Since the day the iPhone first went on sale, it’s come with Apple’s apps for checking the weather and monitoring stock prices. Now the company is finally getting around to offering an app that delivers timely information of a different sort with at least as much mass appeal: sports scores.
Named (probably inevitably) Apple Sports, the app is available in the App Store starting today. It features schedules of upcoming games, real-time play-by-play details on ones in progre
History might be made this week.
On Thursday, the space-exploration company Intuitive Machines is planning to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon. If it’s successful, this will be America’s first soft landing on the lunar surface since the end of the Apollo program. Here’s everything you need to know about landing:
What’s happening and how can I watch it?
The Nova-C lander, called Odysseus (“Odie” for short), is sched
Ask ChatGPT to answer a question and you’re likely not expecting it to reply “— and it is” over and over. Nor are you likely to have much patience if it starts apologizing for replying in gibberish, saying “the cogs en la tecla might get a bit whimsical.” Yet both instances have occurred in the last 24 hours, leaving users of the chatbot befuddled and asking what the hell is going on.
On X and Reddit, users are scratching their heads as the
Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street as weakness in technology companies continues to drag on the market. The S&P 500 was off 0.3% in the early going Wednesday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq gave up 0.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 153 points, or 0.4%. Palo Alto Networks was a big loser. The network security company lost a quarter of its value after giving forecasts for future billings that came in well below what analysts were looking for. Amazon rose following an announcement th
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Within the next few decades, perhaps sooner, quantum computers will revolutionize the computing landscape by being able to carry out tasks thousands or even millions of times faster than today’s most powerful supercomputers. When that happens, a quantum computer of the future will easily be able to crack today’s end-to-end encryption technologies, leaving our messages in secure messaging apps like Apple’s iMessage, WhatsApp, and Signal vulnerable to malevolent nation stat
You’ve probably already noticed your search engines are starting to evolve. Google and Bing have already added both AI-generated results and conversational chatbots to their respective search engines. The Browser Company, a startup that made a big early splash thanks to its mission statement of building a better internet browser, has launched an AI summary search. And OpenAI is reportedly building its own search engine to compete directly with Google. Even Reddit, one of the last oases
It’s been a brutal two years for employees in the tech sector, which has shed more than 450,000 jobs—including 38,000 layoffs at nearly 150 companies in the first six weeks of 2024 alone.
It’s no surprise that automation is the biggest driver of job cuts, and McKinsey estimates that AI could replace 12 million more workers by 2030. But if every crisis presents an opportunity, this may be the perfect time for newly displaced tec
The takedown of the world’s largest ransomware gang, the Russian-based LockBit, by the FBI, Europol, and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, today was a major moment in law enforcement’s fight against cybercrime.
By some estimates, LockBit, which until its takedown by authorities ran a ransomware-as-a-service offering, is responsible for around 25% of all ransomware out there on the internet. “It is a significant success for the law enforcement agencies,&#x
For over a decade, the home remedy for people who drop their iPhone in the sink, a puddle, or, ahem, the toilet has been the same: Dry it off and stick it in dry rice as quickly as you can. Now, Apple is finally weighing in on that fix—and warning people it could do more harm than good.
“Don’t put your iPhone in a bag of rice,” the company said in a recent support post. “Doing so could allow small particles of rice to damage your iPhone.”