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Indie App Spotlight features Hoardware, a free iOS 17‑plus app that lets users catalog every Apple device they own. The tool records model numbers, serial numbers, iOS versions and custom notes, and presents a coverage tab showing how many devices run each OS release. Users can add new hardware from a searchable list, with details and images auto‑filled, mark favorites, and receive push alerts when software updates become available. Hoardware syncs libraries via iCloud, ensuring the collection [...]

The fifth Africa E‑Mobility Week & Forum took place in late October at Nooitgedacht Estate in Stellenbosch, marking the event’s first Southern African venue after previous editions in Kenya and Ethiopia. Organized by AfEMA, UNEP, the African Union Commission and UNECA, the forum attracted 320 participants from 42 nations. Over its five‑year run, the gathering has tracked the continent’s shift from early‑stage electric‑motorcycle pilots to broader electrification, including buses and heavy‑duty trucks. Notable milestones include Spiro’s deployment [...]

Apple Store staff have been instructed to tell customers that the iPhone Duo will likely be unavailable for walk‑in purchase on its October 24 launch day unless a pre‑order has already been placed. Employees report that the company’s internal guidance warns shoppers to avoid the store expecting to buy the device, as many locations may have no additional inventory beyond pre‑ordered units. Apple’s website merely invites users to “check back” for availability, offering no guarantee of stock. The [...]

Meta has revised its commercial terms of use, initially stating that it could “use any content from a business account’s domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” its products and services. Legal analysts described the clause as a sweeping right to scrape publisher sites and feed the material into Meta’s artificial‑intelligence training pipelines. The language sparked concern after the company’s recent victory in a copyright lawsuit and amid [...]

Kipu Quantum has partnered with NTT DATA to scale enterprise quantum computing, industrial optimization, and quantum machine learning (QML) solutions. The deal will embed Kipu’s hardware‑tailored hybrid quantum algorithms into existing enterprise technology stacks, with NTT DATA distributing the Kipu Quantum Hub and delivering Kipu’s training curriculum worldwide. The collaboration builds on a successful deployment with Komatsu Peru, where Kipu’s QML algorithms improved predictive maintenance for heavy equipment. Initial commercial applications will target supply‑chain logistics, predictive maintenance, and financial [...]

Mosyle’s Apple Unified Platform enables IT teams to prepare for macOS 27’s removal of Rosetta, which will affect legacy Intel‑only software. Bradley Chambers, an experienced Apple IT admin, outlines a short‑term fix: a Mosyle script that reinstalls Rosetta on devices joining a macOS 27 Dynamic Device Group. He stresses the urgency of auditing fleets, as vendors still lacking Apple Silicon‑native builds risk silent failures. Mosyle’s solution is positioned as a quick, automated workaround while awaiting native releases. [...]

Apple’s upcoming iPhone Duo will launch next week, and preorders for its official accessories have begun. The $79 silicone case requires users to apply adhesive to secure it to the foldable phone, a departure from the magnetic attachment used on other models. Apple also offers a $129 folio case with a kickstand. The adhesive requirement may limit case swapping and affect long‑term adhesion. Third‑party options like Spigen and ESR are available for those who prefer alternatives.

Kipu Quantum reported experimental results using QuEra Computing’s 256‑qubit Aquila neutral‑atom processor to perform analog quantum feature extraction for molecular toxicity classification. The team arranged 200 neutral atoms in a 14 × 15 grid and applied smooth driving pulses for under 4 µs, generating roughly 1,000 quantum features per molecule from 500 readout shots. These features were tested on the UCI Molecular Toxicity dataset across 100 random splits with classical models such as XGBoost, CatBoost, Random Forest, SVM and Google’s [...]