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Security company Corellium has announced that it has successfully ported Ubuntu to Apple Mac devices containing Apple’s M1 processor. This is a native port with the Ubuntu operating system running directly on the M1 processor, and does not involve any virtualization or emulation layers. Installation of Ubuntu onto Apple Silicon Mac devices is a multistep…

Raspberry Pi has just launched the new Pico microcontroller board. The board includes 264KB of on-chip SRAM, 2MB of on-board QSPI flash and a single USB 1.1 controller and port. The board also supports the addition of 16MB of off-chip flash memory. I/O options include I2C, SPI and PIO. Two features of the Raspberry Pi…

As of Android API 30 (otherwise known as Android 11) the IntentService class has been deprecated. Provided since Android API 3, the purpose of IntentService was to allow asynchronous tasks to be performed without blocking the main thread. The deprecation is one of a number of steps introduced starting with Android 8.0 (API 26) to…

Google has now released Android Studio 4.2 Beta 3 for early access testing and is available via the Beta channel. If your copy of Android Studio is already subscribed to the Beta channel, it can be downloaded using the Help > Check for Updates (Android Studio > Check for Updates) menu option. Rather than introducing any…

Red Hat has announced that the end of life date for CentOS 8 will be brought forward to December 31, 2021 after which there will be no further updates. They have also announced that when RHEL 9 ships, there will be no CentOS 9 equivalent. In place of the “version” based releases, users will need…

If you are writing multi-threaded asynchronous code using Android Studio you can’t help but have noticed that any reference to AsyncTask appears with a strikethrough. This, as we all know, is the dreaded sign that a feature of the Android SDK on which we have relied for years (in the case of AsyncTask it has…

Google has announced that it is changing the version numbering system for Android Studio with the change taking effect after the release of Android Studio 4.2. This means that instead of calling it Android Studio 4.3, it will be called Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1). This new system includes a code name representing a major…

Google has now released Android Studio 4.2 Beta 2 for early access testing and is available via the Beta channel. If your copy of Android Studio is already subscribed to the Beta channel, it can be downloaded using the Help > Check for Updates (Android Studio > Check for Updates) menu option. If you want to…

After coming under pressure for taking a 30% commission on all App Store sales, Apple has now announced the App Store Small Business Program. Businesses that qualify for the program will see commissions dropped to 15%. To qualify for this program, your business must have earned less than $1 million for all apps during 2020.…

If you’ve been waiting for Apple fix the bug in the SwiftUI ProgressView that causes a circular view to appear using the indeterminate UI then you are out of luck. Having downloaded and tested iOS 14 with Xcode 12.3 it seems pretty clear to us that the bug is still there. We tried the following…