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Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts hek in student's alphanumeric passcode A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.

Pixel's widening performance deficit spells trouble for a supposedly flagship product.

Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters "systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free"? It was Anthropic's experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon Labs (which also built the hardware and software integration). But for their latest experiment, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund "signed a three-year lease on a retail space in SF," reports Business Insider, "and gave ..

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Apples long-rumoured foldable iPhone is expected to finally make its debut this year with a wide form factor. However, the supposed iPhone Fold (or iPhone Ultra, as some leaks claim) wont be the only wide foldable to launch this year. Aside from Samsung, Huawei is reportedly looking to release its own take on the device, [] The post Huawei To Hop On The Wide Fold Bandwagon With Pura X Max appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7, unveiled last July, is expected to get a successor in a few months, so one would expect it to get a price cut to make it a more attractive option for potential buyers. However, if you live in the US and are planning to buy the Galaxy Z Fold7, you'll actually have to spend more, as this 2025 Galaxy foldable has received a price hike in the US. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 has three storage options in the US - 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB, which were launched at $2,000, $2,120, ..

175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system "Pix", developed by the country's central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed their own widely used digital systems for instant payments. Latin America has been able to build up sleek and effective payment systems in record time because it is not held back by legacy payment technology that isn't built for instant money ..

Sebut sahaja mengenai kereta elektrik (EV), isu berkenaan pengecasan masih tidak berkesudahan kerana bilangan kereta elektrik yang terjual setiap bulan mengatasi jumlah pengecas yang telah dipasang. Ini menyebabkan nisbah pengecas kepada kereta elektrik tidak berkadar langsung, menyebabkan pengecas awam menjadi rebutan ramai pengguna EV. Terbaharu Chargesini, salah satu syarikat penyedia pengecasan EV telah memperkenalkan pelan []

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation announced on Saturday that construction has officially started on a carbon capture, utilization and storage project at the Dongfang 1-1 gas field in south China's Hainan Province.

Arizona state prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation, charging the prediction market with 20 "wagering" misdemeanors. But Friday a federal judge "temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive market operators," reports the Associated Press, "and put the brakes on a criminal wagering case that the state has filed against Kalshi. "U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi's ruling means a Monday arraignment hearing for Kalshi has been called ..

SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 AI industry insiders want workers to code smarter, think harder and lean into their huma...

We've found a sneaky way to stream UFC 327 live streams for a fraction of the cost from anywhere in the world.

"Breathable oxygen has been created from Moon dust," reports the Telegraph, "in a world first that paves the way for a lunar base." Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin ""announced this week that it had developed a reactor that could successfully release oxygen from lunar soil by using an electric current." Almost half of Moon dust the thin layer of rock that blankets the lunar surface is oxygen, but it is bound to metals such as iron and titanium... Previous work to isolate oxygen has been lab-based, and ..

Introduction The Watch S4 may very well be Xiaomi's most popular watch yet. Our S4 review's popularity can attest to that. But while the full-sized S4 was focused on customizability, the Watch S4 41mm is locked in on being elegant. It's also quite feminine in both design and size. The 41mm model isn't strictly speaking a women's watch, but it is close enough. We found the watch too small for even the most slender of male wrists here at GSMArena HQ. Ours is the Sunset Gold model, and it's the ..

Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is making some changes, reports Engadget: It's no longer possible to buy Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games subscriptions or standalone games through Luna. Amazon will automatically cancel any active subscriptions bought through Luna at the end of customers' next billing cycle. If you have a Ubisoft+ subscription that you bought directly from Ubisoft instead, you'll still be able to access games on that service through Luna until June 10. The Bring Your Own Library ..

Apple approves TinyGPU driver, letting Mac Mini and Apple Silicon users connect external GPUs to accelerate demanding AI workloads.

"Only about 2% of visually impaired people in the United States use guide dogs," notes StudyFinds.com, "partly because breeding and training takes years and fewer than half the dogs in training actually graduate." But someday there could be another option: What if you could ask your guide dog where the nearest water fountain is and hear it answer back, complete with directions and an estimated walk time? Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton have built a robotic guide ..

Attendees at The Masters are beating the phone ban. Here's how.

Jura's new Automatic Milk Frother prepares silky hot and cold microfoam for espresso-based drinks, and can even make hot chocolate.

