Amazon’s announcement on Wednesday that it is abandoning its Chime collaboration app, while stressing that it will double down on the far more successful Chime software development kit (SDK), was an example of Amazon being Amazon. It knows what it does well, and where to focus. Analysts said that the Chime app made some sense…
As of 10 a.m. (ET) today, Apple is no longer offering new users in the UK the chance to enable Advanced Data Protection. Essentially, anyone who now wants to enable the feature to protect their data against criminal or state surveillance or exfiltration will no longer be able to do so. The move appears to be…
Tech press-landi and the tech blogosphere were abuzz last week with news that both Apple, the company that makes the iPhone, and Meta, the company that makes everybody on Facebook confront a daily flood of horrible AI-generated slop, are making full-size, humanoid robots. The trouble is, they’re not doing that. Here’s what’s really happening. Don’t…
Emerging technologies such as connected transport, quantum sensing, healthcare diagnostics, and synthetic AI-driven content are creating huge gaps in data protection and privacy that could quickly outpace the ability of regulators and enterprises to contain them. It’s a possibility that emerges from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO’s) latest Tech Horizons report 2025, which examines…
There’s a lot to like about Apple’s newest $599 iPhone 16e, but one of the more interesting features in the device is the Apple-designed 5G modem. Apple has spent at least seven years developing the chip, but gave it just a few short seconds of time when it announced the smartphone this week. (That’s not a…
Applications that support the specialized AI chips on Co-Pilot+ PCs have been rare, but Microsoft is looking to change that. The company this week introduced an upgraded AI Hub that adds new programs to the Microsoft Store that will run on neural processing units (NPUs), the specialized processors in laptops designed to run AI-intensive programs….
Apple’s new iPhone 16e combines three innovations in one $599 package: an A18 chip, Apple’s fast smartphone processor; Apple Intelligence, the company’s private-by-design take on artificial intelligence; and the C1, Apple’s first-ever 5G radio. The announcement confirms all of the speculation made about the device. In terms of performance-per-watt, Apple’s iPhones — and the iPads and…
Sending messages via satellite on iPhones should soon be as easy to as using your mobile network signal, as Apple and satellite partner Globalstar put a new satellite constellation into space. In an FCC request for authorization, Globalstar shared fresh information on how its new Apple-sponsored C-3 satellite network should provide much more robust connectivity and will be…
On Windows, OneDrive is built right into the operating system. Even if you don’t turn it on, it will pop up occasionally, asking you to “back up your files to the cloud.” What that really means, of course, is that Microsoft wants you to move your folders to OneDrive. I’m not here to knock OneDrive….
Google’s Pixel phones are practically overflowing with useful stuff. And some of the best options of all are things you’ve probably never even noticed. That’s true for the Pixel’s core Android software as well as its Google-made apps — everything from the excellent calling-related features in the Pixel Phone app to the splendidly useful reminder system…