When Xiaoyin Qu was growing up in China, she was obsessed with learning how to build paper airplanes that could do flips in the air. Her parents, though, didn’t have the aerodynamic expertise to support her newfound passion, and her teac…
The best laptops and laptop brands are all-in on AI. Even compared to a year ago, the list of the best laptops has been infested with NPUs and a new era of processors, all of which promise to integrate AI into every aspect of our day-to-da…
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has announced that Snapdragon X chips will expand to PCs with price tags as low as $700 next year, as reported by The Verge. This would mean an almost $300 price drop since the current cheapest Snapdragon X PCs …
The Threads app has passed the 200 million user mark, according to Meta exec Adam Mosseri. The milestone comes one day after Mark Zuckerberg said that the service was “about” to hit 200 million users during the company’s latest earnings …
X (formerly Twitter) can no longer be accessed in the Mac App Store, suggesting that it has been officially delisted.
Searches for both “Twitter” and “X” on Apple’s platform no longer surface the app. The URL no longer works, either.…
Recent malware attacks have become more advanced, and the advice to keep your device safe is no longer as easy as "Don't click on any random links sent to you." Threat actors are seeking victims out with more concealed measures, like this …
Turkey blocked access to social media platform Instagram on Friday for failing to comply with the country's "laws and rules", a government minister said.
The move came after a senior Turkish official accused the platform of blocking con…
Google is adding support for its School time feature to more hardware. School time allows parents to limit functionalities on a child's devices during predetermined hours. That might be the time they are in classes or for any period wher…
WhatsApp’s massive 500 million users in India have supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions.
Meta CFO Susan Li said Wednesday that India is the largest market in terms of Meta AI usage, a notable milestone considering the product launched i…
The tandem OLED technology used in the 2024 iPad Pro models could be used in a future Vision Pro. LG and Samsung have prototyped micro versions of the tandem displays, essentially shrinking them down for use in headsets such as the Vision …
Japanese automakers Nissan Motor and Honda Motor have agreed to conduct joint research into technologies for a next-generation software platform, they said in a joint statement on Thursday.
The companies also signed a memorandum of unde…
Meta has scrapped its celebrity AI assistants after less than a year.
The company is shifting focus to its new AI Studio, which lets users create their own AI bots.
Tech companies have had difficulty translating the A…
Google has rolled out updates for Search with the intention of making explicit deepfakes as hard to find as possible. As part of its long-standing and ongoing fight against realistic-looking manipulated images, the company is making it e…
The Google Pixel Watch 3’s specification is gradually being leaked. Further information about Google’s next smartwatch has now emerged, this time giving us some insight into the screen, charging, and software updates we should expect. The …
Cybersecurity firm Tenable Holdings is exploring options, including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Shares of the Columbia, Maryland-based c…
E-books rule. As far back as PalmPilot PDA days, I've loved having novels in my pocket for anytime, anywhere reading. Now my phone affords me that privilege, but it's not my preferred e-reading device. The screen is narrow and, at night,…
Nothing just announced a relatively surprising hardware update for its Phone 2a smartphone. The Phone 2a Plus is a modest upgrade, but still significant, being as how the original 2a was just released back in March.
Most notably, the 2a…
Tesla has issued a recall on 1.8 million vehicles across the United States, Reuters reports, a sizeable number even for a company that is no stranger to this turn of events. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) anno…
According to posts from the ThinkPad Weibo account, Lenovo claims its new ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop can pull off 29 hours of local video playback. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip, and we’ve seen plenty of extraordinar…
Users who have signed up for iOS 18’s developer beta can now get the first taste of Apple Intelligence as the company has released some features of its AI suite via an update released on Monday.
The company revealed Apple Intelligence a…
The biggest free ad-supported streaming service is now available on Apple Vision Pro. Tubi — the Fox-owned service that has more than 250,000 movies and TV episodes, and more than 250 live channels — can now be loaded onto Apple’s VR platf…
Some tech leaders are advocating for universal basic income to counteract AI-driven job automation.
High-profile Silicon Valley figures such as Elon Musk and Sam Altman have long supported the idea.
Experts say UBI an…
The next time you DM a creator on Instagram, you might get a reply from their AI. Meta is starting to roll out its AI Studio, a set of tools that will allow Instagram creators to make an AI persona that can answer questions and chat with…
There are so many songs and trends floating around on TikTok that it can be hard to keep track of them. If you're open to singing — or at least humming — a little tune, that might change. TikTok has started rolling out a new feature call…
The California Department of Motor Vehicles this week granted Nuro approval to test its third-generation R3 autonomous delivery vehicle in four Bay Area cities, giving the AV startup a positive boost after facing some setbacks and financia…
Shipments of foreign-branded phones including Apple's iPhone within China rose 10.9% in June year-on-year to 2.87 million handsets, a smaller gain than in previous months, data from a government-affiliated research firm showed on Monday.
