Month: September 2022
It’s time to bring contrast back to our smartphone photos
A little while back, my colleague Mitchell Clark and I challenged each other to use our old iPhones for the weekend — mine was an original iPhone SE, and they had an iPhone 5S. I bailed a few hours in after my wireless connection flaked out, and I watched the…
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A new tool for your laptop could help fend off eavesdroppers
Audio player loading… Researchers at the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University in the Republic of Korea have invented a device that can detect whether malware is accessing a laptop microphone without permission. The prototype device, codenamed TickTock, described in a paper (opens in new tab) entitled ‘TickTock: Detecting…
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iOS 16 users were unable to download apps as Store error hit global launch
Audio player loading… iOS 16 is currently rolling out across the world but was hit with a major problem early on that prevented some users from downloading apps from the Apple App Store. Users were unable to accept the Terms and Conditions agreements from the digital store, according to some…
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One of the biggest new iOS 16 features might not actually be all that helpful
Audio player loading… With Apple set to launch its new iOS 16 operating system imminently, some security experts have warned that the software’s headline privacy feature might not be all that it’s cracked up to be. The company announced that Lockdown Mode would be available as part of iOS 16,…
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There’s a plan for Google’s failed balloon-based internet, and it involves lasers
Alphabet’s Loon project, which aimed to provide internet via a series of balloons, was shut down last year — but the tech associated with it has been spun off into a startup that ditches the floating platforms and aims to use lasers and the cloud to provide internet to remote…
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How to capture text from a video on your Android phone
One of the cool new features in iOS 16, the latest version of Apple’s OS, is called Live Text, which allows you to quickly capture and use text from both a still photo and, now, a video as well. While Android doesn’t (yet) capture text directly from video, it does…
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