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Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them.

Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies will be gone in Chrome forever—sort of.Read more…

iPhone 16 Pro’s Ultra Wide Camera Rumored to Receive Major Upgrade

The iPhone 16 Pro models will be the first to feature more than one 48-megapixel sensor, leaving the Telephoto camera as the only rear-facing lens with a 12-megapixel resolution, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports. Writing on Medium, Kuo explained that the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌’s Ultra Wide camera will feature a 48-megapixel sensor. The upgrade should allow the camera to capture more light, resulting in enhanced photos when shooting in 0.5× mode, especially in low-light environments. The iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 15, and iPhone 15 Pro models already have a 48-megapixel Main camera that uses “pixel binning” to merge data from four pixels on the sensor into one “super pixel” for improved low-light capture. With the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ models, this technology is expected to expand to the Ultra Wide lens, which is currently a 12-megapixel lens. This also means that ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ models should be able to shoot 48-megapixel ProRAW photos in Ultra Wide mode. These photos retain more detail in the image file for more editing flexibility, and can be printed at large sizes. Last year, International Securities analyst Jeff Pu claimed that the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ will feature a 48-megapixel Ultra Wide camera. Just a few months later, further details about Apple’s plan for the Ultra Wide camera upgrade emerged on Chinese social media site Weibo. With Kuo now throwing his weight behind the rumor, the upgrade seems highly likely. In 2025, the iPhone 17 Pro is expected to complete the rear camera array’s transition to 48-megapixel sensors, bringing the technology to the Telephoto lens. Kuo added that the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ is on-track to feature the tetraprism Telephoto camera introduced on the ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ Max. Kuo also said that the ‌iPhone‌ 17 lineup will feature an upgraded front-camera camera unit with a 24-megapixel sensor and a six-element lens.Related Roundup: iPhone 16 ProTag: Ming-Chi KuoThis article, “iPhone 16 Pro’s Ultra Wide Camera Rumored to Receive Major Upgrade” first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums

iPhone 17’s front camera will be upgraded to 24MP, says Kuo

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims Apple will upgrade the iPhone 17’s front-facing selfie camera from 12MP/5P to 24M/6P for 2025, and is also planning improvements for the iPhone 16 cameras.Apple’s iPhonePrevious rumors concerning the iPhone 17 range have concerned how the Pro models may be Apple’s first to use 2 nanometer processors, and still may not get Apple’s own 5G modem. As with every new iPhone generation, though, there are doubtlessly going to be camera improvements, and Ming-Chi Kuo believes he knows what the first of these will be.”The front camera of the iPhone 17 will be upgraded to 24MP/6P lens (vs. the 12MP/5P lens of iPhone 15 & 16), which will significantly improve the image quality,” he writes in a blog post centered on lens manufacturer Genius. “Genius is the primary lens supplier for iPhone front cameras.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums