In an official move, Apple has raised the selling price of a number of Mac and iPad models by a few percent, some of which are as much as twenty percent. This is largely due to the worldwide shortage of memory and storage chips, which is caused by the huge growth of artificial intelligence data...
Australia has taken radical action to safeguard young users’ online experiences. Following initial findings that have shown a large proportion of kids under 16 were still accessing social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced plans to “bullet proof” the country’s new social...
Meta is now officially partnering with eyewear giant, EssilorLuxottica, to launch a groundbreaking pair of smart glasses. The collaboration combines iconic fashion design with the latest advances in artificial intelligence, resulting in a wearable device seamlessly integrated into daily life. These...
The all-mighty password was the key to digital life for decades. One long string of characters – memorized, used over and over, forgotten, reset – separated you from all that was important online. That era is ending. It isn’t really a software update, but rather a decision by Microsoft to end...
Canvas cyberattack summary and student data fallout The Canvas cyberattack of last week caused a major disruption to finals week for thousands of students in North America, preventing them from taking exams, assignments, and coursework. The breach by ShinyHunters ransomware has revealed that...
China’s AI Video Model Just Went Viral — Here’s Why It Matters GetSeedance 2.0 was recently released by ByteDance, which caused the twitterverse to go crazy. The AI video model creates narrative films based on a handful of textual prompts and it does so with a degree of quality that...
One Year After DeepSeek’s Breakthrough At the beginning of 2025, at the time of the Chinese Spring Festival, the startup DeepSeek, based in Hangzhou, rushed to the world technological scene by launching a less expensive artificial intelligence model. The launch shook the belief in who was...
On Tuesday, an EU antitrust complaint of Google was filed by the European Publishers Council, alleging that the company has created AI-generated summaries called AI Overviews. The complaint is against the basic search engine product of Alphabet and how it uses publisher content to come up with...
Bitcoin Tumbles Through Key $70,000 Level Bitcoin dropped significantly this week and hit the crucial mark of under $70,000 and erased the gains that had been maintained since the 2024 election victory of Donald Trump. The largest cryptocurrency in the world fell up to 3.8% to $69,858, which is the...
Threads is an application developed by Meta and is in fact a rather direct competitor to X (formerly Twitter). It was launched in July 2023 as a text-based social networking app where people could post messages. In the past few years, Meta has incorporated many features for the usage of the app and...