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  It's time to update all of your iOS devices. Apple on Monday held an event, where it announced several new services. One of those services, Apple News Plus, launches  alongside the release of iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4. Apple also announced Apple Card, a credit card that lives inside Apple Pay, a new Apple TV app for users to subscribe to individual channels, and Apple TV Plus, the company's subscription service for original programming. Shortly after the event ended, Apple released iOS 12.1 for iOS devices and the changelog reveals the update includes more than just Apple News Plus. Some of the highlights included the ability to use Siri on your iPhone to play a video or show on an Apple TV. There are four new Animoji -- an owl, boar, giraffe, and shark. Also included are improvements to Apple Pay Cash, and the ability to multitask while AirPlaying a video from an iOS device to an AirPlay device without interrupting the audio or video stream. You can read through the  ...

  Google’s upcoming Android version, currently referred to only as Android Q, will arrive later this summer with a trove of privacy enhancements. Details about these new additions have been revealed earlier this week after Google published  blog posts  and  new Android support pages  for Android Q following the release of a first beta version earlier this week. Below are all the privacy-focused features that are expected to land in the stable version of Android Q at the end of August. Access to clipboard data Android apps can no longer access the Android operating system’s clipboard data unless they are in focus (running in the foreground aka on screen). Apps can access clipboard data while in the OS background if they are also the default input method editor (IME) –aka the default keyboard apps. MAC address randomization on by default Google introduced  MAC address  randomization  in Android 6.0 , but devices broadcast a random MAC addr...

  Google, along with researchers at Stanford University and Brown University, have extended the open-source Snorkel tool to make it industrial-strength for enterprise machine learning. The work points the way to a path beyond traditional data integration. There's always been a rich market for software tools that clean up enterprise data and integrate it to make it more useful. With the mantra that "data is the new oil," there is more than ever a very good sales pitch to be made by vendors large and small, from Oracle to Talend. But what if nothing needed to be cleaned up, per se? What if, instead, the most valuable parts of the data could be transferred, in a sense, into machine learning models, without altering the data itself? That notion is implied by a new technology introduced Thursday by Google's AI team, in conjunction with Brown University and Stanford University. The code, which goes by the somewhat ungainly name "Snorkel DryBell," builds on top of ...

  5G is not the be all and end all, Cisco has said, with Wi-Fi 6 needed to enable indoor coverage and nano-satellites necessary for ensuring the entire world is connected. With 90 percent of the world's landmass and 3.7 billion people still without access to connectivity, Cisco Australia and New Zealand CTO Kevin Bloch has argued that while 5G is the hottest buzzword, nano-satellites are what is really needed right now. "Nobody here is going to benefit from 5G yet, and it's going to take a long time, because the speed on 4G is pretty good right now already," Bloch told at Cisco Live 2019 in Melbourne. "There might be a very small percentage of consumers who may want to ... buy the latest and greatest gadget, [but] 5G handsets will cost a lot more for only an incremental speed increase." On the other hand, Cisco is currently helping a lot of farmers in Australia who have no access to connectivity. "Yeah, the NBN is going to swing around, but there's ...

  Thanks to the rise of streaming, Samsung is discontinuing its Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray player lines. That's lousy news for people who love older TV shows and movies. Over 10 years ago,  Samsung   released the first commercial Blu-ray video disc player. Within a few years, Samsung and other Blu-ray OEMs had defeated their rival HD DVD manufacturers. They were set to dominate the video world. Then,   streaming came along   and everything changed. Blu-ray is dead. It's not often that an industry's leading OEM quits, but that's what Samsung has done. Samsung had 37 percent of the market, followed by Sony at 31 percent and LG at 13 percent, according to market research firm  NPD Group . On Amazon, Samsung had four of Amazon's  10 best-selling Blu-ray players  including the most popular model. With its demise, Blu-ray follows Laserdisc, BetaMax, and VHS VCRs into the second-hand stores. DVDs may soon follow. Ted Sarandos,  Netflix 's longtime head ...