Monthly Archives: November 2022

Apple iOS 16.1.2 improves a key iPhone 14 safety feature

Apple has launched a minor new software update with some security fixes and a boost for the newly-introduced Crash Detection feature for iPhone 14. The update, currently available to download via Settings > General > Software Update, promises “optimisations” for Crash Detection on iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro. Elsewhere, Apple says there’s some improved…

Apple’s latest iOS 16 update includes optimizations for car crash detection

The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max both have Apple’s Crash Detection feature. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has just released iOS 16.1.2, and the company is calling out two key updates in its patch notes: “improved compatibility with wireless carriers” and “Crash Detection optimizations on iPhone 14 and iPhone…

Modern trackball mouse wants to be a wireless solution to your ergonomic woes

Enlarge (credit: Kensington) Trackballs aren’t exactly a trendy PC accessory. Their heavy, clunky builds bring dated vibes to office setups. And despite 73 years of existence, trackballs have been usurped by modern mice and trackpads as the preferred forms of computing input. But despite their low mainstream popularity, trackball mice still hold a place in…

Homeopath who made thousands on bogus COVID pellets gets nearly 3 years in prison

Enlarge / Vials containing pills for homeopathic remedies are displayed at Ainsworths Pharmacy on August 26, 2005, in London. (credit: Getty | Peter Macdiarmid) California naturopath and homeopath Juli Mazi will spend 33 months in federal prison for falsifying federal COVID-19 vaccination cards and selling pellets she falsely claimed would offer lifetime protection from COVID….

60 years of moonshots, made possible by the Deep Space Network

There are three Deep Space Network complexes on Earth: Goldstone, California, Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, Australia. NASA At the heart of nearly all of NASA’’s complex space missions is an unseen quartermaster, a key system often referred to as the agency’s “eyes”: the Deep Space Network. The largest and most sensitive telecommunications system on the…