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  • Sony Sells 18.5 Million PS5 Items in FY 2024, Analysts Say GTA 6 Delay to Impression Gross sales in 2025

    Sony Group provided an underwhelming forecast for the yr forward, with the burden of US tariffs wiping out expectations for a rise in working revenue. 

    The entertainment-focused group mentioned on Wednesday that it sees a JPY 100 billion ($700 million or roughly Rs. 5,975 crore) impression from US levies within the yr to March and expects an working revenue of ¥1.28 trillion (roughly Rs. 74,353 crore). Even with out the tariffs, Sony’s projection falls shy of the common analyst estimate of ¥1.5 trillion (roughly Rs. 87,126 crore) and is actually flat in comparison with the yr concluded in March 2025.

    The brand new outlook got here alongside the announcement of a share buyback of as a lot as ¥250 billion (roughly Rs. 14,521 crore) and the timeline for a partial spinoff of Sony’s monetary unit. Sony mentioned it plans to listing the monetary operation on September 29 and can begin to deal with it as a discontinued enterprise in its accounting from the present quarter.

    Shares of Sony prolonged their positive factors, rising as a lot as 4.5 % after the report. Buybacks are hovering in Japan as firms which have been hoarding money for years come underneath rising strain to elevate capital effectivity and increase shareholder returns. 

    Over the primary three months of this yr, Sony reported better-than-expected working earnings of JPY 203.7 billion (roughly Rs. 11,836 crore). The corporate offered 18.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles within the yr to March, following 20.8 million within the yr earlier.

    Sony’s new Chief Govt Officer Hiroki Totoki’s first activity is to navigate the leisure group although a brand new period of a tariffs-wielding US. The US includes the majority of PlayStation 5 gross sales, which is usually produced in . Sony raised the console’s worth in Europe, Australia and New Zealand final month, leaving questions on potential worth hikes within the US ought to tariffs change into a relentless.

    Increased costs would sluggish momentum of the five-year-old {hardware}, particularly because it vies with rival Nintendo’s Change 2, which launches in June. The postponement of Rockstar Video games’s much-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI can also be weighing on PlayStation gross sales within the present fiscal yr.

    “The delay in GTA VI is an actual blow to the PS5,” mentioned David Cole, chief govt officer of US-based digital leisure analysis agency DFC Intelligence. “This was alleged to be the product that received many customers to get off the PS4 and on to a PS5.”

    Sony’s different operations are additionally underneath siege. The outlook for picture sensors, utilized in smartphones by everybody from Apple to Xiaomi, is  murky, with tariffs hitting handsets within the US. And President Donald Trump has prompt tariffs can also be positioned on films made exterior the US, simply as Sony is selling Japanese animated movies such because the Demon Slayer collection abroad.

    © 2025 Bloomberg LP

    (This story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

  • iOS 18.5 Replace Rolls Out With Updates to Mail App, Pleasure Concord Wallpaper

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    Apple on Monday launched the iOS 18.5 replace for eligible iPhone fashions. Constructing upon the developer and public beta updates rolled out in latest weeks, it brings refined adjustments to the Mail app, together with an choice to show Contact Photographs by way of a fast shortcut. Guardians or dad and mom will obtain a notification when the passcode for the Display Time is used on a baby’s Apple gadget. iOS 18.5 introduces a brand new Pleasure Concord wallpaper, in addition to assist for carrier-provided satellite tv for pc options throughout the complete iPhone 13 vary.

    iOS 18.5 Replace for iPhone: What’s New

    Apple’s launch notes say iPhone customers can toggle Contact Photographs immediately from the Mail app’s interface by tapping the three-dot choice within the top-right nook of the display, following the iOS 18.5 replace. It additionally permits for turning off the Group by Sender setting within the app. Accessing the All Mail view has additionally been made simpler with a slight change to the app categorisation. It’s now listed alongside the present Major, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions choices.

