Apple today released iOS 16.1.1 and iPadOS 16.1.1, minor bug fix updates that that come two weeks after the launch of iOS 16.1, an update that added support for iCloud Shared Photo Library, Matter, Live Activities, and more. The iOS 16.1.1 and iPadOS 16.1.1 updates can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Sony adds several games in November for its higher-tier PlayStation Plus subscribers, including Kingdom Hearts and Skyrim.Read MoreRead More
It’s been almost a decade since the Chinese-American hydrologist Sherry Chen’s life was turned upside down by an unfounded accusation of spying, and this week, she finally received something like justice. Today, Chen’s lawyers announced that the scientist won a historic $1.8 million settlement from the US Commerce Department for her wrongful prosecution and subsequent…
You actually get two of these. | Image: Tumblr Tumblr has been enjoying a resurgence thanks to some recent policy changes and ongoing chaos at Twitter, and that’s drawn a few real-world celebrities like Ryan Reynolds and Lynda Carter to the platform. Unlike most big social networks, though, Tumblr doesn’t verify high-profile accounts’ authenticity. That’s…
“Mathematical Formulas and Relationships” fall under the “Abstract Idea” exception to the categories of patentable subject matter. Characterizing the “Mathematical Formulas and Relationships” as “Abstract Ideas” has led to misrepresentation of mathematical concepts in patent law. A “Mathematical Formula or Relationship” is a means of expression and should be inspected to extract what it expresses….
Enlarge / The fallout of an OpenSSL vulnerability, initially listed as “critical,” should be much less severe than that of the last critical OpenSSL bug, Heartbleed. An OpenSSL vulnerability once signaled as the first critical-level patch since the Internet-reshaping Heartbleed bug has just been patched. It ultimately arrived as a “high” security fix for a…
Enlarge / AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX, floating in a red-tinged room somewhere. (credit: AMD) AMD is gearing up to launch its next-generation Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs next month, and today the company shared more details about the cards’ pricing, performance levels, and the new RDNA 3 GPU architecture that will power all of its…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Some of Twitter’s top privacy and security executives resigned this week amid worries that Elon Musk’s rapid changes may cause violations of the company’s recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. “The privacy staffers said they were most concerned by the rapid rollout of new features without the…
Researchers hope the implant will one day be wireless. YouTube New improvements in a brain implant developed by researchers at the University of California Berkeley are providing a paralyzed man unable to speak the ability to communicate by translating just their brain signals into text. The research, , published this week in Nature Communications, demonstrates…
As Elon Musk struggles to make people give Twitter $8 a month for a blue check, Tumblr had an idea: what if they offered users $8 for not one, but two blue checks? Yes, you can legitimately buy two blue checks for your Tumblr blog. For the low, low price of $7.99. As Tumblr wrote in…