It is one of the world's most popular messaging apps, used by more than two billion people around the globe. But within days, WhatsApp will stop working on three popular phones that are used by millions. From May 5, anyone still using a trio of Apple devices will no longer be able to send or receive messages on the app. After this date, only devices running the iOS 15.1 operating system or newer will be supported. The affected devices are the iPhone 5s, the iPhone 6, and the iPhone 6 Plus.

The need for improved network situational awareness has been highlighted by the growing complexity and severity of cyber-attacks. Mobile phones pose a significant risk to network situational awareness due to their dynamic behaviour and lack of visibility on a network. Machine learning techniques enhance situational awareness by providing administrators insight into the devices and activities which form their network. Developing machine learning techniques for situational awareness requires a testbed to generate and label network traffic. Current testbeds, however, are unable to automate the generation and labelling of realistic network traffic. To address this, we describe a testbed which automates applications on mobile devices to generate and label realistic traffic. From this testbed, two labelled datasets of network traffic have been created. We provide an analysis of the testbed automation reliability and benchmark the datasets for the task of application classification.

It was a week of near misses and closer hits than the tech industry probably would have wanted. Amazon's Alexa "accidentally" recorded more than a few customers' private conversations, Apple's iPhones turned out to be bendier than anticipated, and that PUBG chicken dinner of yours wound up being harder fought than anybody had previously thought. Nobody: The number of people who saw that coming. Kidding, of course, even the greenest of horned labor attorney could tell you that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was simultaneously talking out of his tailpipe and putting his entire automotive empire in legal jeopardy when he started running his mouth on Twitter the other night. This is why you don't let the guy who owns the business do the ads for said business.

Apple's got a new robot. You can't buy this'bot, though -- it's only for Apple's use. The robot, named Daisy, takes apart old iPhones so that the valuable materials in the devices, like gold, can be extracted. It's an improved version of "Liam," the recycling robot that Apple revealed in 2016 to take apart iPhone 6 phones. Daisy can disassemble 200 iPhones an hour, Apple said in a press release on Thursday extolling the virtues of its latest droid. And Daisy can take apart nine different versions of the iPhone, a step up from Liam's limited capabilities that only allowed it to dismantle the iPhone 6.

Bob, CFO of ABC Inc is about to get on an earnings call after just reporting a 20% miss on earnings due to slower revenue growth than forecasted. Company ABC's stock price is plummeting, down 25% in extended hour trading. The board is furious and investors demand answers on the discrepancies. Inaccurate revenue forecast remains one of the biggest risks for CFOs. In a recent study, more than 50% of companies feel their pipeline forecast is only about 50% accurate.

Apple's mighty iPhone had a chunk bitten out of its reputation, after losing in a computer power test to a £12.99 ($18) IT education aid. In a David versus Goliath battle, the BBC's Micro:bit beat the Siri-enabled smartphone in a race between eight computers from the last 75 years. Each device was given 15 seconds to generate as many numbers as possible from the Fibonacci sequence, where each number is the sum of the previous two. The low-spec teaching tool, given to schoolchildren for free, came out on top while the iPhone languished second to last. Apple's mighty iPhone had a chunk bitten out of its reputation, after losing in a computer power test to a £12.99 ($18) IT education aid.

The full release notes of iOS 11.3 beta 2 have been released days after the new pre-release update was rolled out to developers and public beta testers. Developers found out that the upcoming iOS 11.3 software update could cause iPhone X's Face ID to not work if the smartphone is stuck with an older version of iTunes. According to the release notes shared by an Apple developer on MacRumors forums, iOS 11.3 beta 2 requires iPhone X to update to iTunes 12.7.3. Failure to do so will cause certain features of the 10th anniversary iPhone, including its new biometric system, to not work properly when owners use iTunes to purchase music and videos. The Cupertino giant launched iTunes 12.7.3

Inertial sensors play a pivotal role in indoor localization, which in turn lays the foundation for pervasive personal applications. However, low-cost inertial sensors, as commonly found in smartphones, are plagued by bias and noise, which leads to unbounded growth in error when accelerations are double integrated to obtain displacement. Small errors in state estimation propagate to make odometry virtually unusable in a matter of seconds. We propose to break the cycle of continuous integration, and instead segment inertial data into independent windows. The challenge becomes estimating the latent states of each window, such as velocity and orientation, as these are not directly observable from sensor data. We demonstrate how to formulate this as an optimization problem, and show how deep recurrent neural networks can yield highly accurate trajectories, outperforming state-of-the-art shallow techniques, on a wide range of tests and attachments. In particular, we demonstrate that IONet can generalize to estimate odometry for non-periodic motion, such as a shopping trolley or baby-stroller, an extremely challenging task for existing techniques.

Wall Street analysts say the iPhone X will push a large number of consumers to upgrade their devices, but KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the "super cycle" will happen until 2018, according to an investor's note obtained by MacRumors. Apple will release the iPhone X in November, but Kuo says "the real super cycle" won't occur until next year. A supercycle is described as a high demand in upgrading to a new phone. Wall Street analysts believe many people who bought the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus three years ago will want to get a brand new device this year. Apple has been reportedly struggling with the iPhone X's main feature, the Face ID.

Only a handful of people waited outside Apple's flagship London store for the iPhone 8 this morning - a far cry from the snaking queues of previous years. Queues were smaller than usual because of the anticipation surrounding the ultra premium iPhone X, which offers a radical redesign, new screen and advanced camera features. That is released in November. The special edition iPhone X features Apple's first ever edge-to-edge screen and facial recognition technology. This can be used to unlock the phone and make payments via Apple Pay, as well control new animated emoji - named Animoji - using their facial expressions.