Apple now has over 860 million paid subscriptions across all of its services, including Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News, iCloud, and more, the company’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri said today. Speaking during Apple’s third-quarter earnings call, Maestri said Apple has over 860 million subscriptions, which is an increase of 160 million over just…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
To a large extent, supervised ML is for domains where automated machine learning does not perform well enough. Scientists add supervision to bring the performance up to an acceptable level. Read MoreRead More
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Wildfires are raging across the US The news: Five large wildfires ignited across the US yesterday, with further outbreaks expected over the next few days, experts have warned. The new fires in California,…
Google Search’s timer feature in 2013 when it was first introduced. | Image: Google Until recently, one of the most convenient ways to set a timer was to simply search for one on Google. Punch in a query like “10 minute timer” and, hey presto, you’d get a ten minute timer. But last month, reports…
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge The coronavirus pandemic is now in its third year, which means that many former commuters are now in their third year of working from home. Even folks who are back in the office a few days a week are often working from home more than they did before…
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge | Photography by Vjeran Pavic When we started working from home in March 2020, many of us who had not worked at home before may have begun with certain assumptions about what it would be like and what we would need. It’s now over two years later, and…
In its latest effort to boost users and specifically app usage, Twitter is testing out a new way to get people engaged: those who are new to the social network will be able to give the app a test drive without signing up for an account. The limited functionality will let those who download the…
Higher geopolitical tensions, an increase in remote working and learning, and the willingness of companies to pay up have all led to a significant increase in ransomware attacks. A report from Check Point Research (CPR) claims one in 40 organizations now suffers a ransomware attack every week, with government/military, education/research, and healthcare industries the most…
The Control Panel has been an integral – and iconic – part of Windows since the very first version of the operating system, which was launched in 1985, but its days are numbered, with Microsoft moving even more of its functionality to the newer Settings app in Windows 11. However, while an upcoming Windows 11…
Spyro has come to the dingy neon streets of Stray in a new mod that turns the feline adventure into a serpent’s sojourn. While Stray’s silent cat has leaped into Doom, a significantly scalier creature has come to replace it. The pithily named Spyro the Dragon mod swaps Stray’s furry hero with the classic purple…