Apple tells people if they are holding their iPhones wrong
Published in Mobiles


Preventing short-sightedness

Fruity cargo cult Apple has installed a tool on its iPhone which tells users if they are holding the screen too close to their face.

Google search data can be used in court cases
Published in News


Supremes rule

A US supreme court has ruled that a controversial technique known as a keyword search warrant is perfectly legal.

Apple’s sun setting in China
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:31

Apple’s sun setting in China


You can no longer get away with any old junk in China

Fruity cargo cult Apple is seeing sales in one of its key markets fall to a rival that should be years behind.

Meta's Quest 3 is hard to fix
Published in News
Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:25

Meta's Quest 3 is hard to fix


All the king's horses and all the king's men

iFixit’s recent teardown video Meta's Quest 3 headset has rated Zukerburg’s finest reality specs poorly due to their inability to be fixed.

Samsung is the world’s number-one smartphone maker
Published in Mobiles


20 per cent of the world market

Samsung emerged victorious in the global smartphone market, ranking number one in shipments and defeating Apple,

Lenovo builds enterprise gear using Android
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 16 October 2023 12:08

Lenovo builds enterprise gear using Android


Powered by the Esper Foundation

Lenovo is releasing a range of new enterprise-focused devices powered by Esper Foundation -- a custom Android operating system -- and bundled with a complementary mobile device management (MDM) platform.

Chinese quantum computers solve maths problem superfast
Published in News


Several billions of years earlier than a supercomputer

Scientists in China say their latest quantum computer has solved an ultra-complicated mathematical problem within a millionth of a second a few billion years faster than a supercomputer and do not require dead or alive cats.

Start-up wants to build “lego-like” chip factories
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Prefab and AI enabled

A start-up wants to build cheap and cheerful AI enabled chip plants that can be assembled and expanded modularly with prefab pieces, like high-tech Lego bricks.

Data centres could have a heart of glass
Published in Cloud
Monday, 16 October 2023 11:56

Data centres could have a heart of glass


It could be made cruising, yeah

Microsoft Research Cambridge is working out a way to reduce the size of data centres by storing data on glass.

Open-source projects are not properly maintained
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Just 11 per cent are viable

A recent analysis of 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four ecosystems found that only about 11 per cent of projects were actively maintained.