Technology News for Monday 15th April 2024

1. Apple iPhone first-quarter shipments sink as Chinese challengers rise; Samsung regains top spot

In the first quarter, Apple shipped 50.1 million units, down 9.6% from 55.4 million shipments in the same period a year earlier, IDC report showed. Among the top five smartphone brands, Apple recorded the sharpest year-on-year decline.

2. How Spotify AI plans to know what's going on inside your head, and find the right track for it

Spotify has over 100 million tracks available for listeners, and the streaming audio company is increasingly investing in AI to personalize song recommendations. · Its recently launched AI DJ aims to help listeners move out of their comfort zone and into ...

3. Apple loses spot as world's top smartphone seller as iPhone sales drop 10%

The world's top five smartphone companies -- Samsung, Apple, Xioami, Transsion, and Oppo -- sold a combined 289.4 million phones in the first quarter, up 7.8% year-on-year, according to data from International Data Corp.

4. Apple loses spot as world's top smartphone seller as iPhone sales drop 10%

The world's top five smartphone companies -– Samsung, Apple, Xioami, Transsion, and Oppo –- sold a combined 289.4 million phones in the first quarter, up 7.8% year-on-year, according to data from International Data Corp.

5. 'First people on Mars in 7-9 years': Elon Musk envisions 1000 spaceships take off for the red planet

In a conversation with Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of Norway's Norges Bank Investment Management, Musk said that SpaceX would also be sending people to the Moon, which would be sooner than the human mission to Mars. Join Our WhatsApp Channel.

6. Apple Is No Longer The World's Biggest Smartphone Maker By Volume—As Samsung Ships More Handsets In Q1

Apple's sharp slump came despite the overall smartphone market growing 7.8%—driven largely by booming shipments of smartphones made by Chinese firms. The drop in iPhone shipments means Samsung became the world's ...

7. Ikea's New Range Is Stealth Mode for Gamers

Instead, it's latched onto other spaces in the home, adapting to what those rooms were already made for. Game consoles sit in living rooms designed to be comfortable spaces to watch TV. PC gaming setups imitate the posture of a home office, which are ...

8. Ikea's new gaming furniture is bright, flexible, and inflatable

Destroying the stereotype of dark and tech-centric video game furniture wasn't Ikea's goal, but that may be what it's just done. The home goods retailer has just unveiled a new collection of gaming furniture that throws huge splashes of color and ...

9. Rocket Lab to launch NASA's new solar sail technology no earlier than April 24

A NASA solar sail mission meant to test new space travel materials in Earth's orbit is scheduled to lift off no sooner than April 24, the space agency announced on Thursday (April 11). Named the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, ...

10. IKEA unveils BRÄNNBOLL: a game-changing collection for gaming across the home

Two children are sitting in a green inflatable chair and a yellow easy chair, faced. Published 15 April 2024 • Inter IKEA newsroom. IKEA unveils BRÄNNBOLL: ...

11. Aston Martin DB12 Volante review

“Aston at its best. And possibly the best Aston. A classic, elegant GT you no longer have to make excuses for inside and on the road”. Good stuff. The beauty, the power, material quality, sumptuous blend of comfort and agility. Bad stuff.

12. Samsung Overtakes Apple as World's Top Smartphone Provider

Samsung Electronics has overtaken Apple as the world's top smartphone provider in the first quarter, according to data from research firm International Data Corporation. Global shipments of Apple smartphones fell 9.6% year-over-year to 50.1 million ...

13. Adobe Previews Breakthrough AI Innovations to Advance Professional Video Workflows Within Adobe Premiere Pro

New generative AI tools coming to Premiere Pro this year enable users to streamline editing all videos, including adding or removing objects in a scene or extending an existing clip. These new editing workflows will be powered by ...

14. AI Briefing: Cloud giants' AI ambitions create new partnerships — and new competitive concerns

However, the tech giant also announced new partnerships for its ecosystem with startups like Lytics and Pantheon, which will help marketers use generative AI to create personalized campaigns without third-party cookies. Google Cloud also announced ...

15. Apple is no longer No. 1 in smartphones. Here's why that may not matter

A person poses holding the original iPhone and the new iPhone 15 outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York City ahead of the launch of Apple's new iPhone 15, Sept. 22, 2023. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images ...

16. One of World's Leading Honesty Researchers Accused of Plagiarism

Another day, another academic researcher is being accused of dishonesty. In this case, it is Francesca Gino, recently the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The particular kind of dishonesty in question is ...

17. Apple Vision Pro Review: The First Pass At Spatial Computing Is An Accessible One For All

Year after year, Apple puts out software across its expanse of operating systems—including visionOS—that makes its devices accessible to the disability community. Apple is not, and never has been, beyond reproach—and that is true for accessibility.

18. Everything New In 'Overwatch 2' Season 10

It's called Mirrorwatch, in which Overwatch characters become bad guys and Talon operatives become the good guys. There will be an accompanying limited-time mode with reimagined hero abilities that runs from April 23 until May 13.

19. Adobe Announces Acrobat AI Assistant Subscription as It Expands AI Tools

Adobe announced an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for Acrobat on Monday. The add-on will be available to users Tuesday through a subscription starting at $4.99 per month. The Acrobat AI assistant can summarize documents, provide citations, ...

20. Microsoft users alert! Govt. warns against risk in Windows, Office, Bing and Outlook: How to protect your device

CERT-In, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, has raised a significant warning regarding the safety of users utilizing various Microsoft services. This caution comes after the discovery of multiple weaknesses in Microsoft products, with the ...

21. Everybody's Playing Fallout -- Here's How to Get Fallout 76 for Free

Now that the new Fallout TV show has emerged from the vault on Amazon Prime Video, everyone has remembered how good the Fallout games are. Right now, on the Steam charts, Fallout 76 is the second most-played game after Helldivers 2.

22. Adobe Premiere Pro is getting generative AI video tools — and hopefully OpenAI's Sora

These new Firefly tools — alongside some proposed third-party integrations with Runway, Pika Labs, and OpenAI's Sora models — will allow Premiere Pro users to generate video and add or remove objects using text prompts (just like Photoshop's Generative ...

23. Airchat Is Silicon Valley's Latest Obsession

Ravikant didn't say this to WIRED, or on Twitter or Threads. He said it in a short audio post within his own app, accompanied by a transcription. If a voice note drops in a forest and only Silicon Valley's early adopters are there to hear it, does it make ...

24. Construction begins on long-awaited Fredericton performing arts centre

The new centre, at the corner of Regent and King streets downtown will replace the Fredericton Playhouse. The new centre has been in the works for about six years, with plans changing, construction start-dates moving and the price-tag increasing.

25. 2024 Aston Martin DB12 Volante Offers Sunshine and Substance

The Pacific Ocean was iron gray, but the Volante was ocean blue (Caribbean Blue on the order sheet), and with a heated steering wheel and heated seats in leather the color of a white-sand shore, we made our own warm, beachy weather as we outran the rain up ...

26. A Video Game Made Out of Brick, Clay and Tenacity

The handcrafted Harold Halibut, about a hapless janitor stuck in an undersea city, was more than a decade in the making.