iOS 17 Reminders App Can Automatically Sort Your Groceries Into Categories

When creating a list in the Reminders app in iOS 17, you can select a “Groceries” list option that will cause your iPhone to automatically organize every food item added into categories for easier shopping. Grocery items like produce, milk, and breads are automatically organized under different headers as you add them to your shopping […]

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You Can Turn Your Photos Into Animated Stickers With iOS 17

The Messages app on the iPhone and iPad has supported stickers for several years now, but Apple in iOS 17 is overhauling the sticker experience to make them more important. All emoji are now considered stickers and can be used in the Messages app like stickers, with emoji listed right alongside Memoji stickers and sticker […]

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iOS 17 Lets You Insert Contacts and Passwords into Any Text Field

Apple is making contact and password sharing a lot easier in iOS 17 by letting users insert them into any text field they encounter in the system. When long pressing in a text box, a new “Insert” option appears in the pop-up menu. Tapping it brings up another menu with two additional new options: “Contacts” […]

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iOS 17’s StandBy Mode Turns a Charging iPhone Into a Home Hub

Apple in iOS 17 is introducing StandBy mode, which is a new display experience designed for a charging iPhone that’s placed in a horizontal orientation. An ‌iPhone‌ in this position is able to display an array of full-screen widgets, turning it into a useful home hub. StandBy mode activates automatically on an ‌iPhone‌ running ‌iOS […]

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iOS 17 Lock Screen Interface to Turn iPhone Into Smart Home Display

An updated Lock Screen interface in iOS 17 will turn the iPhone into a “smart-home display,” according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. When not in use and positioned in a horizontal orientation, the ‌iPhone‌ will show information that includes calendar appointments, weather data, notifications, and more, allowing it to serve as a home data hub. With […]

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Samsung Wallet Digital Key for BMWs expands into the Southern Hemisphere

Samsung is on a roll with adding the Digital Key feature to the Wallet platform. Last week, the company introduced the Digital Key feature to Samsung Wallet in Brazil, and now, the company turned its attention to another country from the Southern Hemisphere: Australia. The Digital Key feature is now available for Galaxy device users […]

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Disney+ and Hulu to Be Combined Into One App

Disney plans to combine the Hulu and Disney+ streaming services into a single app by the end of this year, Disney CEO Bob Iger said yesterday during Disney’s Q2 earnings call (via TechCrunch). A single streaming app will include programming from both Hulu and Disney+, but Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ will also still be available […]

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How New Zealand’s Pesky Pigs Turned Into a Cash Cow

In the late 1990s, a London-based research team confirmed that, in a laboratory setting at least, PERVs could infect human cells. The discovery, for a time, “killed xenotransplantation,” said Björn Petersen, a xenotransplantation researcher with the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, the German government’s animal-disease research center. “Pharmaceutical companies withdrew their money from the research.” Around the […]

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Acer packed a Ryzen 7940H and RTX 4050 into the Swift X 16 laptop for creators

What you need to know Acer just announced the Swift X 16. The laptop runs on up to an AMD Ryzen 9 7490H processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 graphics. It features a 3.2K OLED display with a refresh rate of 120Hz. The Acer Swift X 16 goes on sale in July 2023 with a starting […]

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Adobe is integrating its generative AI program into Creative Cloud

Adobe Firefly is the creative software company’s generative AI program.  Firefly is currently in beta, but will be an image generator that offers plenty of customization options.  Today, Adobe announced that Firefly will be integrated into the company’s various video, audio, animation, and motion graphic design apps. When the best AI image generators were exploding […]

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HBO Max and Discovery+ merge into Max, launching in US on May 23

As announced last August, HBO Max and Discovery+ finally completed their merger into a unified streaming service called Max. The new service will now include all content from HBO Max and Discovery+ catalogs and will be available from May 23 in the US with three pricing tiers. Max is also expected to launch in Latin […]

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Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’

Rivron’s laboratory was the first to create these embryo-like structures in 2018. His team showed that mouse stem cells can self-organize into structures that resemble a blastocyst, which forms five or six days after sperm fertilizes an egg. They dubbed the balls of cells “blastoids.”  Then in 2021, several labs showed they could create human blastoids using stem cells. […]

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ChatGPT tricked into generating a working key for Windows 95

What you need to know A YouTuber managed to get ChatGPT to generate a set of keys for Windows 95, one of which worked. ChatGPT rejected a direct request to generate keys, but YouTuber “Enderman” outwitted the chatbot. The structure of Windows 95 keys has been known for years, so Enderman was able to get […]

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ChatGPT tricked into generating a working key for Windows 95

What you need to know A YouTuber managed to get ChatGPT to generate a set of keys for Windows 95, one of which worked. ChatGPT rejected a direct request to generate keys, but YouTuber “Enderman” outwitted the chatbot. The structure of Windows 95 keys has been known for years, so Enderman was able to get […]

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UK Probe Into Apple’s Mobile Browser Restrictions Shut Down After Apple Argues Regulators Waited Too Long to Open Investigation

The UK’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA) will not be looking into Apple’s policies on mobile browsers and cloud gaming services after Apple won an appeal that will force the UK regulators drop the investigation, reports Reuters. The CMA in November launched an investigation into the cloud gaming and mobile browser restrictions put in place […]

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You can now save and view Instagram posts into collaborative collections with your friends

Via an announcement on Twitter, the popular social media app Instagram revealed the rollout of a new feature. The new Instagram ‘Collaborative Collections’ feature is where you can save interesting posts with your friends. Moreover, both you and your friend will be able to view and contribute to this collaborative collection via group chat or […]

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vivo to merge iQOO into its main business in order to cut costs

It’s not uncommon nowadays to read about tech companies implementing cost-cutting measures these days and vivo is the latest company to go in that direction. The company just announced that it’s merging its sub-brand iQOO into its main business in order to reduce operating costs and boost efficiency. Which is mostly another way of saying […]

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The Vatican Army adds Samsung Knox Suite into its defense strategy

The Guardia Svizzera Pontificia (GSP), responsible for protecting the Pope and the Papal Palace in Vatican City, has discovered a trustworthy technological collaborator in Knox Suite–Samsung’s adaptable security platform for managing mobile devices–due to its various benefits. The platform has been developed to facilitate IT administrators in securing, deploying, and managing devices in a manner […]

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Microsoft Loop brings together all of Microsoft 365 into shared workspaces, and it’s available in preview

What you need to know Microsoft Loop is now available in preview. Loop brings together Microsoft 365 content into workspaces and pages that can be shared. Content within Loop can be shared across Microsoft 365 apps and stay in sync across those services. Microsoft Loop is now available in preview (opens in new tab). The […]

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