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 »
Today, Patreon announced important changes coming to its iPhone app. To comply with Apple’s App Store rule, the company will have to switch to the iOS in-app purchase system starting this November to avoid being removed from the App Store, which is what led to Fortnite being removed from the App Store a few years…
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Your Instagram app is about to get another healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of generative AI. Meta wants to let anyone create AI avatars that have the ability to chat with users. If the concept sounds familiar, it’s because we’re looking at Meta’s version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs. Also,…
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Over the past few years, you might have noticed that an increasingly worrying number of social media users are actually bots imitating humans. They’re usually fairly easy to spot, but avoiding them altogether is virtually impossible. Well, a new social media app called Aspect takes all the guesswork out of the equation with a platform…
In this bizarre new social media app, every user other than you is AI Read More »
One of Norway’s largest financial services companies has divested from IBM over the role its biometric database technologies play in maintaining illegal Israeli settlements, in a move that could set a precedent for other European investors. Storebrand said the global tech giant was providing biometric databases to the Israeli government that were being “used to…
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Demand for high-performance processors for AI training is skyrocketing, and consequently so is the demand for the components that go into these processors. So much so that SK hynix this week is very publicly announcing that the company’s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has already sold out for the rest of 2024, and even most…
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If you’re considering buying a used high-end graphics card then you’ll need to be extra diligent as scammers are now selling stripped-out Nvidia RTX 4090s without their AD102 die. A new video by Northwestrepair via YouTube highlights the extent of the issue as some less-than-savory individuals have taken to secondary reseller outlets such as Facebook Marketplace…
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When I wrote about the 14 apps that I’ll always keep on my iPhone’s Home Screen, our editor Zach Epstein practically lost it that none of them were third-party apps. Yes, I am that person who rocks only built-in iPhone apps from Apple on the Home Screen.To give Zach some hope that the world isn’t…
Apple shocked the world late last year, announcing out of the blue (pun intended) that it’ll bring RCS support to the iPhone. Finally, finally, granting the wish of Google, carriers, and some diehard Android users who still haven’t figured out how to chat with their iPhone friends.The RCS rollout wouldn’t be immediate, as Apple said…
Why I think Apple’s iPhone will finally support RCS this fall Read More »
A major IT outage at Meta has affected services on its three core platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, for millions of users on an apparently global basis. Reports of outages made through the popular Downdetector service peaked at 15:35 GMT (10:35 EST) on Tuesday 5 March, with over half a million complaints made in regard…
