Technology News: Apple Watch Found, Tech Leaders Denounce Trump Attack, Spotify Comments, Space Wishlist, Qualcomm Sues, iOS PC Games

A scuba diver lost an Apple Watch during a dive and marked it as lost in the Find My network. More than a year later, he received a voicemail from someone who found the watch close to the dive site. The surprising thing is that the Watch had turned on and was running with a message from Brick on the Find My network. This incident itself is an eye-opener only for weekends—the importance of 'Find My' being ON in your devices. Yes, this feature helps significantly in recovering lost items even after long periods and in challenged conditions.

When former president Trump set tech moguls Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai on fire, it was a blast. The aforementioned incident took place in the state of Pennsylvania during a rally. Mr. Trump has been shot in the right ear by a 20-year-old, but he is now out of danger. According to the FBI, the shooter was a man named Thomas Matthew Crooks, and the case is viewed as an attempted assassination. It also killed one person, leaving two others injured. The event has raised the political temperature and underlined the issue of the use of firearms in the U.S. President Biden opened an investigation into the security breach.

Spotify is bringing out a new comments feature for podcasts, enhancing creator-to-listener engagement. Interactively, creators pave the way to engage with their audience, manage which comments are shown, and turn comments on or off for episodes or shows. Done in more than a month, this update broadens Spotify's Q&A and polls functionality that it introduced in 2021. This is in addition to another update—for an enhanced Spotify for Podcasters app, now boasting better show management and real-time stats tracking. It's a feature that helps Spotify waltz its way closer to YouTube, where creators frequently engage with their fans via comments.

The Indian Space Association has made suggestions for the Union Budget 2024-25 to boost the finances and overall status of the space sector. Among the key ones are extending GST exemptions to launch vehicles and satellite components, providing a tax holiday, reducing tax rates on foreign borrowing and withholding tax for the satellite segment, and implementing a PLI scheme for space-grade components. IIspA also calls for governments to adopt space technology in governance and ensures reasonable Spectrum Usage Charges. These are the measures that would be taken to foster innovation, induce investment, and cement India's position as a global space power.

Qualcomm is suing Transsion Holdings over infringement of four non-standard essential patents in India. Transsion does not make use of Qualcomm chips in its devices. If Transsion, with brands like Tecno, Infinix, and iTel, had turned down Qualcomm's licensing offer, these actions are very similar to Qualcomm's past fights with other tech giants like Apple. One of the third parties in this case is Transsion, a company respecting the rights to intellectual property and open to negotiating an IP license agreement with Qualcomm, including a 5G standard patent license.

Apple has given the green light to 'UTM SE', the first PC emulator for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS; now, users can run classic software and games from Windows, Mac OS 9, and Linux on their devices. The app, which was rejected at first for notarization, is now available on Apple's platforms for free and will make its way to AltStore PAL soon. Constructed from QEMU, UTM SE is capable of running a mixed bag of architectures and provides both graphical and text-based emulation modes.