“There are millions of iOS apps out there, and some of them would be great on the Mac,” Federighi said. With the announcement, the company also stressed that it would not be merging the iPhone and Mac operating systems into one platform, which has been a speculation for years. It is only taking some developer frameworks from iOS and bringing them over to the Mac to ensure easy porting of iOS apps to the Mac....
Due to its popularity, Apple’s mobile platform is used by many around the world, making developers prefer developing for iOS first before hopping onto other platforms. In spite of this, Google’s Android has always been an obstacle for the company for years and also the one to steal the company’s market share. Hence, to increase its hold in the market, Apple has come up with the Android Apple Music app that’s scheduled to arrive sometime this fall....
The new longer trial options are certainly beneficial at this time where office employees, as well as students, have been forced to work or study from home amidst the global coronavirus pandemic. Final Cut Pro X already has a 30-day free trial, which has now been extended to 90 days. Both new customers and those who have already downloaded the prior 30-day free trial of Final Cut Pro X are eligible to extend for the 90-day offer....
The company also reiterated that Apple will broaden its use of an enhanced security system known as “two-factor authentication,” which requires a user, or a hacker, to have two of three things to access an account: a password, a separate four-digit one-time code, or a long access key given to the user when they signed up for the service. When the feature is turned on, Apple requires users to complete two of those steps to sign into an iTunes account from a new device....
Elaborating further on this topic, the former Microsoft CEO while speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook conference on November 6 said that people would have been using Windows instead of Android if they were not caught in the U.S. antitrust investigation. “There’s no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system and so instead of using Android today you would be using Windows Mobile,” Gates said....
While Blue screen windows 10 WDF_VIOLATION stop code error is mostly seen in HP PC’s. Some other brand PC users are also reporting the same error after the Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1803 (KB4462919). The actual reason for this error is still not confirmed by any official source and it looks like the windows 10 blue screen crash is caused by the file located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\HpqKbFiltr.sys which most probably is HP keyboard driver....
Procon-SP, Sao Paulo’s consumer protection agency has accused the Cupertino giant of “misleading advertising, selling a device without the charger and unfair terms.” In October last year, Apple had announced that its new iPhone 12 series would not come with chargers or Lightning EarPods in their boxes and include only a single USB-C to Lightning cable. In December, when Procon-SP told Apple that selling iPhones without chargers in the box was a violation of the country’s Consumer Defense Code, the company responded by saying that it is not including the accessories in the iPhone 12 boxes to help reduce carbon emissions and address other environmental concerns....
This strange Spotify bug surfaced around five months ago when users reported that the desktop App was overwriting their own data on their PC/laptops. Users reported that Spotify was writing a humongous amount of junk data sometimes measuring in terabytes.Strangely, the bug affects even if you close Spotify or Spotify is idle and is playing/storing any songs locally. Also, the Spotify bug is not limited to Windows. Several subscribers reported that the streaming service’s apps for Mac, Windows and Linux computers have been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day to users’ hard drives wiping their own precious data....
The Twitter and Facebook accounts linked to Harrigan included comments threatening Trump on Sunday afternoon. “I’m going to kill the president. Elect,” was one of the posts on Harrigan’s Twitter account. It was followed by the comment, “Bring it secret service,” before delving into further detail about just how he planned to take out Trump. “…getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts,” reads a post to Harrigan’s Facebook account....
For many, the computer interface has always followed the same formula: Start Menu Panel System tray Desktop icons With those simple elements, people have happily interfaced with their hardware and done their jobs for a very long time. For those working within the world of Windows, the best take on that formula was (in many an opinion) Windows 7. So, it should come as no surprise that some Linux distributions have adopted that formula to create a desktop with which users would feel a sense of immediate connection....
According to a translation by Shanghaiist, a guard said that “The managers from the company have long drifted away, and I am unable to contact them.” The TEB was described as a revolution in public ground transportation when it was showcased as a prototype at the Beijing International High-Tech Expo in May. The vehicle was intended to carry passengers above road traffic, to help reduce congestion and vehicle emissions – a growing problem in China....
The vulnerability, CVE-2016-3714 was discovered by “Stewie” and security researcher Nikolay Ermishkin from the Russian internet services company Mail.Ru Group. Dubbed as ImageTragick, a website, that has been created for website admins and developers, which has comprehensive information about the multiple vulnerabilities. It also includes mitigation advice until a patch is rolled out by the company. ImageMagick is a free, popular open-source, image-processing library used to create, edit and convert images in a variety of formats that is supported by PHP, Ruby, Python and other languages....
Apparently, modern Intel processors from the past decade are affected by the flaw. The vulnerability allows commonly used programs to read the contents or layout of a computer’s protected kernel memory areas that are reserved to protect sensitive information like passwords, login keys, and files cached from disk. According to a blog post published, the core team of Linux kernel development has developed a critical kernel update but have not provided exact details of the flaw....
The Windows 10 hybrid is said to be the first 2-in-1 from Dell to sport an infinity edge display with very thin bezels (5.2 mm). This allowed the company to fit a 13.3-inch display in the frame of an 11-inch laptop and claims it’s the “smallest 13-inch 2-in-1 on the planet”. The XPS 13 2-in-1 convertible actually has four usable modes: laptop, tablet, stand and tent. The laptop will have a multi-finger touch display, which goes along well with the tablet mode....
PS4 owners often rue the fact that after Sony decided to switch to x86 processors with the PlayStation 4, they cant play PC games on the gaming console anymore. After fail0verflow made it possible to run Linux on PS4, the gaming console owners expected that they would soon be able to play PC games. OsirisX’s latest hack is a step in that direction. The YouTube video released by OsirisX shows him playing a PC game called ‘Bastion....
Clicking the menu button in the top-right corner of posts while using the desktop version of Facebook, only shows the following options: Save post, Edit post, Turn off notifications for this post and Show in tab. Delete option is nowhere to be seen. This unusual activity was first spotted by The Next Web’s Director Matt Navarra along with some users who flocked across different social media sites complaining about facing the same problem....
Applications and files are eating up your Android phone storage space? Transferring data from your phone to computer takes you too much time? Finding a specific file costs you 30 minutes or even one hour? If you are an Android device user, you must be familiar with these situations because they happen to all Android users and annoy them for a long time. Therefore, users are eager to get a kind of serviceable software to let them escape from all these troubles....
The new track “Don’t Doubt ur Vibe” posted on Musk’s SoundCloud account is his second single via his label Emo G Records. This track is also available on Spotify. Musk’s first single was ‘RIP Harambe‘ released in 2019 where he paid tribute to the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla in Ohio who was killed to save a three-year-old boy fallen into his enclosure. Before the song’s release, Musk teased his followers on Twitter by hyping his new song....
Stephen Hawking has said that nuclear warfare, climate changes and artificial intelligence will lead to man’s extinction. While Elon Musk might not be a genius when it comes to nuclear warfare or climate changes, the founder of Tesla Motors is quite adept when it comes to artificial intelligence. The tech billionaire says that while there are several companies that are working on artificial intelligence, there is only one that worries him the most, and that is probably because it has the most amount of resources at its disposal....
