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Apple's Safety Check Is Built to Prevent 'Terrifying' Consequences
Among the long-requested and popular new features Apple plans to bring to the iPhone this fall, like undo send for iMessage texts and emails as well as a function to find and remove duplicate photos, is one that could mean life or death when it's used. On Monday, Apple announced Safety Check, a new feature within the settings of an iPhone or iPad, designed to aid domestic violence victims. The se ... Read more
2022-06-10 07:27:50
iOS 16: All the iPhone Features We Didn't Get at WWDC 2022
Commentary: Many of these features have been on Android for years. Apple's iOS 16, which debuted Monday at WWDC 2022 as a developer beta, brings a lot of changes to the iPhone. But despite numerous upcoming features, there are several things that we see on other Apple products and Android phones that don't appear to be coming to iOS. I don't mean to discount the good highlights, like the new cus ... Read more
2022-06-10 07:26:51
Microsoft to Begin Disclosing Pay for All Jobs
Microsoft will start publicly listing the pay ranges for all jobs advertised at the tech giant in the United States, the company said Thursday. "Today we're announcing another best practice with our commitment to publicly disclose salary ranges in all of our internal and external job postings across the US, beginning no later than January 2023," Microsoft said in a blog post. Several y ... Read more
2022-06-09 21:04:11
Chrome to Use AI to Predict if People Want Website Notifications
For some internet users, the answer to website notifications is always no. Google Chrome is doing something about websites that constantly ask users if they want to receive notifications by automatically disabling prompts based on a person's history. On the next release of its Chrome browser, Google will launch a machine learning model that will predict a user's browsing preferences, the compan ... Read more
2022-06-09 21:02:16
It's Time to Learn About Passkeys, the No-Password Login Tech Coming in iOS 16
Apple later this year will introduce support for a new logon technology that promises to be more secure than passwords, the jumble of letters, digits and special characters we routinely curse while trying to get to our bank accounts or email. Coming in iOS 16 and MacOS Ventura this fall, passkeys don't require a unique configuration for each app or service, the recommended practice with password ... Read more
2022-06-09 21:01:50
What WatchOS 9 May Reveal About the Next Apple Watch
Apple isn't expected to announce the Apple Watch Series 8 until the fall, but the company provided a glimpse of what's in store for its smartwatch lineup. During the WatchOS 9 preview at Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, one message rang clear: The Apple Watch's future is all about health and fitness. The update will bring more sports performance-tracking metrics (especially for ... Read more
2022-06-09 21:00:55
TikTok Wants to Remind You to Take Breaks From the App
TikTok users who spend too much time mindlessly scrolling through the app's short-form videos now have another way to limit their screen time. TikTok said in a blog post Thursday it's releasing a new tool that will enable you to schedule reminders to take a break from the app after a certain amount of time. TikTok currently has a tool that can prompt you to enter a passcode if you've spent 40, 60 ... Read more
2022-06-09 03:45:00
At least 1,400 rural phone boxes protected from closing
Ofcom has brought in new rules to protect rural phone boxes from closure. The UK telecoms regulator said it will stop British Telecom (BT) from closing down phone boxes in areas with poor mobile signals if they are needed by local communities. Ofcom estimates there are at least 1,400 phone boxes in areas without good mobile coverage. This is lower than its original estimate that 5,000 phone box ... Read more
2022-06-09 03:44:06
Best MagSafe and Magnetic iPhone Accessories for 2022
As MagSafe accessories proliferate for iPhones -- everything from stands to wallets to car mounts and wireless battery chargers -- here are our current top picks. Apple carried over its MagSafe charging system to the iPhone 13 series from the iPhone 12. The feature is likely to be integrated into all iPhones moving forward, including the iPhone 14. Since the system relies on simple magnets that a ... Read more
2022-06-09 03:31:01
M2 MacBook Air: We Got Our Hands on Apple's Newest Laptop
New colors, better performance, bigger screen, improved camera… with a price increase to match. Apple's new M2-powered MacBook Air adds a lot of new features, but it also brings back my least favorite: The laptop's starting price is over $999. For much of its life, the MacBook Air sat at a comfortable $999, but in 2018 a redesign bumped up the price by $200. By 2020, the starting price was back ... Read more
2022-06-09 03:30:35