Month: March 2022
ESPN gets updated with support for Apple’s SharePlay feature
The ESPN app has been updated with support for Apple’s SharePlay feature, which lets you watch videos over FaceTime together with family and friends. The feature is particularly well suited for live sports, which the ESPN app (by virtue of offering built-in access to Disney’s ESPN Plus streaming service) offers…
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AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference. All the researchers had…
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The M1 iPad Air is just as powerful as the iPad Pro, but professionals won’t love it
Audio player loading… Apple’s new M1-powered iPad Air is a thin, powerful, and truly versatile tablet that will probably let professionals down. I know, it can be confusing. The 10.9-inch slab features the exact same Apple Silicon M1 chip as the 11-inch iPad Pro. They even run at the same…
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The officially fastest macOS browser might surprise you
Audio player loading… Google’s hard work to keep boosting the speed of its browser appears to have paid off, and in a rather suprising way. The company’s Google Chrome browser recently achieved the highest score yet on Apple’s Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. In order to measure the speed of its browser,…
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Some Microsoft Office updates are being flagged as ransomware threats
Audio player loading… Some recently-released Microsoft Office updates are causing the company’s Defender for Endpoint platform to raise the alarm about cyberattacks, it has warned. The security tool was found to be labelling the Office updates as potential ransomware behavior, and given how prevalent supply chain attacks are, it’s no…
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Samsung’s Neo QLED 8K TVs are available for pre-order, starting at $3,500
Samsung has opened up pre-orders for many of its 2022 TVs and revealed when you'll be able to lock in an order for some of its other upcoming displays. The company is refreshing its Neo QLED sets this year with features such as refresh rates of up to 144Hz, 14-bit…
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