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A bill proposed in Florida may bring DMA-like provisions to the United States, forcing Apple to allow alternative app stores, third-party payments, and side loading on iPhones. Alternative app stores could come to US iPh...

An Irish startup has created the world's first silicon-based quantum computer -- it can still integrate seamlessly with classical computing in data centers.

Diminished tech privacy appears to be another ripple effect from Trump 2.0. The Information reported on Wednesday that Meta has changed its tune on facial recognition. After considering but ultimately bailing on the tech...

It has cost Epic Games more than $100 million to challenge Apple's App Store rules in the ongoing Apple vs. ‌Epic Games‌ legal battle, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said today in an interview with Business Insider. Sweeney sa...

NSO Group, the Israeli spyware-maker behind Pegasus, must pay Meta $167.25 million for hacking 1,400 users across WhatsApp. A federal jury in California made the decision on Tuesday after the court found the NSO Group li...

With so many rumors lately revealing the schedule for Apple’s iPhone releases in the coming years, it seems the company already knows its flagship product … The post Apple doesn’t believe the iPhone will last anoth...

Europol has announced the takedown of distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire services that were used to launch thousands of cyber-attacks across the world. In connection with the operation, Polish authorities have...

Last week, Meta--the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp--unveiled a new "personal artificial intelligence (AI)."

New photos leaked from the FCC appear to confirm that an Xbox-branded handheld gaming console is coming soon. A listing shows two versions of ASUS's ROG Ally 2 handheld, a dark model with a dedicated Xbox labeled button ...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will return to the App Store in the United States later in the week, and he's reportedly spoken to Apple about it. Fortnite could return to the US App Store later this week. Fortn...

Minecraft is no longer (officially) available on virtual and mixed reality platforms. The change was confirmed in today's patch notes for the game's Bedrock edition following an announcement from developer Mojang in Octo...

Google today said that it's adding a new "Simplify" feature to the Google app for iOS, with the addition aimed at making search results easier to understand. Google says that Simplify is meant to help users understand "j...

Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly col...

Advanced Mac users may wish to manually increase the VRAM allocation on their Apple Silicon Mac for performance reasons when engaging in graphics intensive tasks like running LLMs locally, AI models, or any graphics heav...

The tech billionaire also suggested there may be untapped potential in AI girlfriends and therapists.

New research reveals that learning doesn't just alter brain activity -- it physically rewires the connections between key brain regions to make communication faster and more precise. Scientists used advanced imaging and ...

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One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2 ahead of its full reveal was the function of the new C button. Last month, … The post Read this before you use GameChat on the Nintendo Switch 2 appeared f...

The White House has nominated a former Air Force officer and advocate for the Space Force to be the deputy administrator of NASA. The post Retired Air Force officer nominated to be NASA deputy administrator appeared firs...

Microsoft's Bing or DuckDuckGo probably won't disrupt Google's dominance in search, said Apple senior vice president of services Eddy Cue - but AI services easily could. Cue was returning to a courtroom in Washington, DC...

iPad users can better access Google's Gemini AI with an optimized app designed for multitasking. And there are new widgets for iPhone, too. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

Though the program has obvious crime-fighting uses, it could also pose some legal and ethical challenges.