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iOS 16, codenamed “Sydney” and set to be previewed at WWDC in June, will feature “significant” improvements to notifications and new health-tracking features but will not a feature major redesign of iOS, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said today. In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman writes that he is not expecting a major redesign of iOS …

In the fight to stop COVID-19, contact tracing is considered a key tool to helping contain the spread. Contact tracing involves working backward to identify people who may have been in contact with a sick patient, then notifying those at risk of transmission so they can isolate and get tested. But can that painstaking process …

There are useful notifications—and then there are the notifications your web browser wants to send you. After years of invasive pop-ups, two of the world’s biggest browsers are finally clamping down on the annoyance of websites that want to ping you with updates. Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. By now you’ll …

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) In the early hours of Monday morning, some OnePlus 7 Pro owners may have taken a gander at their phones only to find some cryptic, indecipherable messages. A botched internal test resulted in two global push notifications, with one message reading “hahahahaha” in Chinese and the other a string of gibberish …