Category: System Software

October 16, 2018

Medtronic, a maker of medical devices and implants, has pulled the plug on its internet-based software update system, which security researchers had found had a dangerous security vulnerability The company said in a notice this week that it’s switching off […]

October 12, 2018

It’s almost 2019, if you can believe it, and more than fall leaves or pumpkin spice lattes, tech fans like myself relish the smell of a freshly unboxed smartphone (thanks to Apple’s annual September unveiling). But it’s not just consumers […]

October 1, 2018

GOOGLE COULD be planning a major curveball with its forthcoming Google Pixel Slate, one of two rumoured Chrome OS devices expected to launch on 9 October alongside the Pixel 3 range. A commit in Chromium, the open source version of […]

September 28, 2018

Google will be rolling out a software update for Smartwatches that use the Wear OS software today. This will be in fairly direct response to Apple launch of the Smartwatch series 4, and while the new update to wear OS […]

September 12, 2018

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook Reality Lab presented the Recycle-GAN system at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in Germany. It builds on the generative adversarial network (GAN) AI algorithm that moves one style of image onto […]

September 10, 2018

ONE OF the big additions to Android 9.0 Pie is ‘Digital Wellbeing’, a means to stop people staring into their phones all day. Google announced the feature at Google I/O back in the spring, but now it seems that the […]

September 7, 2018

Amazon’s Echo speakers are remarkably popular, mostly because they’re affordable and easy to use. Usefully, all Echos update themselves automatically whenever new software is available, so you shouldn’t have to worry about it. You can check which version your Echo […]

September 7, 2018

MICROSOFT IS to slow down the rate of updates to Windows 10 for corporate clients after IT admins complained they were drowning in patches. Since Windows 10 launched, the company has been working to a “Windows-as-a-Service” model whereby updates are […]

September 7, 2018

MICROSOFT HAS ANNOUNCED that it will offer an extension to Windows 7 support. For a price. Because of course. Windows 7 is due to reach end of life (EOL) in less than 500 days on 14 January 2020, but around […]

August 31, 2018

Good news for fans of wireless audio gear: Qualcomm has unveiled its new aptX Adaptive codec, which promises support for high-quality audio content, as well as improved performance over Bluetooth. It essentially combines the strengths of its previously released codecs, […]