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Apple’s Pioneering Leap into Mixed Reality Unsettles Meta’s Hasty Quest 3 Launch

Apple, renowned for its relentless innovation, is once again poised to reshape the technology landscape. With the imminent release of its highly-anticipated mixed reality headset, the Reality Pro, Apple is about to step into a new era, overshadowing the surprise announcement of Meta’s Quest 3.

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Study Finds that Just Having Smartphone in Sight Reduces Quality of Conversation and Connection

A study out of Virginia Tech, dubbed “The iPhone Effect”, found that even just the very presence of an iPhone or Android phone, or other versions of smartphones, has a substantial negative impact on the quality of in-person conversations and connection. It also introduces us to the concept of ‘polyconsciousness’.

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Apple Patents iPhone Landing Glass Side Up

Taking a cue from cats, who generally always land on their feet, or perhaps from buttered bread always falling buttered side down, Apple has been awarded a patent for making your iPhone, iPod, or iPad always fall glass side up. Or, as Apple’s patent describes it, “a method of protecting a vulnerable area of an electronic device during freefall.”

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USB Devices Unsafe and Unfixable say BadUSB Security Researchers

That USB thumbdrive or flash drive that you have in your pocket may be a vector for all kinds of malware in the firmware, and once infected it cannot be fixed. In fact that’s true of any USB device, not just thumb drives. That’s the conclusion that Jakob Lell and Karsten Nohl, security researchers who have developed BadUSB, have reached.