Football players are issuing “stop processing” requests to gaming, betting and data-processing firms over the use of their performance, health and injury data, citing ethical concerns with how the information being distributed about them can affect their career prospects. Under Article 21 of the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), individuals have the right to…

During its quarterly earnings (via Nikkei Asia), TSMC announced plans to make 30% of its best chips in Arizona, a move that it hopes will help the US create an “independent” chip cluster.However, TSMC chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stated that the manufacturer “is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint…

We’ll always remember the Nintendo Switch 2 launch event because it coincided with Trump’s new tariffs announcements that would continue to escalate in the weeks following the Switch 2 event.Just as Nintendo revealed the Switch 2 would start at $449.99 in the US, some $50 more expensive than expected, almost the entire world got hit…

After launching the Gemini 2.5 Pro model a few weeks ago, Google has a new AI product ready for testing. Gemini 2.5 Flash is supposed to bring more affordable AI reasoning to tasks that require more thinking.Google lets users specify a budget and turn reasoning on and off depending on the task. Not everything you…

One of the most common complaints among iPhone users is lens flare when taking photos. When the image features a bright light source like the Sun in the background, it’s likely that users will see some lens flare in their pictures.Last year, leaker yeux1122 mentioned that Apple was testing a new camera lens coating to…

UK based legal professor Or Brook has filed a class action against Google worth approximately £5bn in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The class action, brought on behalf of hundreds of thousands of UK-based organisations that used Google’s search advertising services, accuses Google of abusing its near-total dominance in the general search market to…

The iPhone 16e was just released in March, but this was apparently enough for Apple to become the world’s top smartphone vendor in the first quarter. The iPhone 16e is credited with the win for Apple, which means the affordable new iPhone 16 version is quite popular with buyers. I saw this coming a mile away.…

Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a major new AI initiative targeting the education sector. The Claude for Education program includes an AI Learning Mode for students as well as AI tools that the entire faculty can use. Anthropic also announced partnerships with a few educational institutions.Unsurprisingly, OpenAI didn’t wait long to respond with its own…

Apple’s next iPhone 17 models are expected to be the last to feature a 3nm chip. This technology was first introduced with the iPhone 14 Pro, and Apple has been improving its manufacturing processes. However, it seems the company (and TSMC, of course) is almost ready to move on production to a more complex 2nm…

A study from connectivity intelligence provider Ookla has revealed the UK’s capital lags behind the country’s large cities across key 5G performance indicators – with the gap widening – and that mobile users in London spend more time in signal not-spots with no service than residents of other UK cities, reflecting lingering coverage gaps indoors…