It’s been a hot summer for global AI regulation. In a surprise move, California lawmakers voted for laws governing the largest frontier AI models. And, on August 1, after close to six years of deliberation and negotiation, the EU AI Act came into force. The UK’s position on AI regulation however is less clear. Going…
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Chinese smartphone vendor Huawei challenged Apple this year in an unexpected way. Huawei unveiled the world’s first commercially available tri-fold phone, the Mate XT, on the same day Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 series. The events took place just hours apart.The iPhone 16 went on sale on Friday around the world, with the most expensive…
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iOS 18 has just been released by Apple with over 250+ features. Still, the company has also released iOS 17.7 for those who don’t want to upgrade just yet. With this software update, Apple says it’s only bringing bug fixes and security improvements. Interestingly, all iPhone users running iOS 17 can run iOS 18. However,…
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has secured a four-month extension to complete its investigation into inner workings of the UK public cloud infrastructure services market because it needs more time to investigate Microsoft’s licensing practices. The investigation, which began in October 2023, was due to conclude on 4 April 2025. However, in a statement…
Ahead of the official iPhone 16 release, a lucky customer shared the unboxing of the iPhone 16 Pro on Chinese social media Weibo (via Majin Bu). While Apple should let reviewers publish their thoughts on the new models in the next few days, we already have a few tidbits about this upcoming phone, including its…
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The iOS 18 update is now available to hundreds of millions of iPhones around the world. One of the new features that iOS 18 enables is RCS messaging in the Messages app. The feature has been in testing since mid-June when Apple rolled it out via one of the iOS 18 beta releases.However, just because…
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Despite decades of digitisation of public services, governments have not been sharing the benefits of digitisation with the public. In 2020, the NHS ran a bus-stop poster campaign in England warning benefit claimants of a £100 fine for fraudulently claiming free dental care. It promoted an online questionnaire for people to manually verify if the…
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It has long been held that a surefire way for anybody to protect themselves – and their employer – from falling victim to a cyber attack was not to download any unexpected email attachments, but according to email security specialist Mimecast, cyber criminals seem to be moving away from this tactic. In the first six…
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Apple announced that its iPhone 16 launch event will take place on Monday, September 9th, which is an unusual day of the week for iPhone launches. Could Apple also change the preorder and release dates from the usual Fridays following the launch event?It seems unlikely, considering Apple’s rather strict rules about launching new iPhones. But…
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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…
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