Apple today released the third beta of iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3 to developers, a week after releasing the second beta of the OS. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Month: December 2020
Apple Could be Forced to Include a Power Adapter with the iPhone 12 in Brazil
Apple drew flak for ditching wall charger and EarPods on new iPhones. The company claimed to do so for environmental reasons. However, the claim is superficial as one would need to buy a separate wall charger as new iPhones come with USB-C to Lightning connector. Now the Brazilian authorities have asked Apple on why new […]
Making the workplace safer with innovative covid-19-fighting solutions
As businesses of all sizes welcome a fearful and anxious workforce back to the office, they are simultaneously challenged with ensuring a safe work environment. The stark reality facing business owners still navigating the covid-19 pandemic is the diligence required to limit infectious spread. Corporations are taking note: plexiglass barriers, clearly marked walkways, and hand-sanitizing […]
Podcast: Facial recognition is quietly being used to control access to housing and social services
Facial recognition technology is being deployed in housing projects, homeless shelters, schools, even across entire cities—usually without much fanfare or discussion. To some, this represents a critical technology for helping vulnerable communities gain access to social services. For others, it’s a flagrant invasion of privacy and violation of human dignity. In this episode, we speak […]
Japan is about to bring back samples of an asteroid 180 million miles away
On December 5, Earth is getting a delivery of something literally out of this world: some small grains and dust snatched up from an asteroid 180 million miles away. Once safely back on Earth, the fragments of Ryugu will help scientists learn more about how the solar system formed. JAXA, Japan’s space agency, launched Hayabusa2 […]
Newly Discovered Zero-Click WiFi Exploit Lets Hackers Access iPhones Remotely
In the recent past, we have seen a slew of iOS vulnerabilities. The latest vulnerability lets hackers access your iPhone using a “zero-click” attack. The zero-click refers to an attack wherein the victim is not required to input anything. In other words, the attacker could gain access to an iPhone remotely. Continue reading → Powered […]
The election is over, but voter fraud conspiracies aren’t going away
President Trump’s conspiracy-theory-fueled plan to overturn his defeat in the 2020 elections targeted six states that President-elect Joe Biden narrowly won: Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia. All six of those states have now certified their vote counts—with recounts sometimes even increasing the victory margin for Biden. The confirmation of the results has correlated […]
The UK has granted emergency approval for Pfizer/BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine
The news: The UK’s regulator has approved Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine, making it the first country in the world to provide emergency authorization for a covid-19 vaccine. The UK had already signed an agreement to buy 40 million doses of the vaccine due to be delivered this year and in 2021, with the first batch set to […]
Cultured meat has been approved for consumers for the first time
The first lab-grown, or cultured, meat product has been given the green light to be sold for human consumption. In the landmark approval, regulators in Singapore granted Just, a San Francisco–based startup, the right to sell cultured chicken—in the form of chicken nuggets—to the public. Just had been working with the regulators for the past […]
Not Even William Barr Buys Trump’s Election Nonsense
The attorney general has long been one of the president’s chief apologists. Not this time. Powered by WPeMatico