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Notifications are one of the bugbears of modern apps. They’re annoying, but so addictive. And if you’re a fan of Instagram, that magenta icon is probably a familiar sight on your lock screen. But if you want to shut off, or at least streamline some of these notifications, Instagram thankfully allows you to do that… well, for the most part. Here’s how it works. Instagram offers rather granular control over what notifications you’ll receive, breaking them down into separate categories and allowing you to control several different kinds of notifications within those categories....

Apple today revealed its spruced up Maps app is available to everyone in the US, and it plans to roll it out to Europe in the next few months. It wouldn’t surprise me if some of you are returning to Maps to see what’s new, or trying out its new features for the first time. When Apple launched iOS 13, it also added several new features to Maps (some of which were suspiciously similar to those available in Google Maps) to increase the app’s utility....

Among the security issues being studied are backdoor attacks, in which a bad actor hides malicious behavior in a machine learning model during the training phase and activates it when the AI enters production. Until now, backdoor attacks had certain practical difficulties because they largely relied on visible triggers. But new research by AI scientists at the Germany-based CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security shows that machine learning backdoors can be well-hidden and inconspicuous....

— Huawei (@Huawei) August 2, 2019 After the intense media coverage of Trump blacklisting Huawei earlier this year — and the following fallout — it shouldn’t come as a surprise tthat 42 percent of more than 56,000 respondents thought it was owned by the Chinese government. I mean, what did Huawei think would happen? — John Trew (@johntrew888) August 6, 2019 — Fr4nc15 ?️☠️? (@fr4nc15_93) August 2, 2019 — Thomas ?...

Also, if you’re looking for a breakdown of the Huawei P40 Pro’s specs and everything that’s new, I suggest you head over here. Napier, my glorious colleague, did a fantastic job of covering all the details you need to know. Anyway, now that bit’s out the way, let’s get into some first impressions of the Huawei P40 Pro. It’s a looker First things first, the Huawei P40 Pro is a gorgeous....

Then, when a Twitter follower asked her about the vulnerability of protesters’ face masks, Rosenblatt answered yes, “a full profile could be detected from the inside of a face mask. Hold on to your PPE, people….” Police “stealing” your DNA from your face mask? This wasn’t a bit of dystopian sci-fi; it was a reminder of the myriad types of data that local law enforcement continuously collects from us and about us, both out in the world and during interactions with officers....

From transportation to commerce to hospitality, entire industries in the U.S. and abroad are all suffering deep across-the-board losses in the wake of COVID-19 aftereffects. While many industries face uncertain futures, software development and engineering isn’t likely to be one of them. Technology and the web is more vital now than ever, with software already supporting one in every 10 American jobs. With the average software developer making $114,000 a year —more than twice the annual U....

Yesterday, India’s Home Minister, Amit Shah, said during the investigation following the riots, the government had identified 1,100 rioters using facial recognition systems. [Read: After 8 months, Kashmir finally lifts social media ban — but only on 2G] More importantly, he noted cops used data from voter ID and driving license databases to identify insurgents: अभी तक 1100 से ज्यादा लोग पहचाने जा चुके हैं। इसमें 300 से ज्यादा लोग उत्तर प्रदेश से दिल्ली में दंगा करने के लिए आये थे जिसकी पुष्टि उत्तर प्रदेश से प्राप्त डाटा से हुई है जो बताता है कि ये बहुत गहरी साजिश थी। pic....

Blaise Fernandes, CEO, Indian Music Industry (IMI), a body that represents record labels in the country, told TNW in that there are 200 million unique subscribers of these apps. That figure will be closer to 250 million, if you count overlapping users’ accounts separately. While global players such as Spotify and Apple Music are trying to find their footing in the market, local players have already attracted millions of users with sizeable catalogs of Bollywood soundtracks, spiritual music, and regional favorites....

Dubbed GoPlay, the on-demand service is the latest to join the company’s ongoing quest to transform its single purpose app into a multi-functioning super app. GoPlay — which it calls a “movie/series streaming and download service” — costs IDR 89,000 a month ($6.27), over a dollar less than its rival Netflix, which costs anywhere between IDR 109,000 ($7.68, basic plan) and IDR 169,000 ($11.91, premium plan). A second plan for IDR 99,000 ($6....

