Apple’s changes to comply with the DMA opens new European antitrust investigation
Apple faces another EU competition investigation. This is the result of blocking so-called "progressive web applications" or PWAs in iOS 17.4. The change was made by Apple to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Apple is once again the subject of an EU competition investigation. More ... Read more
Visual Studio gets new out-of-process designer for .NET apps
An improved 32-bit out-of-process designer should support legacy 32-bit Windows Forms (WinForms) applications. With this modification, Microsoft is trying to solve a problem that arose in November 2021, when the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2022 was introduced.
WinForms is a framework f... Read more
Dutch LED company builds artificial sunlight into laptop
A Dutch LED company wants to offer office workers the benefits of sunlight. The solution is based on near-infrared light that can be placed in laptop screens or monitors.
During Mobile World Congress, Seaborough is showing a way to integrate health benefits in laptops. It involves LED lighting t... Read more
Smartphone with 28,000 mAh battery appears in October
The Energizer Hard Case P28K promises to last a week with regular use on a fully charged battery.
Maker Avenir Telecom is presenting the phone this week during MWC. The battery also means Avenir Telecom can share several statistics on how long the phone lasts on a charge. In addition to a week w... Read more
Fake news stays due to challenges in flagging AI content
The AI industry still appears to have great difficulty flagging artificially generated content. That's according to a study by Mozilla.
Images and text generated by AI are rarely referred to as AI content. This applies both to a label that users can read and to a watermark that is useful for ma... Read more
Patch Tuesday update does not complete installation on Windows 11
The monthly Patch Tuesday update for Windows is causing problems for end users with Windows 11 22H2 and -23H2 systems. This reports Microsoft in its Windows release health dashboard.
According to the tech giant, users with Windows 11 version 22H2 or 23H2 may experience problems when installing t... Read more
Google quickly brings back image generator Gemini after criticism
In the next few weeks, Google's AI tool that generates images of people will be available for use again. Google withdrew the feature just last week because of inaccuracies in the generated images.
The image generator appeared this month in the AI assistant Gemini. The tool allows users to issue ... Read more
Privacy interest groups file complaint with EU over LinkedIn
Digital civil rights organizations recently filed a complaint with the EC against LinkedIn. This business social media platform is allegedly using privacy-sensitive data to display advertisements.
According to the complaint to the EC by Bits of Freedom, EDRi, Global Witness and Gesellschaft für... Read more
Google: Microsoft offered to sell Bing to Apple
Microsoft offered Bing for sale to Apple in 2018, but Apple would not be interested because of the search engine's quality.
That's what Google claims in a legal battle. Google's claim was made public last weekend. The lawsuit against Alphabet relates to the possible monopoly around search engine... Read more
Qualcomm makes on-device AI more readily available to developers
Qualcomm is introducing a range of new AI-supported devices and solutions at MWC 2024 in Barcelona. With this, according to the chip manufacturer, the commercial exploitation of on-device AI has truly begun.
Qualcomm is bringing AI to mobile devices through chipsets, allowing end users to use th... Read more