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Making good on its promise, Apple is giving its HomePod line of devices the ability to detect smoke and carbon monoxide alarms via its Sound Recognition tool. Yes, that includes the discontinued first-gen HomePod model. When it detects an alarm going off, the HomePod will immediately send a notification to either your iPhone, iPad, or […]

It seems like we’re in the midst of something exciting for AMD when it comes to the creative market. Team Red seems to have gotten a bit of its mojo back after having launched a pair of new graphic cards for workstations (the Navi-3 infused W7900 and the W7800), GPUs may be the precursors to […]

Facebook might owe you some money and now you have the means to collect. Meta, Facebook's parent company, agreed late last year to pay out $725 million to settle the Cambridge Analytica data privacy leak class-action lawsuit. The now four-year-old case started after journalists discovered the political research firm had collected and shared private data […]

Russian state-sponsored threat actors have built custom malware and are using it against old, unpatched Cisco IOS routers, a joint US-UK report has warned.  The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a report in […]

It looks like Sennheiser is getting ready to launch the Sennheiser Ambeo Mini, a new super-compact Dolby Atmos soundbar, very soon – judging by a leak on the company's own website that revealed the as-yet-unannounced TV speaker. The soundbar says that it will deliver “the world’s most immersive sound possible from just one compact device”, […]

Over two-thirds (68%) of organizations say they suffered a cyberattack at some point during the last twelve months, new figures from Netwrix have claimed.  The cybersecurity firm polled 1,610 IT professionals from 106 countries and published the results in its annual global 2023 Hybrid Security Trends Report.  Besides the rising number of breached firms, the […]

If you've been having frustrating issues with Spotify today, you're not alone – the music streaming service suffered a major outage, but fortunately most of the issues appear to have been resolved. The outage hit most of Spotify's major functions, including search, offline listening its browser-based web player. Users all over the world, including at TechRadar, […]

An intrepid hardware tinkerer has managed to upgrade the Raspberry Pi 4 computer board to sport a hefty 16GB of RAM – in a manner of speaking. This comes from YouTuber MadEDoctor, who boosted the system memory attached to an entry-level Raspberry Pi 4 from 1GB to the mentioned 16GB, as shown in a video […]

The Windows 11 (and 10) app Microsoft Paint just got modded to allow the software to be used to create basic animations (and more besides). This feat of app hacking was achieved by YouTuber Sam Chiet, who tweeted an example of what’s described as Flipnote-style animation software (via Windows Central). I just hacked MS Paint […]

Following the widespread adoption of remote work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a portion of the population decided to embrace what became known as a ‘digital nomad’ lifestyle. Untethered by the need to commute to an office every day, these people set out to travel and sightsee while working remotely from their vans, […]