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Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inboxSign up to our free IndyTech newsletterApple has released a new security update for many of its products – but it is not clear what it fixes.The company released new software updates for the iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. The iOS and iPad versions are numbered 17.4.1.Apple said that the software update includes “important bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users”.But it gave no information about what bugs and security…

A month after releasing the first Developer Preview version of Android 15, Google has released the second Developer Preview version, bringing minor improvements. Here's what's new with this new version of Android: Android 15 Developer Preview 2 is now available for Pixel devices Android 15 Developer Preview 2 is now available for the Pixel 6 (and newer phones), Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet. As its name suggests, it is only meant for developers and tinkerers, and normal consumers are advised not to install the new update…

Chef and restaurateur Jose Andrés inviting actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Bryan Cranston and O'Shea Jackson Jr. over for dinner in a new TV special and Jake Gyllenhaal starring in an update of the pulpy cult classic “Road House” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: Shakira releases her first album in seven years, Paul Simon gets an expansive two-part documentary on…

There has long been a hole in my heart the exact shape of Lionhead Studios 2005 tycoon game, The Movies, and now Super Sly Fox is trying to fill that hole with Blockbuster Inc. And now they’ve announced that it will be released on June 6 for PC. That’s what they’re billing Blockbuster Inc. as: the spiritual successor to The Movies. This means that not only do you manage a film studio, there is also a large degree of customization, allowing you to essentially shoot your own movies. A new trailer showcases this with Barbie…

“Where is your Ramona now?” Grace Cummings sings on the dramatic title track from her upcoming album. “She’s little, she’s sweet, she’s nothing at all to me.” The LP will come out April 5. The music that surrounds her powerful, orotund voice builds and falls, with piano clanging behind her and the bass guitar taking long foot-slogging steps forward, pushing her. It’s emotional and grand, like a metamorphosis in real time, and by the end of it, she’s singing, “It’s just the time to be Ramona,” over and over. A…

Yesterday, Samsung released the March 2024 security patch for the international variant of the Galaxy A54 5G for Europe, which carries the model number SM-A546B. Now, the company has started rolling out the same security update for the international variant of the Galaxy A54 5G for Asia, which comes with the model number SM-A546E. The software update will change the firmware version of the phone to A546EXXS6BXC1. The March 2024 security patch that brings, fixes a total of 45 security issues, among which, 36 come from…

Her third studio album, Chaos Angel, is set to release May 31 Maya Hawke details her anxiety and its overwhelming nature in her latest single, “Dark.” Accompanied with a video upon its release, the song follows last month’s “Missing Out,” with both reflective tracks offering insight into her upcoming album, Chaos Angel, due May 31. The new track is billed as a “more intimate side” of the LP, “detailing times in Maya’s life where anxiety threatened to fully consume her.” The video begins…

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has introduced stricter guidelines for sex scenes and nudity in 12 and 12A productions, saying the public are concerned about the amount of explicit content to which young people are being exposed.In the BBFC’s first major audience research for five years, sexual violence remained the biggest area of concern.After surveying 12,000 people, the BBFC found that public opinion had shifted on sex, nudity, violence and drug use on screen, with respondents calling for a more…

Samsung has released a new software update to the Galaxy S21 FE. It brings the March 2024 security patch which fixes 45 security issues. For now, the company has made the update available for three variants of the smartphone, the international version with the Exynos chipset (SM-G990B), the international model with the Snapdragon SoC (SM-G990B2), and the carrier-locked variant for the US (SM-G990U). The update changes the firmware version of the SM-G990B to G990BXXS6FXC1, of the SM-G990B2 to G990B2XXS5FXC1, and of the…

Don Lemon’s interview with Elon Musk for The Don Lemon Show, which marked the beginning and end of his brief deal to start broadcasting on X (formerly Twitter), dropped Monday morning and is pretty much exactly what you’d expect: a lot of ducking, dodging, hypotheticals, gotchas, and reverse gotchas. During the hour-long interview, Lemon asked Musk about everything from his drug use and censorship to the Great Replacement Theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Lemon even managed to extract a…