Apple today seeded the sixth beta of an upcoming iOS 11.2.5 update to developers, one week after seeding the fifth beta and a little over a week after releasing iOS 11.2.2, an update designed to mitigate a serious hardware-based vulnerability called "Spectre."
Registered developers can download the iOS 11.2.5 beta...
If you spend any meaningful amount of time in hotels, you’ll know that many of them are still living in the age of the 30-pin adapter, even though most of us have already moved on to Lightning, wireless charging and USB-C. So it’s essential to pack charging equipment to...
The updated Jeep Cherokee is trading in its squinty face for a more conventional look.
“We kept that design, but we’ve softened it,” said Mike Manley, who leads the Jeep brand for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. “I think our customers really will appreciate that. We had a lot of feedback that...
Researchers have uncovered four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads from the Google Chrome Web Store, a finding that highlights a key weakness in what's widely considered to be the Internet's most secure browser. Google has since removed the extensions.
Researchers from security firm ICEBRG stumbled on the...
he Google Arts & Culture app’s new feature seems to be everywhere as social media streams are flooded with photos of friends and the great works of art that resemble them — that is, nearly everywhere but Illinois.
The state is one of two in the country where the Google...
If Facebook’s announcement last Thursday that its News Feed algorithm was being altered to favor posts from friends and family over those from publishers and pages came as a surprise to anyone, it probably shouldn’t have.
A source at the social network even said, “We’ve been openly discussing the decline...
Readers with decent memories may remember early 2016, when Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said the company was looking into the virtual reality space at an investor's briefing. Coming months before we had concrete details on the company's upcoming Switch, the statement set off industry alarm bells about Nintendo's potential...
Apple reimagined the smartphone more than 10 years ago, and the iPhone became the new norm for smartphone makers. But very few managed to thrive after the first iPhone rolled out in 2007. Samsung came up with the best approach, and the recipe worked: Copy the iPhone as much...
What do you want to see in the next PS4 system update?
Just a few months after the big 5.0 PlayStation 4 system update, Sony is preparing to release its next major firmware patch. Furthermore, you could get the included improvements early, as Sony has announced it is holding a...
Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs triumphantly held up a manilla interoffice mail envelope to a round of applause at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. It was a silly gimmick, but it got the point across. A year after introducing the Macworld crowd to the iPhone, the...
