If you’re still rocking an iPhone or iPad from 2012 or earlier, Apple’s got a software update for you. The company on Monday released iOS updates to address a GPS rollover issue that impacts some older devices. When the GPS software was created in the 1970s, computers had minimal processing power, so the date was …

Microsoft has invested $1 billion in OpenAI and reached a multiyear deal with the artificial intelligence research startup to jointly develop new supercomputing tech, the companies said Monday. OpenAI will run its services on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. San Francisco-based OpenAI, which launched in 2015, has repeatedly emphasized its focus on the ethical use of artificial intelligence that “benefits all of …

YouTube Music fans, you can now easily switch between songs and music videos. With a tap of a button and no pause, subscribers can flip between tracks and videos, according to a blog post YouTube on Thursday.  The new feature automatically sources a music track’s respective music video. The video-sharing site says it’s matched over 5 million tracks to videos.  If …

Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has sent letters asking Facebook, Google and Twitter how they plan to deal with deepfakes ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Schiff’s concerns follow the disinformation campaigns that spread across social media during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a statement released Monday.  Deepfakes are fake videos or audio recordings that make people …

Consumers aren’t flocking to buy mobile phones like they used to. This year it’s estimated that global shipments of mobile phones will decline by 68 million units, or 3.8%, compared to the preceding year, according to a report released Wednesday by Gartner. The research firm projects this as the worst decrease to date for smartphones.  The report attributes the lower demand …

Amazon can’t turn a blind eye to third-party product defects anymore, a US court has ruled. After a plaintiff alleged that a dog collar brought from an outside vendor on the site recoiled and caused permanent vision loss to a Pennsylvania woman, the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit deemed Amazon liable. The ruling, filed on July 3, …

A balloon that promises internet connectivity needs to prove it can stay in the sky. And that’s what P-496 just did. Created by Loon, a unit of Google parent Alphabet, P-496 spent 223 days in the stratosphere, nearly a month longer than Loon‘s former flight record of 198 days.  The balloon was launched in Puerto Rico in Nov. 18, 2018, …

In three days, T-Mobile customers will be able to purchase the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, the company announced Tuesday.   Similar to the Verizon and AT&T’s Galaxy S10 5G phones, T-Mobile’s variant will utilize mmWave technology, with the new 5G network available in parts of six major US cities: Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York. Customers who …

A low-cost, barebones computer that can fit in your palms left NASA open to a cyberattack, according to a recent audit report by the space agency. In April 2018, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered that a hacker was able to gain access to one of its “major mission systems” by targeting a unauthorized Raspberry Pi computer that was attached to the …

Apple will lead the way to smartwatch growth in the next four years, according to a recent quarterly forecast by market research firm International Data Corporation. The finding about Apple is consistent with IDC’s prediction earlier this March.  When asked why Apple will remain the industry leader in the smartwatch sector, the firm attributes it to the increasing demand for …