Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp passkey support is rolling out to iPhone users as an alternative to SMS login codes. Passkeys on WhatsApp don’t necessarily make your account more secure, and we advise you to enable the separate 2FA feature. Once set up, your WhatsApp passkey will be stored in Apple’s iCloud Keychain
Read MoreMacworld Apple’s M3 chip has been available since the end of October 2023. It features in the MacBook Pro M3 and iMac and was recently added to the MacBook Air, but it is still absent from the Mac mini. How long will we have to wait for Apple to roll out the M3 to the
Read MoreMacworld Apple announces a May 7 event. Is FineWoven done for? Is there a big change in store for the Calculator app? We talk about the latest rumors and news bits in this episode of the Macworld Podcast! This is episode 881 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman Loyola. Listen to episode 881 on
Read MoreBattery technology is the major limiting factor for the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and grid-level energy storage. Marginal improvements have been made for lithium cells in the past decade but the technology has arguably been fairly stagnant, at least on massive industrial scales. At smaller levels there have been some more outside-of-the-box developments for
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority The beta version of the ChatGPT app for Android now lets you edit existing prompts. This feature is also available in the regular version of the app for iOS. This means you don’t have to type a new message if you made a typo or want to refine your
Read MoreIBM said the deal continues its focus in hybrid cloud and AI, while Hashicorp believes the deal will help it reach a much broader audience. Read more: IBM to expand cloud offering with $6.4bn HashiCorp deal
Read MoreMacworld With news that iPadOS 18 might bring a calculator to the iPad we’ll refresh our memories as to why the iPad doesn’t have a calculator right now, and what the alternatives are if you want to do some math and it’s the only device you have handy. Ever since the iPad first arrived, there’s
Read MoreWith annual recurring revenue doubling in its latest fiscal year, Tines has been steadily growing headcount across its offices in Dublin, Boston and San Francisco. Read more: Irish ‘soonicorn’ Tines raises $50m for workflow automation
Read MorePlatform engineering is becoming a compelling concept for enterprises, as they’re devoting increasingly large amounts of resources into cloud-native application development. It doesn’t matter if you’re using your own Kubernetes instances in your data centers, or working with managed environments in public clouds, you’re going to need to understand how they’re operating, taking advantage of
Read MoreThe OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro have received their final scheduled update. This last update brings the April 2024 security patch. This closes the book on the 2020 flagship phones, which received three Android OS updates and four years of security patches. The OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro were two of the better
Read MoreSuperhero games have had a rough time of it lately with both Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and Marvel’s Avengers both not exactly capturing fan’s attention for very long. Marvel Rivals looks to change that, bringing in Overwatch-esque gameplay that many know and love. If hearing that has piqued your interest, we’ll reveal all
Read MoreDepartment of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced new rules for the airline industry that will require airlines to automatically give cash refunds to passengers for canceled and significantly delayed flights. They will also require airlines to give cash refunds if your bags are lost and not delivered within 12 hours. “This is a big day
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority T-Mobile is making some important changes to its SIM change process to make SIM swap scams much harder. A new Account Change Engine determines the legitimacy of SIM change requests. Customers now also need to confirm a SIM change instead of denying the SIM change under the previous system.
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg said the Facebook parent continues to make ‘steady progress’ in the metaverse as Threads reaches a milestone of 150m monthly active users. Read more: Meta revenue soars but metaverse costs make investors wary
Read MoreThe Fibonacci system is a sequence of numbers that can be applied to betting on casino or sports games. Often referred to as the Fibonacci sequence, created by Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, this system dictates staking levels by adding numbers together, with the overriding target being to end the session in profit. So, how can
Read MoreIn the world of software development the term ‘optimization’ is generally reason for experienced developers to start feeling decidedly nervous, especially when a feature is marked as an ‘easy and free optimization’. The final keyword introduced in C++11 is one of such features. It promises a way to speed up object-oriented code by omitting the
Read MoreSamantha Cole reports via 404 Media: A Japan-based online art platform is banning kink content for users based in the US and UK, as laws in these countries continue to tighten around sites that allow erotic content. Pixiv is an image gallery site where artists primarily share illustrations, manga, and novels. The site announced on
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that makes it possible to spy on what users are typing. The vulnerability, which allows the keystroke data that these apps send to the cloud to be intercepted, has existed
Read More[samsuksiri] frequently uses a laptop and has an external drive to store projects. The drive flops around on the end of its tether and gets in the way, so they repurposed their old iPod pouch and attached it to the laptop lid with double-sided tape. You can guess how that went — the weight of
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube Music has vowed to become the “ultimate destination” for podcasts. The platform feels its podcast recommendations are its “secret sauce.” However, users who moved from Google Podcasts aren’t pleased with the new experience. YouTube Music wants to be the “ultimate destination for podcasters and fans alike,” the company
Read MoreHartley Charlton reports via MacRumors: Apple is said to be developing its own AI server processor using TSMC’s 3nm process, targeting mass production by the second half of 2025. According to a post by the Weibo user known as “Phone Chip Expert,” Apple has ambitious plans to design its own artificial intelligence server processor. The
Read MoreOver the past century or so we’ve come up with some clever ways of manipulating photons to do all kinds of interesting things. From lighting to televisions and computer screens to communication, including radio and fiber-optics, there’s a lot that can be done with these wave-particles and a lot of overlap in their uses as
Read MoreAxon on Tuesday announced a new tool called Draft One that uses artificial intelligence built on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo model to transcribe audio from body cameras and automatically turn it into a police report. Axon CEO Rick Smith told Forbes that police officers will then be able to review the document to ensure accuracy. From
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don’t expect it to create profits anytime soon. That was the message from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investors during Wednesday’s call for the company’s first-quarter earnings report. Having just put its ChatGPT competitor in a bunch of places
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Network security appliances like firewalls are meant to keep hackers out. Instead, digital intruders are increasingly targeting them as the weak link that lets them pillage the very systems those devices are meant to protect. In the case of one hacking campaign over recent months, Cisco is
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