A 17,000-word expose in the New Yorker reveals "several executives connected to OpenAI have expressed ongoing reservations about Altman's leadership." Reporters Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spoke to "a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Altman conducts business," including current and former OpenAI employees and board members. Among other revelations, internal messages from a few years ago show that OpenAI executives and board members "had come to believe that Altman's omissions ..

Washington narrowed a key data center tax break, reflecting broader tensions as states reconsider incentives amid industry resistance and rising public concerns.

It's the first time a major U.S. newsroom has gone on strike partly to demand protections from AI-related layoffs, according to a report from Nieman Lab. They noted that one of the picketer's signs read "Thoughts not bots," : On Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the country, went on a 24-hour strike. About two dozen Guild members picketed ProPublica's headquarters in New York City's Hudson Square neighborhood during working ..

XChat: Can this X-affiliated chat app compete with WhatsApp and Signal? Elon Musk seems to think so.

The hacker group "Shiny Hunters" has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company's cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn't include any sensitive company or player information, according to a Rockstar spokesperson, but it's still being put up for ransom.

An experienced hacking group has claimed to have infiltrated Rockstar Games ' cloud servers, while the game publisher has confirmed that there was a "third- party data breach." ShinyHunters, a hacker group that's been linked to data breaches targeting Microsoft, Google, Ticketmaster and others, posted a message on its website with a final warning to Rockstar to "pay or leak." The hack was first spotted by Hackread and the Cybersec Guru . ShinyHunters didn't detail what Rockstar data it gained ..

Developers public API keys now function as live Gemini AI credentials, enabling attackers to run costly and unauthorized operations.

In 2024 the Verge's consumer tech reporter paid $173 for a WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD. But "now that same SSD costs $649..." "Like with RAM, demand from the AI industry is swallowing up supply from a limited number of manufacturers, leading to a drastic reduction in the inventory that's available to consumers" and skyrocketing prices: The price on my WD Black drive nearly quadrupled since November 2025, and consumer SSDs across the board are seeing similar increases, much like with RAM. The 4TB ..

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is ready to make its European debut, and it's starting with the Netherlands. According to Tesla Europe , the automaker's driver assistance system was approved in the Netherlands and will start rolling out shortly. RDW , the country's regulatory authority on vehicles, confirmed the news with a post on its website about Tesla receiving a type approval for its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system. According to the RDW, Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) ..

Critics say social media is engineered to be as addictive as tobacco or gambling, writes the Washington Post while adding that "the science has been moving in parallel with the court's recognition." A growing body of research links heavy social media use not only to declines in mental health but to measurable cognitive effects on attention, memory and focus that in some studies resemble accelerated aging. Science also suggests we have more control than we realize when it comes to reversing this ..

Microsofts Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would add irritating, productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April 11, 2001.

If you've been looking to score a high-capacity kit of RAM but the AI boom has destroyed any chance of that happening, Newegg might have just the deal for you. The 96GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM kit usually costs over $1,100, but you can get it for less than half if you act quickly.

Verbatim Japan and I-O Data have widened their joint commitment to keep recordable Blu-ray products on shelves in Japan, this time covering drive hardware as well as media.

IBM has agreed to settle the US Department of Justice's accusations that the company violated civil rights laws with its DEI practices . According to a press release from the DOJ, IBM will pay more than $17 million to resolve allegations of taking "race, color, national origin, or sex" into account when making employment decisions. This settlement is the latest development in a longstanding effort from the Trump administration to end DEI programs, which was kick-started from an executive order ..

UL has confirmed the REDMAGIC 11 Pro series smartphones are delisted from the 3DMark rankings as its findings discovered artificial performance boosting behavior.

Phoronix staged "a showdown" between Firefox and Chrome, testing them both on an Intel Panther Lake laptop running Ubuntu 26.04. JetStream 3.0 was announced at the end of March as the latest major web browser benchmark. This updated version of JetStream is focused on intensive portions of modern JavaScript and WebAssembly web applications... Google Chrome 147 came in at 1.47x the performance of Mozilla Firefox 149. A very strong showing for Google's web browser and to not much surprise Google ..

Tech DIYer Kent Walters has used a metalworking file to round over the corners of his MacBook. Apparently, some people freak out about this.

China launches satellite via sea-based commercial rocket

Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents FEATURE Salesforce CEO and chief SaaSquatch Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.

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