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Based on more than 200 interviews with former Apple execs and engineers, Patrick McGee’s Apple in China – The Capture...

Spotify announced earlier this month that it would publicly display how many plays podcasts had. Podcasters were not happy — now Spotify is reversing course.

We mentioned recently that the only remaining Democratic commissioner at the FCC (and the only remaining Dem commissioner across both the FCC and FTC since Trump illegally fired the Democratic FTC …

Here’s how xAI tells Grok to behave.

Microsoft’s latest ad pits its top Copilot + PCs against Apple’s budget M3 MacBook Air model from over a year ago.

Apple has introduced a new transfer tool for those wanting to switch to Apple Music without rebuilding their libraries from scratch.

Epic Games claims that Apple is blocking its Fortnite app from the U.S. and E.U. App Stores. After winning a decisive victory for app developers in a

Will HBO Max be the one to watch?

NASA engineers have successfully revived a set of thrusters aboard Voyager 1 that had been considered inoperable since 2004, completing this remarkable feat...

He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned him a shout-out from Richard Nixon.

The merger will need to pass antitrust enforcement.

Montana has enacted SB 282, becoming the first state to prohibit law enforcement from purchasing personal data they would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. The landmark legislation closes what privacy advocates call the "data broker loophole," which previously allowed police to buy geolocation dat...

Fortnite’s new Star Wars event features an AI-recreation of James Earl Jones’ voice

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Creator platform Patreon has to modify its app to comply with Apple's guidelines after a recent update allowed U.S. users to make purchases via the web.

OpenAI has launched an AI agent in ChatGPT, Codex, that can handle multiple software engineering tasks on behalf of users simultaneously.

Following a push from Senator Elizabeth Warren, the US Army has announced that it will adopt right-to-repair provisions in new and existing contracts.

Odds are, if you have ridden a bicycle for any amount of time, you have crashed. Crashes are fast, violent and chaotic events that leave you confused, and very glad to have a helmet. But what if th…

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Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.

Beginning Wednesday, shipments arriving in the United States from China and Hong Kong worth less than $800 could face 54 percent tariffs.

The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.

One prominent tech journalist called Mark Zuckerberg a “small little creature with a shriveled soul.”

The US is lifting export limits on US-made AI chips and cracking down on countries that use Huawei’s alternatives, helping Nvidia to fend off competition.

Bloomberg last month suggested that Apple is working on a 20th anniversary iPhone, which might represent the culmination of the...

The USPS offered to print your email for you. Only spammers said yes.

I never thought I’d see the day where computer map data would be part of a feature film promotional push, but here we are: Apple’s big-budget Brad Pitt film “F1 The Movie” h…

Montana just passed a new bill backed by longevity enthusiasts that will enable access to drugs and therapies that are not approved by the FDA.

Industrial Light & Magic revealed a short film showcasing how it wants to use generative AI for Star Wars and it’s completely embarrassing.