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Meta wants Apple and Google to force parents to approve apps on their child’s phone. A better solution would be for the tech giants to cooperate.
It’s not you: App privacy settings really can be complicated.
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Knowing you should set your apps’ privacy permissions might not be enough to protect you. A cybersecurity expert explains how complicated privacy settings can trip you up.
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When Apple finally unveiled its AI strategy at its developers’ conference, Elon Musk and privacy activists began raising alarm bells.
Photo storage app features can determine which photos users are more often exposed to from within their collection.
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In April 2022, iPhone users were upset to learn about a restrictive feature on iPhones. The blocking of photos taken at sensitive locations raised concerns about how technologies manage our memories.
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Scarlett Johansson said one of the five voices used for OpenAI’s new product sounded very like her.
After the dust settled, Apple accepted the ad didn’t land as it hoped.
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Crushing pianos, video games and emojis doesn’t seem to have delivered the slick messaging the brand was aiming for.
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From an economic development perspective, the highly skewed nature of AI activity in the US is likely to create large pools of high-skilled workers in some regions while leaving other regions behind.
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The Department of Justice will have to prove that Apple’s ‘closed’ platforms have hurt rather than helped its customers.
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In an era of transformation, manufacturing still matters.
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Smart rings can collect information about us that smartphones and smart watches struggle to.
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What are the benefits and drawbacks of putting smart technology into a ring?
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Medical devices have a legal definition, but the lines might become blurred in future.
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It’s a horror story unfolding in the west that could sweep across the country. Beware the shot-hole borer, an exotic pest that threatens our tree crops, plantations, urban forests and wild places.
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Preachy commercials do not go down well when big brands are suspected of disingenuous motives and virtue signalling.
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Apple’s plan for ‘spatial computing’ may redefine personal computing – and also facilitate trouble new kinds of surveillance.
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Governments around the world keep filing antitrust lawsuits against the ‘big four’ tech companies. Here’s why that matters for everyone who uses their products.
The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it triggered a revolution 40 years ago.
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Apple’s phenomenal success and the field of user experience design can be traced back to the launch of the Macintosh personal computer.
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Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Tesla and Nvidia have driven a bull market rally in US stocks in 2023. But will they dominate in 2024?
Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Los Angeles refinery, California’s largest producer of gasoline.
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California is the world’s fifth-largest economy. Laws tested there often spread across the U.S. and around the world.
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Plus 8 tips for maximising your battery’s lifespan.