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Tracking the iOS 14 update as news trickles in It may feel like iOS 13 only debuted yesterday, but that came out in September 2019 and we're set to get iOS 14 by the end of this year. The next big update for your iPhone is currently just rumored for now - Apple has yet to specifically confirm the name for the next piece of software - but it's very likely we'll be hearing officially about it soon. And given what was left out with iOS 13 and what new technology could be coming in the  iPhone 12  we can make some educated guesses about what’s coming in the next big iOS update. Some of these are obvious, like support for 5G should Apple finally decide to release a  5G iPhone  that works with the next-gen phone networks. If there's somehow an Apple foldable, well, iOS 14 will have software to make that work, too. Other iOS 14 features take a little bit of speculative leaps to imagine which tweaks Apple might make in its continual improvements on its iPhone opera...

For kids five and up If you're stuck at home trying to keep the kids entertained and educated, you've now got one more online resource to draw on – Google just launched a Read Along app for  Android  that helps kids over five with their reading. The app has previously been launched in India under the name Bolo, but is now available much more widely, across 180 countries and in nine languages. It uses Google's AI smarts to analyze the words that kids are saying in response to what's on screen, giving them feedback along the way through a virtual character called Diya. "Diya uses Google's text-to-speech and speech recognition technology to detect if a student is struggling or successfully reading the passage," explains Google engineer Zohair Hyder in a    blog post . "She gives them positive and reinforcing feedback along the way, just as a parent or teacher would," says Hyder. "Children can also tap Diya at any time for help pronouncing a wor...

Video conferencing service had claimed 300 million daily active users a month Zoom has come under fire after reportedly over-stating the amount of people using its service. The popular video conferencing platform had claimed it had “more than 300 million daily users” in a blog post earlier this month, but quietly changed this figure shortly after. According to The Verge, Zoom later edited this post, deleting the original wording and changing it to “300 million daily Zoom meeting participants” instead. Zoom updates As The Verge notes, the difference between a daily active user (DAU) and “meeting participant” is a big one, and means Zoom could have greatly over-stated the popularity of its service.Zoom appeared to count daily meeting participants multiple times, meaning that if you took part in several Zoom meetings in one day, the company counted you more than once - whereas a DAU is only counted once each per day. Other software providers, including Zoo...

Many of the defective systems are s till live Some of the most popular websites online today have leaked hundreds of millions of email addresses to advertisers and data analytics firms, according to a new research report. As a result of a defect in sign-up processes attached to websites such as Wish, MailChimp and the newly launched Quibi, user email addresses were funneled into the laps of the world’s largest advertisers, including Google, Facebook and Twitter. Authored by security researcher Zach Edwards, the report explains that clicking on links embedded within account confirmation emails caused addresses and other user data to be delivered to third parties, who could then use the information to inform personalised advertising efforts. The report does not make clear precisely how the email addresses were used by third party advertisers. Email address leaks This specific variety of breach occurs when an email address is appended to a URL following the activation o...

The more devices, the merrier WhatsApp will soon let you stay logged in on multiple devices, according to clues hidden in the app's latest beta release. We saw the first evidence of this feature earlier this year, when investigators at WABetaInfo discovered a line of code that explicitly referred to using the app on more than one device at once. This would be an extremely handy feature if you own both a phone and a tablet, or want to use WhatsApp Web occasionally, but several beta releases have gone by with no further news until now. The latest discovery is a new login screen that asks users whether they want to use Wi-Fi or mobile data when you 'log in on a new device'. At the moment, logging into the app on a second device means you're logged out of the first one automatically, so this is an interesting development. Big data transfers? As WABetaInfo notes, it's intriguing that the new login screen also says 'Without Wi-Fi, logging i...