Apple on Wednesday followed through on its plans to begin publicly releasing repair manuals for some of its products, in addition to selling parts and tools online. The goal, the company said, is to allow iPhone owners an alternative way to repair their devices. The tech giant’s new program, called Read more…
Meta’s campus in Burlingame, California will be home to its first physical retail space where you can check out Quest 2 and its accessories as well as the Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses and the Portal video-calling device. The store opens May 9 with interactive demos for “Beat Saber, GOLF+, Real VR Read more…
The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world. Early Saturday morning, after hours of negotiations, the bloc agreed on the broad terms of the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on Read more…
A new breed of startups wants to formalise cattle trading. Livestock fairs, where most animals are still bought and sold, can be expensive and chaotic. Farmers shell out entry fees to register their beasts. They must pay for labourers to load and unload the animals, as well as for transport Read more…
CNBC explores the dream of “a future where nobody has to constantly update and change online passwords to stay ahead of hackers and keep data secure.” Here’s the good news: Some of the biggest names in tech are already saying that the dream of a password-less internet is close to Read more…
Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk, a person with knowledge of knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports. The social media company is working to hammer out terms of a transaction and could reach an agreement as soon as Monday if Read more…
Writing for the New Yorker, Ronan Farrow reports on Pegasus, “a spyware technology designed by NSO Group, an Israeli firm, which can extract the contents of a phone, giving access to its texts and photographs, or activate its camera and microphone to provide real-time surveillance — exposing, say, confidential meetings.” Read more…