Speaking at the TNW Conference 2022, author and investigative journalist Geoff White addressed this perplexing contradiction. “The case of North Korea is unique in the world, and therefore its computer hackers are absolutely unique in the world as well,” he explained. The fact that most governments employ computer hackers isn’t news. They employ them to obtain advantageous information that they can use to advance their country’s position. As per White, North Korean hackers do something slightly different....

Now, among all the social platforms out there, there’s one that rules them all when it comes to engagement, and that’s the almighty Instagram. And because of such a huge interest, the team from Socialinsider, together with Sked Social, conducted an Instagram engagement study, by analyzing 102 million posts, where they compared Instagram’s engagement in 2021 and its values in 2022. By examining 2021’s trends for Instagram marketing, social media managers can predict what type of content will perform best in 2022 and adapt their strategies accordingly....

As reported by Motherboard, hacker Pwn20wnd exploited the flaw to release a public version of the jailbreak on Monday, making it the first time an up-to-date firmware has been unlocked in years. The SockPuppet flaw (CVE-2019-8605), found in March by Googler Ned Williamson, allows a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with system privileges. Although Apple fixed the issue in its May iOS 12.3 update, the iOS 12.4 release in July has reintroduced the bug....

In a tweet, YouTube acknowledged that although there has been plenty of “good that did happen in 2020,” it ultimately doesn’t find it appropriate to wrap up the year with a new edition of Rewind. The unnamed culprit for this development, as we all can guess, likely is the coronavirus pandemic. “Since 2010, we’ve ended the year with Rewind,” the company wrote. “But 2020 has been so different. And it doesn’t feel right to carry on as if it weren’t....

Heck, even city folk who’ve never seen a tractor that wasn’t on a television screen know John Deere. The company’s so popular even celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and George Clooney have been known to rock a Deere hat. What most outsiders don’t know is that John Deere’s not so much a farming vehicle manufacturer these days as it is an agricultural technology company. And, judging by how things are going in 2022, we’re predicting it’ll be a full-on artificial intelligence company within the next 15 years....

Turns out it was the “final straw” for a group of Tesla shareholders, who’ve used the fiasco as leverage in a potential lawsuit that seeks to stop the enigmatic billionaire from tweeting any information at all regarding the company moving forward. According to AP, their lawyers have argued that Musk’s continued tweeting poses a direct threat to Tesla, and that his May 1 post breached conditions of a 2019 settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — which demand any tweet which might affect the value of Tesla stock be reviewed by another person before they go live....

The big idea Even whenkids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television, or text– it doesn’t appear to be harmful. That’s what my colleagues and I at the University of Colorado Boulder discovered after analyzing data taken from nearly 12,000 participants in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study – the largest long-term study of its kind ever in the U.S. The participants included children between the ages of 9 to 10, from diverse backgrounds, income levels, and ethnicities....

The system — which is the largest by megawatts per hour — aims to store electricity generated from renewable sources, such as wind turbines and solar farms, before releasing it at times of high customer demand. The so-called “Pillswood project” was developed by North Yorkshire renewable power firm Harmony Energy Income Trust and uses Autobidder, Tesla’s algorithmic trading platform. According to the company, the facility has the capacity to store up to 196MWh of electricity in a single cycle, making it able to power around 300,000 UK homes for two hours....

And the latest? Well, that’s a collection of iPhone 12 molds that — if accurate — give us a solid bit of insight into how Apple’s upcoming handset range will look. Well, enough chatter, here you go: These pictures were all leaked by the Twitter account JinStore — you can find the full collection of them here. As you can see from the leaked iPhone 12 molds, there’s a big design change afoot....

The short video shows off folding and unfolding of the device once, with its super tall screen in action. It also presents a small VGA display next to the camera to show time and notifications when the phone’s folded. — Ben Geskin (@BenGeskin) February 2, 2020 It’s not clear from the video if the screen is actually using the rumored bendable thin-glass display. If it ends up using the material, it’ll be the first device to use glass in foldable phones....