TikTok ban unleashes new threats NurPhoto via Getty Images It was a long and noisy day. Countless articles captured TikTok’s self-selection to “go dark” late Saturday night before being restored by mid-afternoon Sunday. In the meantime, we have confirmed that VPNs cannot bypass the ban and that US accounts cannot be accessed from anywhere. TikTok…
iOS 19 is expected to bring a redesigned Camera app and a smarter, AI-powered Siri. (Image: MacRumors) Apple’s next big software update, iOS 19is still several months away, but rumors about its exciting new features are already surfacing online. Reports suggest that the update will introduce a redesigned Camera app, a smarter Siri with AI…
The coin did not exist a week ago, has no intrinsic value, and cannot be used for anything. It has no underlying physical assets and its theoretical value would disappear in the blink of an eye. Meme coins, a type of digital asset, are not new. There are more than 3,700 of them, according to…
Bill Gates recently admitted Microsoftthat’s 400 billion dollars failure of the mobile market. Android co-founder Rich miner reacted by attributing the loss of smartphone wars to Android largely to Gates’ own decisions.“I literally helped create Android to stop Microsoft from controlling the phone like they did the PC – stifling innovation. So it’s always funny…
While there are some cool features like eye tracking added to iOS/iPadOS 18, I have a feeling the new accessibility feature, “Motion Cues,” will be the one that gets the most use. If you go to the “Accessibility” section of the Settings app and then choose “Motion,” you can enable “Vehicle Motion Indices.” There are…
Melania Trump, wife of United States President-elect Donald Trump and future son of the First Lady, launched her own $MELANIA coin early on January 20 (late Sunday, US time). The move caused her husband’s coin, $TRUMP, to briefly fall by 50%, attracting traffic from fans and crypto enthusiasts of the next president. Melania Trump posted…
Are blockchains and AI agents a match made in heaven? A new protocol called Metropolis hopes to perfect this hybrid by using AI agents to easily and affordably create small, purpose-built interconnected blockchains called “chainlets” which, in turn, provide ideal environments so that AI agents can interact and create a wealth of new services. The…
While Google has already released two versions of Android 16 Developer Preview so far, Pixel users are waiting for the Android 16 Beta program to launch, especially since the first version of Android 16 Beta is supposed to be available this month . More Android 16 betas are expected to be released in February and…
Currency converter in iPhone calculator app. Credit: Letara Draghia Managing your budget while traveling abroad can be a headache, especially with foreign currencies and fluctuating exchange rates. But iPhone users can now use a currency converter built into the calculator app, a new feature in the iOS 18 update. The feature, which has gone viral…
Here are the takeaways from today’s Morning Brief, which you can register to receive every morning in your mailbox accompanied by: Covering the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland every year is something I consider a competitive sport. I’m actually starting to train for the intense summer week, as my few close friends know (and…