Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Apple acquired Canadian AI startup DarwinAI, which specializes in creating smaller and faster AI systems. This move could be a step towards building on-device AI capabilities for upcoming Apple products. Apple is expected to showcase new AI features in Siri, Messages, and more at WWDC in June. The battle
Read MoreTwo of the biggest manufacturers of locks used in commercial safes have been accused of essentially putting backdoors in at least some of their products in a new letter by Senator Ron Wyden. 404 Media: Wyden is urging the U.S. government to explicitly warn the public about the vulnerabilities, which Wyden says could be exploited
Read MoreImage: iFixit via YouTube The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s antitrust division filed a comment with the US Copyright Office asking for an expanded exemption to copyright law for the right to repair certain devices. The comment was submitted on Thursday, amid the Copyright Office’s deliberations over whether to issue new exemptions
Read MoreThe SpyraGo electric water blaster | Image: Spyra Would you pay $180 for a USB-C water blaster that blasts an entire shot glass full of liquid every time you pull the trigger? That’s been Spyra’s pitch for the past six years, but today it’s revealing a new toy that costs (and weighs) less than a
Read MoreMicrosoft has eliminated egress fees for customers removing data from its Azure cloud, joining Amazon Web Services and Google in this move. The decision comes as the European Data Act’s provisions targeting lock-in terms are set to take effect in 2025. Microsoft adds: Azure already offers the first 100GB/month of egressed data for free to
Read MoreImage: Netflix A seventh season of Black Mirror is on the way. Netflix has confirmed that Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi anthology will return in 2025 and that the new season will be six episodes long. There aren’t many details yet, of course. But the company does say that, while it’ll otherwise consist of new stories, one
Read MoreThe Sonoma 14.4 update is causing more problems, this time with printers by removing or corrupting the drivers needed to print, and there is not yet a comprehensive solution to the issue. The latest macOS Sonoma update is breaking printers We recently learned of an issue where updating macOS to Sonoma 14.4 caused some USB
Read MoreAround 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the latest escalation in a surprising culture war.
Read MoreFrance Travail, the government agency responsible for assisting the unemployed, has fallen victim to a massive data breach exposing the personal information of up to 43 million French citizens dating back two decades, the department announced on Wednesday. The incident, which has been reported to the country’s data protection watchdog (CNIL), is the latest in
Read MoreShazam is the greatest music identification app ever made; it can identify songs playing around you. The music identification feature is also seen in Google Assistant, and now it looks like the YouTube mobile app also has a similar feature. Actually, Google made a Shazam type Hum-To-Search feature on its YouTube mobile app. If you
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Messages is pushing out an update that introduces a new camera UI. The new viewfinder loses many of the camera options present in the system camera app. Users can now directly switch between photo and video mode. Taking photos or videos within the Google Messages app is going
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is expanding its $20 monthly Copilot Pro subscription to more markets today, after launching the AI-powered assistant for consumers in January. The expansion sees Copilot Pro available in 222 countries in total, and Microsoft is launching a free one-month trial to entice consumers to subscribe to its AI vision of the future.
Read MoreRecently [nibbler]’s Evakool 55L vehicle fridge started to act strangely, reporting crazy temperature errors and had no chance of regulating. The determination was that the NTC thermistor was toast, and rather than trying to extricate and replace this part, it was a lot easier to add a new one at a suitable location Bog-standard fridge
Read MoreThe challenge involves pinching one’s cheeks long and hard enough to leave a lasting bruise on the cheekbone. Read more: TikTok fined €10m in Italy over ‘French scar’ challenge videos
Read MoreA Sonos sale doesn’t come around every day or even every month, so we’re immediately alive to it when it happens. A few of the top Sonos models just got a substantial discount on Amazon, including a 20% price drop on the Sonos Beam Gen 2. The coveted soundbar is down to $399.20 in both
Read MoreThe SEC claims that Musk “has done everything he can to delay the completion of this matter.” | Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images The officials assessing whether Elon Musk violated federal securities law during his acquisition of Twitter are growing tired of his alleged attempts to stall their investigation. In a new
Read MoreRegarding hardware, Apple definitely offers the best hardware on the phone. Although hardware problems on iPhones are rare, they can happen. What’s problematic is that the cost of hardware repair is often pretty expensive and as an iPhone user, you may never want to have one repaired. We are discussing hardware problems because many users
Read MoreAmazon is telling workers to close their eyes and dream of being somewhere else while they’re standing in a warehouse. From a report: A worker in one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, who we’ve granted anonymity, sent 404 Media a photo they took of a screen imploring them to try “savoring” the idea of something that
Read MoreImage: Wooting Wooting’s 60HE is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, gaming keyboard on the market. That’s all thanks to Rapid Trigger, a feature that speeds up how quickly you can activate a key to respond in games like Valorant or Counter-Strike 2. Now, Wooting is launching the 80HE, a
Read MoreIn his State of the Union address last week, President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass a bipartisan immigration bill “with the toughest set of border security reforms we’ve ever seen.” The bill would have, among other things, funded “100 more high-tech drug detection machines to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop vehicles
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The standard mode of Safe browsing on Chrome for desktop and iOS will now check sites against Google’s server-side list of known bad sites in real-time. This functionality will come to Android later this month. Password Checkup on iOS now flags weak and reused passwords, in addition to flagging
Read MoreIf you think the pinch gesture on the new Apple Watch models is impressive, Apple may have more and larger gestures in store in future versions of watchOS for you. By sliding your hand side to side you can control the Apple Watch with this new technology. The patent application details several new ways to
Read MoreFollowing Epic Games’s requesting that Apple should be held in contempt of court over what it alleges is failure to comply with an anti-steering ruling, Apple has issued a rare direct response. Playing ‘Fortnite’ on an iPhone The long-running legal battle between Epic Games and Apple appeared to end in January 2024, with Apple winning
Read MoreDamage to at least three subsea cables off the west coast of Africa is disrupting internet services across the continent. From a report: The West Africa Cable System, MainOne and ACE sea cables — arteries for telecommunications data — were all affected on Thursday, triggering outages and connectivity issues for mobile operators and internet service
Read MoreA 5-day Amazon Spring Sale is on the horizon starting March 20, but there are aggressive discounts in effect now on Apple products and accessories. We’ve rounded up the best deals on Macs, iPads, AirPods, AirTags and more. Grab Apple deals ahead of the Amazon Big Spring Sale. Starting March 20, Amazon shoppers can snag
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