Apple today released iOS 16.1.1 and iPadOS 16.1.1, minor bug fix updates that that come two weeks after the launch of iOS 16.1, an update that added support for iCloud Shared Photo Library, Matter, Live Activities, and more.

The contracting for the next moon buggy for Artemis has begun.

LG Disply has developed a 12-inch stretchable display that can be extended in size to 14 inches, the company announced. The displays could one day be used in materials with irregular surfaces like clothes and wearables to display messages on the uniforms of first responders, for example.

Forbes reports that JRR Tolkien's estate may have earned up to $500 million on the sale of the rights to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings this year to Embracer.

Although Cantonese is spoken by 80 million Chinese around the world, its influence is waning due to pressure from Beijing to favor Mandarin as the official language in China. But the decline has stirred some people to try to preserve the language.

Google says it’s committed to connecting voters with accurate information. But the company is again allowing misleading ads to target people searching for how to vote. Google is serving misleading ads in English and Spanish to Americans looking for information on how to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new Tech Transparency Project (TTP) investigation that raises questions about Google’s commitment to provide accurate information about voting.

A new report examing the impact of Apple’s privacy feature, App Tracking Transparency, indicates Apple’s ads business appears to have financially benefitted as a result of the feature’s launch. Now over a year old, App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, reached mass adoption in June 2021, allowing for a comparative year-over-year analysis of the post-ATT mobile ads landscape, which finds how Apple has benefitted from the privacy update.

Infowars host Alex Jones faces the possibility of having more steep penalties heaped onto the vast amount he already owes for spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as the punitive damages phase began Friday in a lawsuit filed by the victims’ families.

Kanye West paid a settlement to a former employee who alleged he had used antisemitic language in the workplace, according to documents seen by NBC News. In addition, six people who have worked with West or witnessed him in professional settings over the past five years said they had heard the US rapper praise Adolf Hitler or mention conspiracy theories about Jewish people.

Two weeks after a New York jury sided with Kevin Spacey in a sexual abuse lawsuit, an Italian film museum announced Thursday that the actor would receive a lifetime achievement award and teach a master class there early next year.

Investors have expressed their ire in meetings with Meta executives, including some conferences with Mark Zuckerberg over the past week, FT reported.

Fake online reviews are under attack. The Federal Trade Commission just announced it wants new rules to combat deception. The FTC says stricter guidelines and p

When underwater cables congregate in one place, things get tricky.

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s obnoxious aerial marketing.

Young voters turned out in big numbers for the US presidential contest in 2020. But will they be as motivated to cast their ballots in the midterm elections on 8 November? From TikTok influencers to 20-something candidates, Gen Z is already focused on getting out the vote.

Microsoft is trying to capitalize on PC Game Pass growth.

In one scheme, Dhirendra Prasad and a co-conspirator got Apple to buy back its own components.

Banned accounts will not be allowed back onto Twitter until the social media platform has "a clear process for doing so," Elon Musk tweeted in the early hours on Wednesday, giving more clarity about the potential return of Twitter's most famous banned user, former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Elon Musk reportedly wants to charge people $20 per month to keep their blue check marks on Twitter. Author Stephen King said "fuck that."

Statcounter says Number 10 is still Number 1 in the Windows world

The change it hinted at in September has rolled out.

On Reddit, people have also complained about crummy Google Search results.

Google Hangouts is scheduled for death today. The phone app has been individually booting people off the service since July, but the last vestiges of Hangouts, the web app, will be shut down today. For a brief period, Hangouts was Google's best, most ambitious, most popular messaging effort, but 5 billion downloads later, Google is moving on.

Apple and Google have both come under fire for allegedly having a strong monopoly on the app industry.

Ye posted news of his latest social media suspension on the conservative platform Parler, which he is set to acquire.

The right-wing social network faces two federal investigations and an uncertain financial future. But it has still managed to outpace its rivals.

Use of live facial recognition (LFR) by UK police forces "fail[s] to meet the minimum ethical and legal standards," according to a study from the University of Cambridge. After analyzing LFR use by the Metropolitan (Met) and South Wales police, researchers concluded that the technology should be banned for use in "all public spaces." LFR pairs faces captured by security cameras to database photos to find matches. China and other non-democratic regimes have used the technology to as part of their state surveillance tools.

Competition, miscalculations, and regulatory scrutiny have all but killed the advertising giant's dreams of diversifying its business and rolling up the digital world into its platform.

It sounds like Microsoft will treat Call of Duty like Minecraft.

A paralyzed man who hasn’t spoken in 15 years uses a brain-computer interface that decodes his intended speech, one word at a time.