MacWhisper: Local audio transcription distinguishes spokesman

MacWhisper: Local audio transcription distinguishes spokesman

Software for transcribing discussions, video calls and interviews has progressed significantly in recent years. An innovation is that this is also possible locally on the computer – thanks to Openai thanks to the source -open models. The most popular software on the Mac is called MacWhisper And comes from the Dutch developer Jordi Bruin. He … Read more

Reboot is good: Why the iPhone automatically restarted for safety reasons

Reboot is good: Why the iPhone automatically restarted for safety reasons

Only when the user enters his PIN or the device code does the iPhone load the required encryption keys into the memory. As a result, it changes to the AFU state (“After First Unlock”), in which more data are deciphered-even if the device is then blocked again. That was the reading sample of our Heise … Read more

Pebble founder: Interaction with iPhones worse-because of Apple

Pebble founder: Interaction with iPhones worse-because of Apple

The Smartwatch pioneer Pebble encounters well-known problems in interaction with iPhones when it comes to new start. Already at the first generation of Pebble he learned how much more difficult it is to offer a “great smartwatch experience” on iOS, Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky said-and in the past eight years it was even worse. Pebble … Read more

Swift Assist: Apple's AI tool for programming is still missing today

Swift Assist: Apple's AI tool for programming is still missing today

Compared to voice assistant Siri, it is a niche, but Apple is still owed to another large AI tool of his announcements in June 2024. The developer tool Swift Assist should make it easy to develop 16 prototypes of apps in the XCode programming environment and to experiment with the latest software development kits from … Read more

Pixel 9a: Google's answer to the Apple iPhone 16E

Pixel 9a: Google's answer to the Apple iPhone 16E

Google's alternative to the Apple iPhone 16E is called Pixel 9a. With the new A-Class, Google follows the proven concept of mid-range pixels, but goes other ways in the design. Visually, the Pixel 9a has little to do with the other current pixels. The camera battery on the back has been an elementary design element … Read more

In the EU: Apple has to open further functions with iOS 19 and iOS 20

Smartwatches, GPS watches, headphones and mixed reality headsets: Such hardware will have to support iPhones better in the future, even if there is no Apple logo on these devices. Apple has to create specific interfaces in iOS 19 and iOS 20 according to new requirements of the EU Commission. Functions that have been reserved for … Read more

Apple password app: Problematic bug is said to have passed months

Apple password app: Problematic bug is said to have passed months

Apple has resolved a security gap with the iOS 18.2 published in December. The security researcher Tommy Mysk has now published details. Accordingly, it was at least theoretically possible for several months Certain types of phhing attacks to drive to users in the same network. The reason: Apple simply does not encrypted different queries of … Read more