Month: June 2024

Why retailers need to collaborate against cybercrime

2023 saw a new record for UK retail, and not a good one. Over 16 million shoplifting incidents were recorded last year. This is more than double the year before, costing retailers £1.8bn—the first year losses have topped £1bn. So how can retailers stop shoplifting? There are lots of things…

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A new AI challenger — Grammarly emerges as surprising challenger to Copilot, ChatGPT & Gemini, exclusive TechRadar poll finds

AI continues to weave its way into our everyday lives, offering a diverse array of solutions designed to enhance productivity, creativity, and communication. To find out which tools have been most commonly used in the past month, we recently conducted a poll on the TechRadar WhatsApp channel.  We received over…

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Apple to empower privacy on iOS 18 by letting users choose who can have access to their contacts

iOS 18 is slated to launch later this year, and many people are looking forward to all of the app upgrades and redesigns. However, one of the areas we feel has been overshadowed by all the shiny new features is the series of security updates the system is set to…

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YouTube could soon make it impossible to use ad blockers on its videos – here’s how

YouTube’s crusade against ad blockers has seen the platform try out multiple strategies, from auto-skipping entire videos to crippling third-party apps. Now they’re trying something new, though.  The company is now experimenting with what could be its most insidious tactic yet – server-side ad injection. This news comes from the…

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Yahoo resurrects Artifact inside a new AI-powered News app

Artifact is dead, long live Yahoo’s version of Artifact. The architecture behind Artifact, the news aggregation app built by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, will live on inside the body of a brand-new Yahoo News app. Available to download today on iOS and Android, the new Yahoo News…

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Microsoft’s all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed

Microsoft is planning to launch its new Copilot Plus PCs next week without its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do on these new laptops. The software maker is holding back Recall so it can test it with the Windows Insider program, after originally promising to ship Recall as…

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