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Report: iPhone 12 may support new short-range WiFi standard, AirTags to charge wirelessly like an Apple Watch

February 24, 2020
According to Macotakara sources, the iPhone 12 lineup may support a new WiFi spec, 802.11ay, which is currently in the draft phase and expected to be finalized at the end of the year. 802.11ay uses 60GHz spectrum (separate from the 5GHz and 2.4GHz bands used in standard home router WiFi) to offer high-bandwidth device-to-device data transfer. It would be a perfect technology for Apple to use to…
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Security demo reminds iOS users that any app (or widget) can read the clipboard silently

February 24, 2020
A new demo from researchers at Mysk shines a light on the free, unrestricted, access all apps have to the iOS clipboard. In the video, the developers create a dummy app that simply prints out the information gleaned from the clipboard. When the user copies an image, the app can immediately see the image content and the metadata like the location of where the photo was taken. This becomes a little…
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Five staple iPhone apps that I use each day

February 23, 2020
I have quite a few third-party apps installed on my iPhone, but there are several staple apps that I use regularly that I’d have a hard time doing without. These apps include Apollo, the excellent full-featured Reddit client, NetNewsWire, a legendary RSS reader reimagined…
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AI is not just another technology project

February 23, 2020
AI, unlike any other initiative is a business transformation enabler and not another technology system implementation that business users need to be trained on. Traditionally, businesses choose either the classic waterfall approach of linear tasks, or the agile approach, where teams review and evaluate solutions as they are tested out. In contrast, implementing AI technology requires a different…
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AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria

February 23, 2020
The use of AI to discover medicine appears to be paying off. MIT scientists have revealed that their AI discovered an antibiotic compound, halicin (named after 2001‘s HAL 9000), that can not only kill many forms of resistant bacteria but do so in a novel way. Where many antibiotics are slight spins on existing medicine, halicin wipes out bacteria by wrecking their ability to maintain…
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