Apple has advised owners of its new credit card to keep it away from leather and denim. Keeping the card in a leather wallet or in the pocket of a pair of jeans could cause "permanent discolouration". Source
Three has launched its 5G service for the home, initially available to residents of certain areas of London only. The network's UK chief executive, David Dyson, has previously said he believes 5G has the potential to end the need for fixed broadband. Source
"Ten phones, two laptops, digital cameras... all just sitting here. We're not dealing with it." Louise Lewis is surveying a collection of old gadgets that have piled up in her home. Source
Apple’s next Apple Watch revision could include new materials for the case, including titanium and ceramic. That’s according to new assets pulled form the latest watchOS beta release, as uncovered by Brazilian site iHelp.br (via 9to5Mac). The new screens discovered in the beta show graphics used to pair the Apple Watch during setup, and list [...]
Gamers around the world are preparing for the Fortnite Champions Series, which starts on Saturday. It is the first competitive event since last month's inaugural World Cup in New York, which had a record-breaking $30m (£24m) prize purse. Source
More than a million fingerprints and other sensitive data have been exposed online by a biometric security firm, researchers say. Source
There is growing pressure for more details about the use of facial recognition in London's King's Cross to be disclosed after a watchdog described the deployment as "alarming". Source
A US court has thrown out an attempt by Facebook to stop legal action over the way it collected images of people's faces. The case centres around images people uploaded to Facebook that were later used to help identify them in other pictures. Source
Following a failed attempt in July, French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crossed the Channel on top of a hoverboard this weekend. Starting his trek in Sangatte in northern France, the journey took 20 minutes, before landing in St. Margaret’s Bay, England. Source
Apple Card is getting its first group of public test users today. A limited amount of customers that signed up to be notified about the release of Apple Card are getting the ability to apply for the card in their Wallet app today — as well as the option to order their physical Apple Card. [...]
Tesla cars can now take on human players in a game of chess, thanks to a software update it pushed out to vehicles last month. Its programmers likely didn’t imagine they were designing a chess program to take on the best players in the world, however: U.S. No. 1 ranked chess player Fabiano Caruana (also [...]
In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide. Apple says it will review the process that it uses, called grading, to determine whether Siri is hearing queries correctly, or being invoked by mistake. Source
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