    With iOS 18.5, the iPhone will get a brand new Pleasure Concord wallpaper with colors which have the power to alter place if the gadget is moved, locked, or unlocked. It matches the brand new Pleasure Concord face for Apple Watch, which has additionally been added with the newest watchOS 10.5 replace.

    The replace improves upon youngsters supervision capabilities by sending a notification to the guardian or mother or father when the Display Time passcode is used on a tool dealt with by a baby. Moreover, a brand new Purchase with iPhone choice has been made out there when buying content material inside the Apple TV app on a 3rd celebration gadget.

    One other notable change is the addition of carrier-provided satellite tv for pc options, which are actually out there throughout the complete iPhone 13 vary. Apple says it helps you keep linked by way of your iPhone in areas the place there isn’t any mobile or Wi-Fi protection. A number of carriers solid partnerships with satellite tv for pc suppliers like Starlink to bolster their mobile community. When this characteristic is lively, a SAT icon is displayed within the iPhone’s standing bar.

    Along with new options, iOS 18.5 additionally brings fixes for a number of bugs and safety vulnerabilities. On the iPhone 16e, there is a repair for a Baseband subject in Apple’s proprietary C1 modem, which can have precipitated an attacker in a privileged community place to intercept community site visitors. It was fastened via improved state administration.

    The corporate additionally improved dealing with of floats, checks, reminiscence dealing with, enter validation, and state dealing with to rectify a safety vulnerability which precipitated a malicious web site to exfiltrate knowledge cross-origin and sudden Safari crashes resulting from processing of maliciously crafted content material. 

    The replace additionally fixes points associated to Name Historical past, CoreBluetooth, CoreAudio, FaceTime, iCloud Doc Sharing, Kernel, Mail Addressing, Notes, and Safety.

    With WWDC 2025 on the horizon, the Cupertino-based tech large is prone to shift its focus from the present iOS 18 cycle to the upcoming iOS 19 and its tidbits.

  • iOS 18.5 Launch Candidate Rolls Out to Beta Testers With Satellite tv for pc Connectivity on iPhone 13

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    iOS 18.5 is predicted to roll out to customers within the coming days, and Apple started rolling out the iOS 18.5 launch candidate to beta testers earlier this week. When the replace rolls out to eligible iPhone fashions, clients will see a few notable modifications to the Apple TV app on third celebration units, and the Display screen Time function on iOS. In the meantime, Apple has additionally added help for satellite tv for pc options on the iPhone 13, through supported community suppliers.

    iOS 18.5 Launch Candidate New Options and Modifications

    Apple’s changelog for the iOS 18.5 launch candidate that rolled out to testers on Monday offers us an thought of what to anticipate from the upcoming iOS replace. The replace provides a helpful function to Screen Time that alerts a dad or mum at any time when the passcode that manages controls is entered on their kid’s system. This will hold dad and mom knowledgeable when their baby manages to guess the Display screen Time passcode to bypass parental controls.

    Satellite tv for pc connectivity can also be coming to a few of Apple’s older iPhone 13 collection of smartphones. Understand that that is carrier-based satellite tv for pc connectivity, which signifies that it isn’t the identical because the Globalstar-powered satellite tv for pc connectivity supplied on the iPhone 14 and newer fashions. For instance, T-Cell customers within the US can entry satellite tv for pc connectivity through Starlink Direct (SpaceX).

    The corporate can also be making it considerably simpler to make purchases on the Apple TV app when utilizing a 3rd celebration system. Customers can now select a brand new Purchase with iPhone possibility when buying content material and full the transaction utilizing their handset.

    iOS 18.4 introduced a brand new Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional app for patrons who bought the Imaginative and prescient Professional spatial laptop. The upcoming iOS 18.5 replace will resolve a bug that resulted in a black display being displayed when the app was getting used, in line with the corporate.

    Apple may even embrace a brand new Satisfaction Concord wallpaper with the upcoming replace to iOS 18.5, and it is part of the newest iOS 18.5 launch candidate. Customers can count on to see these function enhancements and new additions when the steady model is launched — this may very well be as early as subsequent week, if Apple does not roll out a second launch candidate.