Apple: What’s New in iOS 18.2?
Apple’s AI features come to full fruition. Plus, iOS 18.2 restores aspects of the older interface in the Photos app. Continue reading Apple: What’s New in iOS 18.2?
Category Archives: smartphones
Detecting Pegasus Infections
This tool seems to do a pretty good job.
The company’s Mobile Threat Hunting feature uses a combination of malware signature-based detection, heuristics, and machine learning to look for anomalies in iOS and Android device activity or telltale signs of spyware infection. For paying iVerify customers, the tool regularly checks devices for potential compromise. But the company also offers a free version of the feature for anyone who downloads the iVerify Basics app for $1. These users can walk through steps to generate and send a special diagnostic utility file to iVerify and receive analysis within hours. Free users can use the tool once a month. iVerify’s infrastructure is built to be privacy-preserving, but to run the Mobile Threat Hunting feature, users must enter an email address so the company has a way to contact them if a scan turns up spyware—as it did in the seven recent Pegasus discoveries…
$35 lens turns any smartphone into a powerful microscope
Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpensive, portable and accessible to anyone with a camera on their phone. What’s … Continue reading $35 lens turns any smartphone into a powerful microscope
Google patches actively exploited Android vulnerability (CVE-2024-43093)
Google has delivered fixes for two vulnerabilities endangering Android users that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”: CVE-2024-43047, a flaw affecting Qualcomm chipsets, and CVE-2024-43093, a vulnerability in the Google Play fram… Continue reading Google patches actively exploited Android vulnerability (CVE-2024-43093)
Tiny E Ink phone promises 6-day battery life and way less screen time
As someone who constantly battles with their overly distracting phone, I’m glad to see more minimalist handsets on the scene that are designed to be used as little as possible – like the upcoming Mudita Kompakt.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technolo… Continue reading Tiny E Ink phone promises 6-day battery life and way less screen time
Android 15 unveils new security features to protect sensitive data
Android 15 brings enhanced security features to protect your sensitive health, financial, and personal data from theft and fraud. It also introduces productivity improvements for large-screen devices and updates to apps like the camera, messaging, and … Continue reading Android 15 unveils new security features to protect sensitive data
Snappy device makes smartphones more like real cameras
Your smartphone may shoot great photos and videos, but it’s still much more awkward to use than an actual camera. The Snappy is one of the latest gadgets to address that problem, as it brings camera-like functionality (including a shot-stabilizing gimb… Continue reading Snappy device makes smartphones more like real cameras
Snappy device makes smartphones more like real cameras
Your smartphone may shoot great photos and videos, but it’s still much more awkward to use than an actual camera. The Snappy is one of the latest gadgets to address that problem, as it brings camera-like functionality (including a shot-stabilizing gimb… Continue reading Snappy device makes smartphones more like real cameras
Xiaomi’s self-improving factory: 10M+ phones a year, untouched by humans
The 80,000-square-meter (860,000-sq-ft) facility, located in the Changping district on the northeast outskirts of Beijing, follows a pilot smart factory in Yizhuang, which produced about a million units a year of the company’s Mix Fold smartphone.Conti… Continue reading Xiaomi’s self-improving factory: 10M+ phones a year, untouched by humans
MFT camera system brings AI-driven photography to smartphones
London startup Photogram has announced the start of shipping to pre-order buyers of the Alice Camera – a Micro Four Thirds camera system with AI-driven computational photography that mounts to a smartphone running a companion app, for the best of both … Continue reading MFT camera system brings AI-driven photography to smartphones