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The European Commission has stopped waiting for Apple to comply with the rules of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). As one of the DMA-designated gatekeepers, made up of the industry’s largest and most important companies, it has launched a procedure to ensure the company complies with its interoperability obligations. The Commission explains that under the DMA it has the right “to adopt decisions prescribing the measures that gatekeepers must implement to ensure effective compliance,” and has given Apple six months to comply with the measures if it wants to avoid being hit with huge fines.One of the areas the committee…
Between late June and early July, Iranian hackers sent unsolicited emails to members of the Biden campaign. According to a joint statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the emails contained excerpts of non-public materials stolen from former President Trump’s election campaign. The federal government stated that there was no evidence that the recipients responded to the senders. Additionally, the hackers sent stolen materials to news outlets such as The Washington Post and Politico.The Washington Post reported in August that the FBI was investigating Iranian hackers’ attempts to…
With the iPhone 16 Pro, the big announcement was the camera and Apple Intelligence. The problem is, Apple Intelligence isn’t here yet. You can test some features in the developer beta, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get them when the update is released in October. So our focus is on iOS 18 (more on the beta here) and the hardware changes.The big hardware change is the camera button. But it’s not just any button: Located on the right side of the device, it now has touch and pressure sensors for better control with swipes and half-presses. (This is in…
Gaming laptops are the true Transformers of the PC world: They’re powerful enough to play your favorite titles, ensuring you get the best gaming experience, but you can also harness their speed for media creation or extreme multitasking, like streaming high-resolution gameplay to Twitch. Today, you can even find a few that weigh less than the smallest MacBook Pro, making them solid options for daily drivers as well. For the demanding Apex Legends player, or the power user just looking for a capable GPU to handle video encoding, it’ll be easier than ever to find the best gaming laptop to…
Solid-state batteries have the potential to make EVs much more affordable and practical, but their commercial development has been riddled with false promises, even surpassing Tesla’s self-driving cars. This means that reporting on solid-state batteries is difficult, but there is some promising news coming from Imec, a well-established Belgium-based R&D giant.As part of the SOLiDIFY project, the EU-backed company and 13 partners have produced a solid-state battery prototype with an energy density of 1070 Wh/L, nearly 25 percent higher than the best lithium-ion batteries (800 Wh/L). Even better, the battery uses a manufacturing process that works at room temperature, is…
The Chromebook market has grown so much over the past few years that choosing the best Chromebook for you can be hard. The combination of years worth of software updates and manufacturers making laptops with more power, better build quality and long battery life means there are a ton of good Chrome OS machines that work well as everyday drivers. While Google did make things simpler last fall by introducing the Chromebook Plus initiative (more on that below), there are still multiple things to keep in mind when shopping for a new Chromebook. I’ve been testing and reviewing Chromebooks for…
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocket Pair in Tokyo. Pocket Pair is the Japanese video game developer behind Palworld, a well-known parody game of Pokémon featuring cute monsters with guns. Released as an early access version on January 18, the game became an instant hit, selling 15 million copies on Steam and reaching over 25 million players in just one month. A few days after the release of Palworld, The Pokémon Company announced that it would investigate the game, which will be released in January 2024, and “will take appropriate measures to address any…
With just a week to go until the release of a new update for Mortal Kombat I (MK1), which brings new character skins, new finishing moves, and (finally) a new fighter to the “combatant” selection screen, NetherRealm Studios has released a preview of Carnage “running” around a “corner” (okay, no unnecessary Ks).A new trailer released on Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon’s X-page shows off some of the new features MK1 players can expect in the Khaos Reigns pack and upcoming updates, due to be released on September 24th. The base game will cost $49.99 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S,…
X is reportedly back online for many users more than two weeks after its services were blocked in Brazil, but the change isn’t due to the Brazilian government shifting its stance towards the Elon Musk-owned platform. X appears to have started using Cloudflare’s DNS services, which for now is helping the social network get around the Brazilian government’s restrictions, but it’s unclear for how long that will last.X has been blocked in Brazil since the end of August, when Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered Brazilian internet service providers to block X after months of public feuding with Musk…
When a goat herder meets a princess, sparks fly (and maybe a few goats fly too). Kate Wheeler’s new graphic novel, “Goat Herder” (published by Oni Press), tells the polar opposite story. The story revolves around a goat herder and a princess who go on a journey together to break a curse. “Goat Magic is a thrilling fantasy adventure centered around becoming who you want to be, instead of who you’re expected to be,” Wheeler said. “The story will appeal to mischief-makers and risk-takers (i.e., those with strong Goat energy), as well as readers with a soft spot for queer…