It’s that time of year when many longtime Apple product users like myself weigh their options. I will preorder one of the iPhone 16 models in a few days.I still haven’t decided which of the four new iPhones to get. But regardless of which one I’ll pick, it’ll be a great upgrade from my iPhone…
The iPhone 16 won’t even be my first preorder after the launch event Read More »
Spotify users are about to suffer from a major drawback in the iPhone app. The company announced that Spotify Connect, which lets you control your songs when playing them on a speaker, will lose a simple yet very important feature: the ability to control volume with the iPhone’s physical volume buttons.According to an update Spotify…
Spotify users are furious about a big change in the iPhone app Read More »
Apple is widely expected to replace the iPhone Plus variant next year with an ultra-thin iPhone 17. In the past few months, we’ve been calling it iPhone 17 Slim, iPhone 17 Ultra, and iPhone 17 Air as we adapted to what leakers said about it.Considering the most recent iPhone 17 leaks, “iPhone 17 Air” might…
Apple’s iPhone 17 Air might get ultra-thin competition from Samsung Read More »
Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block pattern. The solution is to write data in key-value format and cut out the block addressing middleman. That’s the view of Silicon Valley startup QiStor,…
QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration Read More »
Ahead of the iPhone 16 event, we might have gotten the best look yet at the new iPhone 16 Pro color. If this leak is accurate, the new fourth option looks so much better than we all expected.According to a 9to5Mac source, Apple will add a beautiful gold iPhone 16 Pro color alongside the Natural…
Apple’s new gold iPhone 16 Pro color looks so much better in this leak Read More »
When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, we soon wondered whether the AI chatbot could ultimately replace Google. Google certainly got scared about all the attention AI was getting at the time. Every Google announcement since then has been full of AI. That’s what Google’s products are all about, and it’s all for the sake of…
There’s finally an AI search engine that doesn’t suck, but most people will never use it Read More »
If you were surprised to find an odd-looking Facebook app icon on your iPhone this week, don’t worry—you haven’t been hacked. The black and blue icon you’ve likely seen on social media or on your own iPhone or iPad is not a new look that Facebook is rolling out. On Friday, the social media company…
Facebook’s new black and blue app icon is just a glitch Read More »
There has been an 8% year-on-year increase in the number of women studying for computer science degrees in the UK, according to research by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Looking at data from university admissions service UCAS, BCS found that of the 15,530 UK-based students accepted to study computer science this year, 2,940 were…
Number of women choosing computer science degrees up 8% Read More »
I rarely find myself in situations where I need to use a portable power charger for my iPhone, but I still carry one when traveling. I worry about my MacBook the most, and that’s where I use the power bank most of the time. Power outages are another scenario where a power bank might come…
Tests show these portable phone chargers are a waste of money Read More »
As the deployment of PCIe 5.0 picks up steam in both datacenter and consumer markets, PCI-SIG is not sitting idle, and is already working on getting the ecosystem ready for the updats to the PCIe specifications. At FMS 2024, some vendors were even talking about PCIe 7.0 with its 128 GT/s capabilities despite PCIe 6.0…
PCI-SIG Demonstrates PCIe 6.0 Interoperability at FMS 2024 Read More »
