Apple’s iOS 17 is almost here, and it’s a lot more fully featured than Android 14. A casual glance at Apple’s iOS 17 press release compared with Google’s non-existent equivalent belies that, as did the spate of articles that questioned where Google’s Android 14 was at the big Google I/O event. It’s a stark contrast. … Read more
Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities with some PhonePe shareholders, illustrating just how aggressively it’s betting on India at a time when its chief global rival Amazon is scaling back on its expenditures in the South Asian market. The $3.5 billion spending took place … Read more
Apple couldn’t release both an iPhone 15 Pro Max and an iPhone 15 Ultra later this month, could it? That’s a new rumor doing the rounds as we approach the date of Apple’s next special event, though it’s a move that doesn’t seem too likely right now. It’s been predicted by tipster Majin Bu (via … Read more
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s good fun, … Read more
A decryption tool for a widespread ransomware variant is now available to download for free, thanks to a group of cybersecurity researchers from the Netherlands. Experts from EclecticIQ discovered a cryptographic error in the encryptor belonging to the Key Group ransomware operator which allowed them to build a decryptor, which they then released for free. … Read more
IFA technically kicks off today in Berlin, but it seems like Lenovo may have won the thing outright. I’ve given the company plenty of credit in the past for its willingness to try new things in this oft-staid world of consumer electronics, and it’s really come out of the gates swinging. Much of its IFA … Read more