Many of the apps you find on the Apple App Store, and the Google Play Store has not been updated for a long time. This should be apparent from a study by analysis company Pixalate. That seems to be partly in response to an announcement by Apple that it […]
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The controversial facial recognition software Clearview AI may no longer be offered in the US. However, there remains a loophole for the most important customer: the US itself. Clearview AI is a facial recognition company that uses a database of billions of photos. Only those photos are not legally […]
Nearly $7 billion was lost to Internet scams last year, according to the FBI. However, the actual figure is much higher. The FBI states in its annual Internet Crime Report that $6.9 billion was lost to online scams last year. It involves extortion, identity theft, phishing, fraud and other […]
Apple is suing tech start-up Rivos. The start-up has hired engineers who have access to sensitive Apple company information. The Cupertino tech company has accused several former employees of theft of information related to chips, Reuters reported. Rivos is a so-called ‘stealth’ tech start-up which operates in relative silence. […]
Google has blocked 8 million ads related to the war in Ukraine this year. This was announced by Google on Wednesday at the same time as it released its annual figures on harmful ads. The American search engine blocked or removed more than 3.4 billion advertisements in 2021. However, […]
Apple is starting to offer repair parts, manuals and repair kits for modern iPhones and eventually Macs. Anyone handy can replace parts with the original parts. Apple’s Self Service Repair was announced late last year and is now available in the US and expanding to Europe this year. At […]
Amazon’s European web store division has paid no tax for 2021. Bloomberg reported this based on documents it could view. The European part of the American company had a turnover of 51.3 billion euros last year but had a deficit of 1.2 billion euros below the line. As a […]
E-commerce giant Amazon is appealing the union formation at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York. The company claims that the local office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has not adhered to the rules. Recently, workers at the warehouse in question voted to form a union in […]
After two strong years due to the pandemic, sales of laptops and desktops appear to be declining again. However, office devices do a lot better. Both Gartner and IDC are seeing a decline in global PC sales for the first three months of this year. Gartner speaks of 77.5 […]
The Windows Explorer that you can use to browse your own PC will receive an update in Windows 11. The new design also includes tabs. Microsoft shows the new look on its blog. There, the tech giant makes it clear that Explorer and Windows 365 are being pimped. The […]
