This is the current MagSafe charger, which is sold separately from the iPhone 12. Samuel Axon The MagSafe charger attached to an iPhone 12. Samuel Axon Bloomberg has published yet another report sharing details of a planned Apple product launch. This time, the publication’s sources say Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for […]
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Amazon faces legal challenge over Prime cancellation policy
Getty Images Amazon is being challenged by consumer watchdogs in Europe and the US over its use of manipulative “dark pattern” design to promote its Prime service. The Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) found that cancelling a subscription required scrolling through six pages and making several complex choices. It has filed a legal complaint with Norway’s […]
TikTok faces legal action from 12-year-old girl in England
Getty Images A 12-year-old girl is hoping to take legal action against video-sharing app TikTok, claiming the company uses children’s data unlawfully. A court has ruled the girl can remain anonymous if the case goes ahead. The action is being supported by Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England. She believes TikTok has broken UK […]
Snapchat boss: US faces ‘century of competition’
Getty Images Evan Spiegel, whose company includes the messaging app Snapchat, said America faced a “century of strategic competition” from fast-growing economies like China. “This is not something we have confronted before,” he said. Mr Spiegel, who was guest editing Radio 4’s Today Programme, said the US needed to think long-term to compete in the […]
DoorDash Faces Its Latest Challenge: Wooing Wall Street
SAN FRANCISCO — DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the United States, has its fans. Hungry people. Busy people. Lazy people. It also has its share of enemies: Regulators who have poked holes in the start-up’s pricing and employment practices. Drivers who sued over their tips. Restaurateurs who complained DoorDash delivered their food without […]
Apple faces new antitrust probes in Europe
“We need to ensure that Apple’s rules do not distort competition in markets where Apple is competing with other app developers, for example with its music streaming service Apple Music or with Apple Books,” Margrethe Vestager, the commission’s executive vice president for competition, said in a written statement. Every time an iPhone user subscribes to […]
As it prepares to fly humans, Elon Musk’s SpaceX faces the biggest challenge in its history
The company was never supposed to succeed. Even its founder gave it odds few gamblers would take — 1 in 10. But Elon Musk decided to go all in anyway, investing some $ 100 million of his own money, over the protests of his friends, family and the basic logic that said a private entrepreneur […]
As Life Moves Online, an Older Generation Faces a Digital Divide
For more than a week, Linda Quinn, 81, has isolated herself inside her Bellevue, Wash., home to keep away from the coronavirus. Her only companion has been her goldendoodle, Lucy. To blunt the solitude, Ms. Quinn’s daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons wanted to hold video chats with her through Zoom, a videoconferencing app. So they […]
Natasha Romanoff faces off against Taskmaster in final Black Widow trailer
Marvel’s Black Widow final trailer. Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) goes back to her roots to take down a ruthless mercenary recruiting other young women to be combat operatives in the final trailer for Black Widow, Marvel’s long-overdue standalone feature film delving into the mysterious past of the late titular Avenger. (Some spoilers for Captain America: Civil […]
British Airways faces $230 million fine for customer data theft
A passenger aircraft, operated by British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG), sits on the tarmac as travellers sit in a restaurant at London City Airport (LCY), in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. The chief Brexit concern of carriers is to maintain a single market for air travel which […]
Apple faces third Irish privacy probe, this time over GDPR compliance
(Reuters) — Apple’s main regulator in the European Union, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), has opened a third privacy investigation into the iPhone maker over the last few weeks, a spokesman for the DPC said on Tuesday. The probe is examining whether Apple has complied with the relevant provisions of the EU’s new General Data […]
NASA faces a key test of Orion spacecraft, as it scrambles to meet Trump moon mandate
Workers prepared Monday for the test of the Orion spacecraft’s emergency launch abort system. (Thom Baur/Reuters) July 1 at 11:19 PM Usually, the most dramatic part of human space travel is the liftoff: a controlled explosion of massive amounts of propellant, blasting a rocket off the ground on a pillow of fire and smoke. But […]
Facebook’s A.I. Whiz Now Faces the Task of Cleaning It Up. Sometimes That Brings Him to Tears.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, was tearing up. For half an hour, we had been sitting in a conference room at Facebook’s headquarters, surrounded by whiteboards covered in blue and red marker, discussing the technical difficulties of removing toxic content from the social network. Then we brought up an episode […]
Facebook Faces a Big Penalty, but Regulators Are Split Over How Big
WASHINGTON — Facebook’s announcement in late April that it had set aside $ 3 billion to $ 5 billion to settle claims that it mishandled users’ personal data suggested a strong consensus by federal regulators that the social media giant needed to be held accountable. But the reality behind the scenes at the Federal Trade […]
Luminar Accent A.I. can now recognize faces for more natural instant edits
Previous Next Skylum Skylum Skylum Skylum Luminar’s artificially intelligent photo editing tools just got a little smarter. On Thursday, April 25, Skylum Software launched Luminar 3.1.0, an update that focuses on enhancing the Accent A.I. filter as well as bringing a handful of other smaller tweaks. The existing Accent A.I. uses machine learning to automatically […]