The dream of autonomous vehicles is that they can avoid human error and save lives, but a new European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) report has found that autonomous vehicles are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Attacks considered in the report include sensor attacks with beams of light…
Concept: The natural next step for the iOS emoji keyboard after search is favorites
February 23, 2021
As Apple adds more emoji with each subsequent iOS update, it’s getting harder and harder to sift through all them just to find the emoji you want to use. The “frequently used” emoji panel helps with this to some extent, but it is dynamic and only “remembers” so…
iOS 14.5 makes zero-click exploits ‘significantly harder’ according to security researchers
February 23, 2021
Amid the other new features in iOS 14.5, Apple has also implemented changes to how it secures the code running in iOS. As reported by Motherboard, the changes Apple has made behind the scenes here will make it harder for hackers to develop zero-click exploits.
The report…
Genius Scan for iPhone gets overhaul with next-gen AI, shadow removal, smart renaming
February 23, 2021
Developer The Grizzly Labs is out with a major update to its popular Genius Scan app for iPhone and iPad. The new build features a totally overhauled app with “a next-generation AI” under the hood for smarter and enhanced filtering, smart document renaming, shadow removal, and more.
The Grizzly Labs shared details on Genius Scan 6.0 on its blog with the big update now available in the App…
Twitter relaunches ‘review before you tweet’ prompt on iOS to discourage offensive replies
February 23, 2021
Back in May of 2020, Twitter started testing a feature on iOS aimed at helping users rethink a reply before hitting the send button when it might contain offensive language. After pausing the testing, Twitter has announced today that it has relaunched the…
The foldable space continues to heat up as early issues are worked out. Today, Huawei launched its latest foldable, the Huawei Mate X2, which throws out the previous design and adopts what we love about the Galaxy Z Fold 2. Oh, and it costs $3,000.
Huawei’s original Mate…
Since the Pixel 3a, it’s been possible to use a physical SIM card and eSIM simultaneously. However, Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) on the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 does not currently support 5G networks, though that’s changing with Android 12.
Since launch, Google’s latest phones on Android 11 “fall back to 4G networks” when two SIMs are in use. It’s an inconvenience as users cannot take…
Journey to the Savage Planet has crashing issues on Stadia, Google working on a fix
February 23, 2021
Months after Google acquired the studio behind it, Journey to the Savage Planet finally made its debut on Stadia early this month with new expansions and no cost for Pro subscribers. Unfortunately, Journey to the Savage Planet on Stadia faced some crashing and freezing bugs…
Google working on built-in ‘Wear OS Screen Recording’ tool
February 23, 2021
Following a small tweak to the notification experience last week, Google’s next feature for Wear OS looks to be a Screen Recording tool. Similar in implementation to screenshots, evidence of this functionality appears in an update to the Wear OS Android companion app…
Google app tests new ‘Voice Search’ UI in sign that pre-Assistant lookup capability will remain
February 23, 2021
For the past two years, it seemed that Google was on track to replace “Voice Search” on Android with Assistant. That might not be the case anymore as a more modern UI for Google Voice Search is now being tested.
Voice Search, which preceded Assistant and is synonymous with the “Ok Google” hotword, lets you speak queries aloud and have them answered directly by Google Search. For…
