?” Based on the implications here, we can safely assume it’s one or more of the following: Filing for bankruptcy.
Read MoreMacworld We’d given up hope for a spring event this year, but Apple surprised us by issuing invites to an event on May 7, 2024. So it turns out that big things are brewing at Apple Park after all, and we are about to find out what they are. In this article, we explain what
Read MoreMicrosoft is reportedly working on a new large language model (LLM) to take on Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4. Codenamed MAI-1, the new LLM is currently in the development phase and is being led by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI, The Information reported citing two sources. To read this article in
Read MoreJust last month, prime minister Rishi Sunak revealed that the UK would increase its defence spending to 2.5pc of GDP by 2030 amid increasing foreign threats. Read more: UK defence ministry data hacked, reports point to China
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