The iMessage and FaceTime services available across Apple’s platforms appear to be experiencing problems at the current time, with some users unable to send messages and make FaceTime calls. There are a number of tweets about the issue on Twitter, and Apple’s System Status page is listing an ongoing outage. The feature is not down…
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Enlarge / The circuitry that’s increasingly inside every modern appliance adds another layer of complexity to fixing the things you own. (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission is considering new rules that would require any appliances touting a familiar yellow EnergyGuide label to also include “information on how consumers can repair their products.” Citing…
The UK’s privacy watchdog has warned against use of so-called “emotion analysis” technologies for anything more serious than kids’ party games, saying there’s a discrimination risk attached to applying “immature” biometric tech that makes pseudoscientific claims about being able to recognize people’s emotions using AI to interpret biometric data inputs. Such AI systems ‘function’, if…
The cloud-native market has seen the introduction of a range of open source DevOps tools — tools that combine software development and IT operations — built to address very specific use cases. As a result, DevOps teams today have too many narrow choices that don’t work together seamlessly or that can’t be integrated into a…
Valence Security, a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. The new capital brings the company’s total raised to $32 million,…
iOS 16.1 hasn’t been available for long, but already developers are taking advantage of its tentpole feature, Live Activities, by creating shortcut widgets on the redesigned Lock Screen on your iPhone – and I’m sold. For anyone unclear, Live Activities is a widget placed at the bottom of an iOS 16.1 Lock Screen on an…
iOS 16.1 has arrived, and it comes packing a variety of new features including Live Activitities, iCloud Shared Photo Library, and new collaboration tools. It’s not all about new features, though, and the update also brings a huge update to iOS 15’s excellent Live Text feature that arrived last year. The clever feature became incredibly…
Netflix, once infamous for its tendency to green-light almost anything, has canned a sizable comedy property before it had the chance to see the light of day. Titled Bad Crimes, the show is described by Variety as a “dark comedy procedural following Kara (Nicole Byer) and Jennie (Lauren Lapkus), two FBI agents who travel across…
A view of empty seats and spaces at Vnukovo International Airport after Western countries closed their airspace to Russia. The airport pictured is not Anapa Airport. Nuran Erkul Kaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Russia’s Air Transport Agency suspended flights from some airports after the invasion of Ukraine. One started selling a bundle of pre-flight procedures…
US President Joe Biden meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah in July. Bandar Algaloud/Reuters White House officials believed they’d struck a secret oil deal with Saudi Arabia, per NY Times. But Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman then backtracked on it, taking them by surprise. The Saudi decision to cut oil output before…