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Not-so-secret Apple Car project halted — 2,000 employees affected as teams transfer to generative AI push

Have you been waiting patiently for the Apple Car? Well, the not-so-secret project has been canned, according to “people with knowledge of the matter.” According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, the project was canceled on Tuesday, surprising the 2,000 employees working on the electric vehicle. Many of those employees will be moved to Apple’s AI division as we await the company’s first move in the AI race.Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and an Apple vice president, Kevin Lynch, informed the employees of the project's…

Were you affected by the AT&T outage? You may get some free money

Jonathan Weiss / 123RF Last Thursday was a bad day for AT&T. Early in the morning on February 22, AT&T’s network went down for thousands of people across the U.S.. The network was offline for hours and outage reports on Down Detector peaked at nearly 75,000. It was eventually fixed, but the damage was still done. Thankfully, if you were among the many people impacted by the outage, we have some good news for you. On February 24, AT&T published a page on its website called “Making it right.” In short, if…

Kia Seltos Petrol CVT Faces Recall in India: Over 4,300 Units Affected by Faulty Oil Pump Controller

Kia India has issued a voluntary recall for 4,358 units of its popular Seltos SUV equipped with the petrol CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) gearbox. The reason for the recall lies in a potential issue with the electronic oil pump controller, which could impact the vehicle’s performance and drivability. Kia Seltos The affected Seltos units were manufactured between February 2023 and July 2023. Kia has identified a “potential error” in the electronic oil pump controller, a crucial component that…

iPhone stuck in SOS mode? Major carriers thrown into chaos as simultaneous outage bites — AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile amongst affected…

Do you have an iPhone that won't make calls and just shows the SOS logo (or No Service on older iPhones) at the top of the screen? You aren't alone, and it seems that there are plenty of people suffering from the same issue. The good news? It isn't your fault and your iPhone is working as intended.The bad news? There's a huge outage ongoing that is affecting some of the biggest carriers in the United States and there is no telling when it will be fixed. There's nothing for you to do but wait, which might not be the news…

‘Ghost touches’ are haunting some Apple Watch users – here’s what to do if you’re affected

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETHalloween is coming early to some Apple Watch users, as a strange "ghost touch" glitch is causing watches to make calls, swipe screens, and even prevent wearers from entering their password -- all without the screen being touched. In a recent memo to authorized Apple retail locations, the company explained that some customers using the Apple Watch Series 9 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 were experiencing false touches on their display. This issue, the memo noted, causes the screen to jump or…

I tested iOS 17.3.1: What’s inside, who needs it, and how it affected my iPhone

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Galaxy S24 phones are affected by washed-out display colors

Now that the Galaxy S24 series has reached early buyers, an unexpected display issue has come to the forefront. The new Samsung flagships have washed-out display colors. Switching between Natural and Vivid color modes hardly changes the color tone. All three models appear to be affected by this issue. The Galaxy S24 series has a display color issue Samsung phones usually come with two built-in display color modes: Natural and Vivid. The latter adds a pop effect for a more saturated color tone. The Galaxy S24, Galaxy…

After almost four years, Apple has finally started sending out payments for its $500 million iPhone throttling lawsuit to US consumers —…

If you happened to have purchased an iPhone before December 2017, there’s a chance you have been given a tidy little sum of money by Apple this week. To be more specific, a US class action lawsuit settlement went through back in 2020 in regard to the battery throttling of a handful of the company’s major iPhones. You had to have claimed for this suit before October 2020 to be entitled to a payout of $92.17. Any iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, and 6s Plus running iOS 10.2.1 or later and any iPhone 7 or 7 Plus running iOS 11.2 or…