Google Maps rolling out new teal accent color on Android, iOS
Like other first-party apps that lack Dynamic Color theming, Google Maps currently uses a blue accent for buttons and other UI elements, but that looks to be changing to teal.  more…
2024-12-12 09:13
Microsoft Edge to use Windows 11’s OCR to extract text from PDF (scanned or images)
Microsoft Edge keeps getting better, and we've spotted yet another interesting feature being tested internally. The new feature is called "OCR for PDF". This feature uses Windows 11's OCR engine. The post Microsoft Edge to use Windows 11’s OCR to ext...
2024-12-12 09:12
Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance
Last week Intel announced the Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards as their first Xe2 discrete GPUs. Ahead of the Arc B580 graphics card hitting Internet retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on the Intel Arc B580. Here is what to expect...
2024-12-12 09:00
How to chunk data using LINQ in C#
Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution pipeline directly into C# and the managed environments of .NET Framework and .NET Core. LINQ provides several ways to execute queries and handle complex data manipulation tasks. Ch...
2024-12-12 09:00
Azure hardware innovations and the serverless cloud future
Microsoft uses its events to lift the hood on Azure’s hardware and the infrastructure it uses to manage and run its services. Ignite 2024 was no different. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s regular Inside Azure Innovations presentation went into some d...
2024-12-12 09:00
InfoWorld’s 2024 Technology of the Year Award winners
Artificial intelligence, including generative AI, continues to evolve rapidly across enterprise organizations, despite a lot of heavy lifting still required of software developers and data scientists. Many organizations continue to struggle to move ge...
2024-12-12 09:00
Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential For Battlemage
Now that the initial Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming review on Linux is out, for productivity-minded users you may be more curious about the GPU compute potential... Here are some initial OpenCL and Level Zero results for the Intel Arc B580 graphic...
2024-12-12 09:00
Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support`
Earlier this month as part of patches for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel code for x86_64 systems, there was a patch to drop support for 32-bit x86 KVM host support. That patch has now been split off into its own patch series with also now raising the pr...
2024-12-12 08:29
Holiday Deal Hub: Exclusive offers on the best accessories and apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more [Updated]
Welcome to the 2024 9to5Mac Holiday Deal Hub. We have once again secured readers a load of exclusive deals on some of our favorite Apple gear accessory brands ahead of the holidays. Whether you’re looking to get a new leather or stainless steel Apple...
2024-12-12 08:01
Australia to make tech giants pay for using news content from local media publishers
The Australian government wants to make tech giants like Google and Meta continue to pay local news publishers for using their content. Read more...
2024-12-12 07:34
Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel
While the Linux 6.13 merge window only recently ended and that kernel won't be out until around the end of January followed by the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window, Intel software engineers on Wednesday sent out their first two pull requests to DRM...
2024-12-12 07:00
AMD GFX 11.5.3 Graphics Support Added To Mesa 25.0
AMD has added support for another RDNA 3.5 refresh variant to the Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems...
2024-12-12 06:38
KDE Gear 24.12 Released With Many Improvements To KDE Apps
Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications...
2024-12-12 06:13
The DoJ wants to ban TikTok before Donald Trump takes office in January
TikTok's parent ByteDance has a deadline of January 19 to either divest its social media app or face a ban. Read more...
2024-12-12 05:50
Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code
The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment...
2024-12-12 05:49
The FCC just made your upcoming wearables, WiFi, and other gadgets better
The FCC has opened up the entire 6 GHz band for very low-power (VLP) devices and here's how it will affect your next gadget. Read more...
2024-12-12 05:34
PanVK Advertises "Broken" Vulkan 1.1 Support With Mesa 25.0-devel
The PanVK open-source Vulkan API driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware within Mesa is now advertising Vulkan 1.1 support rather than Vulkan 1.0. But it's known to be "broken" so don't be too excited about it yet...
2024-12-12 05:21
Google Pixel 9a leaks again, this time with complete specs and price
Google's mid-ranger, Pixel 9a, has once again leaked, this time allegedly from a reliable source revealing complete specs and pricing. Read more...
2024-12-12 05:18
9to5Mac Daily: December 11, 2024 – iOS 18.2 officially launches, Apple Watch rumors
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. From now thro...
2024-12-12 01:29
ChatGPT down for some users; iOS 18.2 integration affected
OpenAI has acknowledged that its popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is currently experiencing an outage, making the platform inaccessible to users all over the world. This issue has also impacted the integration with Siri following the public release of iOS ...
2024-12-12 00:31