A week after seeding the third beta of visionOS 2, Apple is now releasing the fourth testing version of this upcoming software for its spatial computer. While this update doesn’t bring many new features, it addresses several lacking functions users were waiting for in Apple Vision Pro.That said, this is what you should expect from visionOS…
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That’s even though seemingly straightforward proxy metrics such as energy consumption exist – and it’s not for want of trying. Precision down to the kilowatt-hour (kWh) or megajoule (MJ) is possible, converting thereafter to CO2 in metric tonnes (mt), but things rarely play out that way in reality, he says. And, even when they do,…
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David William Plummer, a former Microsoft software engineer who developed Windows Task Manager, has posted a video describing how the CrowdStrike update could have caused Windows to halt. He described CrowdStrike Falcon as anti-malware for Windows servers, which “proactively detects new attacks” and analyses application behaviour. To do this, CrowdStrike needs to run as a…
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Released in May, Beats Solo 4 is the latest headphones model by Beats. Mixing excellent sound quality with a classic design, the Apple-owned company recently partnered with Minecraft for a special edition of its most famous headphones brand. The Beats x Minecraft Solo 4 headphones edition is available exclusively from Target online in the US,…
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An AI company may have gone too far this time. Silicon Intelligence has now created an AI capable of “resurrecting” your dead loved ones. At least, that’s what the company claims. The truth is that the company can create an AI-powered avatar of your loved one, allowing you to chat with them like you would…
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Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…
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With the iPhone 16 release just around the corner, it seems the attention is now turning to the upcoming iPhone 17. Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard several rumors about camera upgrades, bigger sizes, and even a sketchy iPhone 17 Slim.In the same report where The Information detailed a foldable iPhone coming in 2026,…
President Biden is still running for re-election, President Trump hasn’t been shot, and Kamala Harris is not a contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.Those are some of the wacky misstatements that ChatGPT shared with me yesterday and today, prompted by my questions to it about the dizzying array of major news developments we’ve been…
It’s estimated that 75% of security vulnerabilities go undiscovered. Much of this has to do simply with ease of access – for a long time, mobile security has relied on biometric authentication, such as fingerprint scans and facial recognition. However, as cyber threats evolve, these methods are no longer sufficient to counter the sophisticated tactics…
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Google has dramatically changed course on its proposals to deprecate third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser in favour of a “new experience” that it claims will enable people to make an “informed choice” about their web privacy. The changes, which mirror those made already in the Firefox and Safari browsers, would have been due…
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