At its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, Apple announced a late but major move into AI with “Apple Intelligence,” confirming months-long rumors that it would partner with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to iPhones. Elon Musk, one of the cofounders of OpenAI, was quick to respond…

Could white holes be doorways to distant regions of the universe or to other universes entirely, or just endless fountains spraying matter and energy? Most people are familiar with the concept of a black hole: a “hole” or extreme warping in space and time that endlessly…

At the beginning of June, Apple’s big WWDC developers conference gave us our first look at iOS 12, but didn’t bring us any new hardware, not even the iPhone SE 2, the rumored refresh of Apple’s entry-level handset. The real 2018 iPhones — the successor to…

If there is an emerging technology that seems to genuinely be on the tip of everyone’s tongue in 2018, it is blockchain. While often associated with cryptocurrencies, blockchain appears to be permeating every conceivable field, with downloadable music for DJs being no exception. We had a…

When Apple publicly releases iOS 12 this autumn, there’ll be a host of new security boosting features that are sure to frustrate police and Facebook. As Apple revealed its new operating system for iPhones and iPads at the start of June, there was little fanfare. When…

What goes up, must go down… what does down, must go up…? After a big and bloody plunge this week — which saw the price of bitcoin touch a two-month low of sub-$6,000 — the crypto market has mounted a comeback with double-digit gains across the board.…

A new vulnerability discovered by a Cisco researcher could allow hackers to gain access to the internal storage and stored passwords on your iOS or Mac device – and all they’d have to do is send you a malicious image file. Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos…

The field of artificial intelligence has been a boom market almost from its beginning 60 years ago with the brilliant but doomed British mathematician Alan Turing. One branch of AI believes that a computer will one day duplicate how the human brain works, once the technical…

Get ready for artificial intelligence and automation that helps you make business decisions rather than just understanding what happened in the past Business intelligence has gone from static reports that tell you what happened, to interactive dashboards where you can drill into information to try and…

Encryption is a vital self-defense tool, so here’s how to enable it on all your devices and computers running the major OSes The FBI’s inability to crack a terrorist’s iPhone 5c shows the strong protection you can get for your private information on a mobile device.…