US officials confront China over Volt Typhoon cyberattacks

US officials confront China over Volt Typhoon cyberattacks

US government officials appear to have directly accused the Chinese government about its role in supporting cyberattacks against the former’s networks. The discussions specifically concern the Volt Typhoon group, which is responsible for a number of critical recent cyberattacks against US infrastructure, and has managed to maintain persistent access to the sites it has attacked. … Read more

How ignorance and gender inequality thwart treatment of a widespread illness

How ignorance and gender inequality thwart treatment of a widespread illness

Credit: Chiara Zarmati On a visit to a woman at home in rural Zambia, community-health worker Janet Chisaila unpacks a bag that contains swabs, sample pots and a 3D-printed model of a vagina and cervix. Using the model, Chisaila explains how to use the swabs to take genital samples. The woman then goes to a … Read more

iPad Air vs. iPad Pro Buyer’s Guide: 30+ Differences Compared

iPad Air vs. iPad Pro Buyer’s Guide: 30+ Differences Compared

The iPad Air is now available in two size options, just like the iPad Pro. Yet after a significant update to the ‌iPad Pro‌ that introduces a thinner design and OLED displays, how different are the two product lines and which should you buy? The introduction of the fourth-generation ‌iPad Air‌ in September 2020 brought … Read more

Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) Review: A Two-Screened Laptop That Nails It

Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) Review: A Two-Screened Laptop That Nails It

Conceptually, it’s very close to what Lenovo did last year with the Yoga Book 9i, complete with shorthand gestures that help you pull up a virtual keyboard or touchpad, expand the screen to fill both displays or “flick” content from one screen to the other. This is all fairly easy to get the hang of. … Read more

Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs might be slower but this could help fix a major issue

Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs might be slower but this could help fix a major issue

Normally CPU performance increases with newer generations but, according to a new leak, the upcoming Intel chips may be going against the grain. A new leak reveals that the Intel Arrow Lake desktop lineup may have a clock speed of up to 5.5 GHz, much lower than its current flagship Intel Core i9-14900KS which can … Read more

Chromebook owners are getting a much-wanted feature – a central hub to find all the best apps for their laptop

Chromebook owners are getting a much-wanted feature – a central hub to find all the best apps for their laptop

Chromebook users are set to get a single central hub to download apps and games for their devices, meaning they won’t have to worry about where to find the various diverse applications they might want. Whatever app you might want to download – whether it’s Android, Linux, or a Progressive Web App (PWA – think … Read more

The leaked Beats Pill speaker may have just showed up again in iOS 17.5

The leaked Beats Pill speaker may have just showed up again in iOS 17.5

Thanks to some not-so-subtle leaking by various celebrities in recent weeks, we know that a Beats Pill speaker is most probably on the way – and new images spotted in the upcoming iOS 17.5 software all but confirm it. Some digging through the iOS 17.5 test code done by the team at AppleInsider has revealed … Read more