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Apple is reportedly rolling out its new AI features, Apple Intelligence, later than expected.
The delay aims to fix bugs and ensure the stability of Apple's AI features, Bloomberg reported.
Prioritizing stability and …
I’m still chugging along on an iPhone 12 Pro, which means I don’t get much hands-on time with the Dynamic Island on a day-to-day basis. Or at least I didn’t, that is, until I discovered a little app called NotchNook. But instead of bring…
Voice recognition is getting integrated in nearly all facets of modern living, but there remains a big gap: Speakers of minority languages and those with thick accents or speech disorders like stuttering are typically less able to use sp…
The Floorr launched earlier this year to shake up the digital styling experience by empowering personal shoppers and stylists to manage and expand their businesses in an increasingly competitive environment. Available on the web and iO…
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Zach Nelson of JerryRigEverything put the Galaxy Z Flip 6 through rigorous durability tests.
Like the Galaxy Z Flip 5 last year, the Z Flip 6 managed to withstand several tests to its glass and i…
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Google has started rolling out a change to its visual search history UI for Lens on the "My Activity" page.
While the list of past visual searches remains, a dedicated "Lens history" page display…
Though Samsung is the brand that is best known for foldables in the U.S., that’s changed in recent years, with Google and other brands joining the fray. The Google Pixel Fold was Google’s first foldable, and it had a relatively strong star…
Substack is rolling out the ability for writers to draft and publish new posts directly from their phone via its iOS app, the company announced on Thursday. Until now, users have only been read content through the app. With this update, …
Japan's Toyota Motor plans to build a battery plant for electric vehicles in the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka and supply its batteries to a factory that makes luxury Lexus brand cars, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday.
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Apple's well-specked 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro chip, 18GB of memory and 512GB of storage is on sale for the lowest price we've seen yet at Amazon. You can pick one up for $1,699, a savings of $300 (15 percent) and the lowest price…
Apple has reduced the prices of its pro iPhone models in India by 3% to 4% after the country’s government slashed import duties on imported smartphones to 15% from 20%. Apple’s price cuts range from ?300 (about $3.6) for the made-in-In…
In its bid to maintain pace with generative AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI, Google is rolling out updates to the no-fee tier of Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot. The updates are focused on making the platform more performant — and mor…
I rarely used WhatsApp before moving from the United States to the United Kingdom a couple of years ago, opting for the built-in messaging app on my iPhone or fellow Meta-owned platform Messenger. No one I knew in the US used it, and, in…
OpenAI on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search engine prototype called SearchGPT. The move marks the company’s entry into a competitive search engine market dominated by Google for decades. On its website, OpenAI described SearchGP…
Apple announced on Wednesday that Apple Maps is now available on the web via a public beta, which means you can now access the service directly from your browser. The launch puts Apple Maps in direct competition with Google Maps, which h…
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The latest leak shows off Google's next buds in a Spigen ad for a supported case.
The Pixel Buds Pro 2 appears slightly larger than the original edition, with a color change to its grills while t…
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they receive…
Meta has taken down tens of thousands of Instagram accounts from Nigeria as part of a massive crackdown on sextortion scams. The accounts primarily targeted adult men in the United States, but some also targeted minors, Meta said in an u…
Google just announced a suite of updates to the Play Store in an attempt to make it more fun to use. This is part of a larger move by the company to turn its online marketplace into "an end-to-end experience that’s more than a store.” Yo…
Meta AI, Meta’s AI-powered assistant across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and the web, can now speak in more languages and create stylized selfies. And, starting today, Meta AI users can route questions to Meta’s newest flagship AI mode…
Elon Musk says he will show off Tesla’s purpose-built “robotaxi” prototype during an event October 10, after scrapping a previous plan to reveal it August 8. Musk said Tesla will also show off “a couple of other things,” but didn’t exp…
Comcast missed estimates for second-quarter revenue on Tuesday as the U.S. telecom and media firm had fewer movie releases during the period, while attendance at its theme parks stayed low, sending its shares down 5%.
The company had li…
Facebook parent company Meta announced the release of its Llama 3.1 open source large language model on Tuesday. The new LLM will be available in three sizes — 8B, 70B, and 405B parameters — the latter being the largest open-source AI buil…
Meta just announced a huge update to its AI and it’s coming soon to the Meta Quest platform, home to some of the best VR headsets you can buy. In the next few weeks, you’ll soon have access to a smart voice assistant anytime you wear your …
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