(Reuters) — Apple has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to buy replacement phones or batteries.
The preliminary proposed class-action settlement was disclosed on Friday night and requires approval by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California.
It calls for Apple to…
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 is starting to arrive in customer’s hands this week, and the company is already pushing out an update. The Galaxy S20’s March security update delivers security enhancements, performance upgrades, and more.
As it stands right now, it appears there…
Last year, AT&T was working on a trial for an alternative to traditional cable, with everything powered by a custom Android TV box. Today, for everyone who wants to sign up, but there’s a bit of a catch.
The good news? AT&T TV is affordable (at the start) and…
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) — two-part AI models consisting of a generator that creates samples and a discriminator that attempts to differentiate between the generated samples and real-world samples — have been applied to tasks from video, artwork, and music synthesis to drug discovery and misleading media detection. They’ve also made their way into ecommerce, as Amazon…
Android 11 has a bunch of tweaks to the operating system we’ve come to love, some major and some minor. Now, a little while after the first developer preview landed, we’ve spotted a new feature that tells Android 11 users when their phone is misaligned for wireless…
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series is scheduled to go on sale and start shipping to customers this Friday, but as is usually the case with Samsung’s launches, pre-orders are going out early. If you ordered a Galaxy S20 online, it’s probably shipping early and possibly even…
Everything Apple could release this month: iPhone 9, new iPad Pro, MacBook refresh, more
March 2, 2020
As we enter March, the number of rumors about upcoming Apple hardware continue to rise. There’s a palpable feeling that Apple is about to release new shiny stuff soon, although no one is 100% sure of exactly what is coming down the pipe. With the coronavirus outbreak spreading, Apple’s plan for the summer season are also in question.
Here’s a look at everything Apple could release this…
For quite some time, Android has been teasing trigger-based settings by the name of “Rules.” We thought that’d be available widely in Android 10, but Google never launched the feature. Now, Android’s “Rules” are starting to show up on a lot of Google Pixel…
OECD on AI Policy Observatory launch: ‘The technology is not terribly well understood by policy makers’
March 2, 2020
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development has officially launched its AI Policy Observatory, a project whose mission is to share best practices around the creation of artificial intelligence regulations. The interactive website contains a wealth of information…
It’s almost a cliché to say that Apple and Samsung dictate the tempo of the smartphone market, but there’s now more evidence to support that claim. Counterpoint Research has calculated that nine out of the top ten smartphones sold worldwide in 2019 were made by either Apple or Samsung — Oppo’s A5 was the only exception at fifth place. The iPhone XR had the clear lead…
