Month: January 2025

Apple is pausing notification summaries for news in the latest iOS 18.3 beta

Apple has temporarily stopped showing notification summaries for news and entertainment apps as part of the iOS 18.3 developer beta released Thursday, according to reports from MacRumors and 9to5Mac. The Apple Intelligence-powered feature was criticized after it inaccurately summarized content from outlets such as the BBC. Apple will reenable the…

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Will RedNote get banned in the US?

I’m not the first to note the irony of TikTok users flooding RedNote this week. The TikTok divest-or-ban rule was supposed to drive Americans away from a foreign-owned social network that was subject to influence or data harvesting by the Chinese government. Instead, it pushed them onto a different foreign-owned…

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MoviePass made a film trailer app for the Oculus Quest and Apple Vision Pro

If you’re a cinephile who misses the old Apple TV app for movie trailers, MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes knows your pain. So he decided to build a trailer app of his own, one that could easily help viewers keep track of upcoming films. But the MoviePass Screening Room isn’t heading…

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CFPB sued for trying to regulate digital payment apps more like banks

Two major tech trade groups are challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) effort to treat payment apps and digital wallets like banks. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, DC, NetChoice and TechNet claim that the CFPB’s digital payment regulation, announced on November 21st, 2024, is arbitrary…

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Forget about a $120 Raspberry Pi 5 barebone, I found a much better, even cheaper $110 mini PC that has 512GB SSD, a far more powerful CPU and an actual casing

The Dreamfyre Mini PC is OOS at Amazon. However fear not, I found this Teclast mini PC instead which comes with an N5095 CPU and costs even cheaper at $109.99. Hurry up, stocks are always limited on these deals. The original article continues below The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently introduced…

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Forget about a $120 Raspberry Pi 5 barebone, I found a much better $120 mini PC that has 512GB SSD, a far more powerful CPU and an actual casing

A more expensive Raspberry Pi may not please everyone, so I looked for an alternative x86 model The Pi is still great for tinkerers and for enthusiasts But I feel that RPi did “An Apple” – 50% more expensive for 2x RAM is quite unexpected The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently…

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