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Photo: Gary Hershorn (Getty Images)Apple says it now requires a judge’s consent before it will hand over your push notification data to law enforcement or government officials, according to an update of Apple’s Legal Process Guidelines on Tuesday. Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter to the Department of Justice last week accusing foreign governments of spying on Americans through push notification data.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedSenator Wyden says Apple was “doing the right thing by matching…

Apple is adding a new iPhone feature called Stolen Device Protection, which limits what thieves can do with a stolen phone and passcode. It combines location, biometric scans and time delays, allowing victims to lock out the perpetrator and safeguard their data.Stolen Device Protection defends against iPhone thieves who monitor users entering their passcode before snatching the device. With the passcode, the perpetrator could reset the owner’s Apple ID password, turn off Find My tracking, change an Apple ID password and a…

Apple is adding a new iPhone feature called Stolen Device Protection that limits what thieves can do with a stolen phone and passcode. Created following a report earlier this year by the Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern, the opt-in feature is included in the iOS 17.3 beta, now available for developers. It works using a combination of location, biometric scans, and time delays, allowing victims to lock out the perpetrator and safeguard their data.Stolen Device Protection aims to snuff out a common practice among iPhone…

Credit: Sara Levine | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory North America's 2021 heat wave was Washington's deadliest weather-related disaster, claiming over 100 lives in the evergreen state and many others in neighboring regions. Scientists not only suggest that such heat waves will grow more intense and strike more often—in new work published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, they reveal the underlying mechanism behind…

Samsung is going through a tough time, as the semiconductor chip industry is going through its worst phase in the recent past. To improve its business, the South Korean firm is tightening the work discipline of its employees in the Device Solutions business arm. Samsung has also asked employees to report if their colleagues, superiors, or other team members are neglecting their duties. Samsung is reportedly asking employees to report colleagues who are neglecting work According to a report from Korea Times, Samsung has…

Elon Musk’s F-bomb-laden tirade at advertisers will make X Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino’s job harder as she tries to rebuild the company’s ad-sales business, industry executives said. “It’s a line in the sand that can’t be undrawn,” said Craig Atkinson, chief executive officer of Code3. “I have no idea what kind of salesmanship can counteract a sentiment like that.” Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Elon Musk’s F-bomb-laden tirade at advertisers will…

The fifth major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 just dropped. It’s a literal game-changing patch, as it adds a new (extremely difficult) Honour Mode and a Custom Mode that will allow players to customize the difficulty of their adventure. Larian Studios Honour Mode is essentially a hardcore version for Baldur’s Gate 3. It disables save scumming, removes some exploits, increases the difficulty in combat and conversation, and implements a new Legendary Action system to the game’s boss fights. Players technically only have…

In August 2022, Amazon and iRobot signed an agreement for Amazon to acquire iRobot for $1.7 billion. Usually, government agencies in certain regions investigate such acquisitions and mergers before giving the go-ahead to make sure that it doesn’t affect consumers and the market in a negative way. As such, a month after the two companies signed an agreement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) started an investigation into the deal. In July this year, the European Commission (EC) also opened an investigation into the…

Nearly a decade after launching what has to be the market's most recognized pickup drawer system, the innovators at Decked are back with a new-and-improved lineup split into midsize and full-size truck drawer systems. The Idaho crew has taken feedback from among its quarter-million customers, creating drawers that find the ultimate balance in organization, payload friendliness and go-anywhere off-grid ruggedness. Meet Decked, the Second Generation. Since launching in 2014, Decked has built itself into a top name in pickup…

Born in Georgia, Katie Melua, 39, came to the UK as a child and attended the Brit School in south London. Her first two albums were UK No 1s and she had hit singles with The Closest Thing to Crazy and Nine Million Bicycles. By the release of her third album, Pictures, in 2007, she was the biggest-selling UK-based female artist in the world. Her ninth studio album, Love & Money, was out in March, and this month she released a 20th anniversary edition of her debut, Call Off the Search. She lives in London with her…