1. Time to update Google Chrome now! There’s a good chance your Chrome browser hasn’t automatically updated itself! I use Safari on my Mac, and only use Chrome occasionally, so this is an update I personally needed to do, and have now done.
The new patches from last week fix two security holes, one of which is an actively exploited vulnerability that would let a hacker break into your computer.
If you never close the browser window or have a Chrome extension that is stopping you from updating the browser, you wouldn’t be protected, so it’s definitely worth clicking on the three vertical dots on the right of your profile icon at the top right hand side of the Chrome browser window, putting the cursor on help, and then clicking on “about google chrome”.
If it starts downloading an update and wanting you to restart, you’ll know you weren’t updated. If it says you’re already up-to-date, then good, your automatic browser updates are working, but it’s always good to double check and be sure.
This article from Malwarebytes has more information.
2. Steve Jobs once said that while headphones could deliver speaker quality audio right to your ears, he noted there weren’t any “headphones for video”, and until somebody invented that and you could take it around with you, and have an even better experience than watching it on your 50-inch plasma, we would have these two opposing constraints.
As commenters on the YouTube page this video is hosted on have noted, this was astoundingly accurate and predictive, and it does make me wonder if this is what Steve Jobs wanted to deliver when he told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he had “cracked it” when speaking of the problem of the TV interface.
Jobs knew exactly the type of device he wanted, and he wasn’t able to tell his biographer about it in great detail, but when he said he’d cracked it, it was a far grander vision than the Apple TV user interface, but an entirely new category of ultra realistic portable screen that contains a fully functioning computer you work with in the most natural manners possible, too – by looking, speaking and gesturing.
Vision Pro looks like it is Steve Jobs’ newest legacy, something he had been planning for a long, long time, knowing how long it would take before even Apple could build such a device, which it has now unveiled, 47 years after its founding on April 1, 1976.
3. Beyond that, Apple’s new Vision Pro headset has been received really well by the tech press Apple has invited to see and experience it, and the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive.
Of course there have been articles from people who think it’s a “$3500 ticket to nowhere” and a fad that won’t take on, and that you can buy 7 $499 headsets for, but similar things were said about the iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, too, and look where Apple is today.
Given Apple’s attention to detail and love of a well planned and executed product launch and pipeline, it is unsurprisingly being reported Apple is already said to be working on two successor headsets to the Vision Pro, with obvious suggestions that more affordable versions are coming, which is only natural.
4. Samsung’s fifth-generation foldables are launching at the next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event, being held in Seoul, South Korea for the first time/
We’ll see the Samsung’s Galaxy Flip 5 and Galaxy Fold 5, with leaks of the Galaxy Flip 5 showcasing a front screen that takes up almost all of the phone’s outer shell when the phone is closed, with previous generations of the front screen have traditionally been a lot smaller. Here’s an article with leaked info and an image of the Flip 5.
More on this all when it launches, plus what is happening with the Galaxy Fold 5, too – here’s an article with more detail.
5. ’m in San Francisco, for AMD’s launch of its new Data Center and AI technologies. The event doesn’t start until tomorrow, so I’m yet to learn all the details and will share that next week, but it’s sure to be good news that advances the start of the art and accelerates the future even faster!
More detail will be at the AMD website tomorrow – and you can watch live and a replay of the event after it happens here.
6. There’s a report that Elon Musk is refusing to pay some bills, with several reports saying Twitter is ditching its Google Cloud bills, in a deal that was struck before Musk took over. Twitter is using some of Google’s anti-spam technologies and cloud services. Elon is also reportedly refusing to pay some Amazon Cloud bills as well, and in reported retaliation, Amazon is refusing to pay for its advertising bill on Twitter.
Elon has made cuts totalling seemingly billions of dollars and 3/4 of the workforce, we with his $44 billion purchase he needed to do, and Elon is presumably trying to force the renegotiation of contracts his predecessors signed up to in an attempt to get a better deal, and being the creative genius type of guy you don’t want to be messing with.
