Apple’s Rejection of a Dictation App Reopens an Accessibility API Fight
The developer behind Whisper Pad, an offline dictation app for the Mac, built the software in part because of a hand injury that made typing painful. The app worked by…
Apple’s Smart Glasses Slip to Late 2027 as Siri’s Rebuild Drags
The date on the calendar keeps moving, but the pitch has not changed. Inside Apple’s Vision hardware group, the company’s first consumer smart glasses, a device internally code-named N50, were…
Microsoft Backs Down After Threatening a Security Researcher
The statement was short, and the reversal was total. On June 1, Microsoft said it has no intention of pursuing legal action against individuals who conduct or publish security research,…
New Glenn Explodes on the Pad, Setting Back Blue Origin’s Comeback
The fireball climbed over Cape Canaveral just after 9 p.m. on May 28, punching through the cloud deck and spreading a mushroom cloud across the Florida Space Coast. Cameras fixed…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Destroyed in Launchpad Explosion
The explosion was audible 15 miles away. Witnesses along Florida’s Space Coast saw a fireball rise above the tree line at Cape Canaveral just after 9 p.m. Thursday, as Blue…
GitHub Bans Security Researcher Who Published Windows Zero-Day Exploits
The researcher known online as Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare-Eclipse has spent months at war with Microsoft. This week, the company, which owns GitHub, cut off one of their accounts, deleting…
Samsung Pay Deal Averts 18-Day Chip Strike
The vote closed at 7 a.m. Wednesday, minutes before a strike deadline that had hung over the world’s largest memory-chip maker for weeks. Union officials in Suwon, south of Seoul,…
EU Fines Temu €200 Million Under Digital Services Act
Brussels delivered its verdict Thursday morning: Temu, the Chinese e-commerce giant that has upended European retail with ultra-cheap goods, will pay €200 million — about $232 million — for failing…
DDR4 Module Prices Slide as Memory Buyers Sit on Inventory
In Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen’s warren of electronics stalls, memory modules stack ceiling-high in shopfronts that measure business in cartons moved per day. This week, the cartons are moving slower. Industry-standard 8GB…
Dropbox’s Drew Houston Hands Over the CEO Role
In 2007, Drew Houston forgot a USB drive on a bus from Boston to New York, and the annoyance became a company. The frustration of carrying files on physical media…
