Apple spends a fortune to defeat a teen
Published in Mobiles

Claimed Beeper Mini was serpent in walled garden

Apple has spent a week of its time and energy trying to undo the work of a 16-year-old high school student who reverse-engineered Apple's messaging protocol, launching an interoperable Android app called "Beeper Mini".

Doom turns 30
Published in Gaming
11 December 2023

Doom turns 30


And the modern games industry began

The first “modern” computer game Doom is celebrating its 30th birthday today.

Big companies sign up to tackle Internet latency issues
Published in News


L4S kills buffer bloat

Big companies are becoming more interested in the L4S stands for Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput which should speed up the Internet for most users.

Race is on for 2nm processing
Published in News


Samsung sets 2025 for 2nm and 2027 for 1.4nm

The big foundries are starting to gear up for 2nm processing.

Fairphone 5 gets perfect score from iFixit
Published in Mobiles


Could last ten years 

The iFixit team pulled apart the newest Fairphone 5 smartphone and awarded its highest score for repairability: 10 out of 10.

UK mulls anti-trust probe against Microsoft and OpenAI
Published in News


Are they too close for comfort?

UK competition watchdogs are investigating the relationship between the software King of the World Microsoft and AI company OpenAI.

UK mobile phone operators face class action
Published in Mobiles


Loyalty lock-ins might have been illegal 

The UK's biggest mobile phone operators could face total damages of $4.15 billion following class-action claims that they allegedly charged 5 million existing customers "loyalty penalties" over 16-years.

Apple plans to make a quarter of iPhones in India
Published in Mobiles


Wants to avoid China crisis

Apple and its suppliers aim to build more than 50 million iPhones in India annually within the next two to three years, with additional tens of millions of units planned afterwards.

Chromebooks are not good for the world
Published in PC Hardware


Lenovo will keep making them

Lenovo will keep making Chromebooks even if they are bad for profits and for polar bears. 

European Union releases first AI rules
Published in News


Do no harm

European Union negotiators have hatched out a deal on the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal oversight of technology used in popular generative AI services like ChatGPT.