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  • Apple's new iOS 18.2 fixes one of the most annoying things about Photos

    Apple’s new iOS update 18.2 has been welcomed by iPhone users as it rolls back a widely disliked change in the Photos app.

  • Hunt saboteur used award-winning IT skills to hack huntsmen and leak their personal details

    A hunt saboteur who worked as a cyber security expert hacked huntsmen’s data before leaking their names and addresses online.

  • Into the multiverse? Google claims huge quantum computing advance

    STORY: Google says it has cracked a key challenge in quantum computing, with a new chip capable of almost unfathomable speeds. The tech giant says it can perform one standard test in under five minutes, one that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years. That’s vastly longer than the universe has existed. Google says the results lend credence to theories that quantum computing taps into a multiverse of parallel universes. Dubbed “Willow”, the new chip has 105 so-called “qubits” - the building blocks of quantum machines. They are super fast but also very error prone, and can be upset by something as tiny as a passing subatomic particle. Now Google says it’s found a way to make them more reliable, and says it can also correct errors in real time. That’s a big step towards building a practical quantum computer. Google hopes such devices could one day deliver huge advances in fields like AI and medicine. In a blog post Monday, it said that - even under ideal conditions - it would take a regular computer a billion years to get the same results as Willow. The processors are being crafted at a new purpose-built facility in Santa Barbara, California. Rival firms have focused on building chips with more qubits, but Google says improving reliability is the key to delivering a workable system.

  • Apple’s UK engineering teams have ‘doubled in size in five years’

    The iPhone maker said its investment in the UK in that time had risen to more than £18 billion.

  • This is 1 of the hottest themes in the stock market right now and it’s generating huge gains for investors

    This area of the stock market's absolutely on fire at the moment. And Edward Sheldon believes the momentum could continue in 2025. The post This is 1 of the hottest themes in the stock market right now and it’s generating huge gains for investors appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.

  • Hackers are exploiting a flaw in popular file-transfer tools to launch mass hacks, again

    Security researchers are warning that hackers are actively exploiting another high-risk vulnerability in a popular file transfer technology to launch mass hacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50623, affects software developed by Illinois-based enterprise software company Cleo, according to researchers at cybersecurity company Huntress. The flaw was first disclosed by Cleo in a security advisory on October 30 which warned that exploitation could lead to remote code execution.

  • Why you don't need to believe the death clock app powered by AI

    Online ‘death clocks’ that claim to prophesize the date of people’s deaths are almost as old as the internet itself.

  • Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

    Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality.The breakthrough in error correction, published in leading science journal Nature, showed that adding more qubits to the system actually reduced errors rather than increasing them -- a fundamental requirement for building practical quantum computers. 

  • Is Jaguar's new concept car stunning or rubbish? Yahoo Finance readers have their say

    The British luxury carmaker unveiled of its new Type 00 concept car last week to widespread controversy.

  • The phone apps that will make your life easier – and why you should delete the rest

    Every week in the UK, around 44 million apps are downloaded. Without them smartphones would just be phones. But according to a recent survey, a third of the apps on our phones are unused. They sit there in the background taking up memory space. Some act like digital spies, quietly collecting data about our habits that faceless companies can then sell on.

  • Bird-inspired robotic drone can leap into the air for takeoff

    In research published on December 4, scientists at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have taken drone technology to the next level with a birdlike robot. RAVEN, the Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments, took inspiration from crows on the university's campus to create an innovative drone that can hop, jump and leap into the air for takeoff.

  • Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip

    Google on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe. Like other tech giants such as Microsoft and International Business Machines, Alphabet's Google is chasing quantum computing because it promises computing speeds far faster than today's fastest systems. While the math problem solved by the company's Santa Barbara, California quantum lab does not have commercial applications, Google hopes quantum computers will one day solve problems in medicine, battery chemistry and artificial intelligence that are out of reach for today's computers.

  • X says its new image generator, Aurora, will launch for all users within the week

    X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, quietly added a new image generator to its Grok assistant this past Saturday. The image generator, called Aurora, was developed by Musk's AI company, xAI, and trained on billions of examples from the internet. In a blog post, xAI said that Aurora "excels at photorealistic rendering" and following text instructions, and can "take inspiration from or directly edit user-provided images."

  • Riverside raises $30 million Series C to expand its podcast and video recording platform

    Podcast recording platform Riverside said Monday that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Zeev Ventures, with participation from Seven Seven Six, and angel investor Sam Lessin. The startup also counts Casey Neistat, Marques Brownlee, Guy Raz,  Elad Gil and Alexander Klöpping as angel investors. Riverside's founder Nadav Keyson told TechCrunch that the company's valuation went up with the Series C raise but didn't specify the exact number.

  • Robot cat built to always stick landing could revolutionise asteroid mining, scientists say

    Scientists test robot in microgravity simulation to confirmed effectiveness

  • iOS 18.2 release date and time: how to download the latest iPhone software update

    Genmoji, Image Playground and a redesigned Mail app could be available as soon as Tuesday, December 10

  • Google CEO Says Easy AI Gains Are Over

    Uphill Battle Google CEO Sundar Pichai is saying sayonara to the era of easy AI advancements. At the New York Times Dealbook Summit last week, Pichai sat down to discuss one of the biggest questions hanging over the tech industry right now: whether or not current techniques for improving AI models are reaching their limit. He was a little mealy-mouthed when it came to directly addressing the technical side of the issue, but was unequivocal that the effortless newbie gains that AI development ini

  • Google’s quantum chip solves ‘impossible’ problems in five minutes

    Google has made a quantum computer chip that can solve a problem that would be impossible for the world’s most powerful traditional computers in just five minutes.

  • OpenAI launches video generation tool Sora

    The AI firm’s latest tool can create short videos based on text inputs from users.

  • AT&T stands out among US telecom stocks in Bernstein coverage launch

    Investing.com-- Bernstein analysts have initiated coverage on three major U.S. telecom stocks - AT&T Inc (NYSE:T), Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ), and T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS) - with distinct ratings reflecting their competitive positions and growth prospects.