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Instagram is a visual social media platform, the iPad has best screen for photos, yet it's taken the rollercoaster situation with TikTok for the Meta-owned company to start work on an iPadOS app.

Tesla has a lot riding on the swift success of its so-called Full Self-Driving software.

The phones were manufactured in India and rushed out of the country to beat expected tariffs

A new HDMI spec is coming, but don’t worry about replacing your home theater.

I don’t envy AI investors right now. The price of AI startup shares (unlike the value of my stock portfolio) seem to be only going up, which means it’s riskier to make new bets.And the way startups are disclosing financial metrics to investors seems to be getting more muddied. Take annual ...

Students must put them in a locker or sealed pouch at the start of the day.

Donald Trump signed an order Wednesday that targets Christopher Krebs, a critic of the president and the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the first Trump administration. In the Wednesday order, Trump took aim at Krebs for disputing Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was “stolen.” The president ordered an investigation into Krebs’

Meta is partnering with Blumhouse to launch "Movie Mate" technology that encourages moviegoers to use their phones during theatrical screenings, beginning with an April 30 showing of "Megan" at Blumhouse's "Halfway to Halloween Film Festival." According to Variety, the system enables viewers to chat...

Last June, at Apple’s annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence could supercharge Siri, the iPhone’s virtual assistant. But behind the scenes and in the months that followed, the Siri team couldn’t make up its mind about the basic ...

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives called the tariffs the worst U.S. policy mistake since Smoot-Hawley

In Bracket City, players solve nested layers of clues to uncover a fact about the given day in history. Each solved bracket reveals a part of the next, creating a chain reaction that eventually resolves the whole puzzle into a single sentence. [Work performed in a theater] [neither __ nor there]: https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

A new leak reveals that the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max could be getting an exclusive Camera app feature as part of iOS 19.

Meta Platforms on Saturday released two versions of Llama 4, the newest generation of its flagship open-source large language model, called Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. The release came a day after we reported that Meta had hit some snags with the new model, which had delayed its release ...

CalDigit has updated its desktop docks with Thunderbolt 5 connectivity and boosted the number of ports to 20.

The European Union may finally decide whether Apple's App Store has breached the continent's Digital Markets Act rules, with the antitrust chief confirming a ruling could arrive within a few weeks.

Meta released Llama 4, but the announcement was eclipsed by benchmark drama.

While the chaos of tariffs will make things unpredictable for some time, the latest analyst guess-work about what an iPhone 16 Pro Max could cost comes in with a much smaller increase in price than previously estimated.

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Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI.”

Google's AI division, DeepMind, has reportedly resorted to using 'aggressive' noncompete agreements for some AI staff in the U.K.

“We would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss.”…

In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.

The Telegraph and nine other media organisations have successfully challenged an attempt by Yvette Cooper to keep details of her legal battle with Apple a...

IRS worker: “an open door controlled by Musk for all Americans’ most sensitive information.”…

Sam Altman's OpenAI has discussed acquiring Altman and Jony Ive's startup firm that is designing at least one household AI device.

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company has deliberately chosen to build AI models "three or six months behind" cutting-edge developments, citing cost savings and more focused implementation. "It's cheaper to give a specific answer once you've waited for the first three or six months ...

A court has blocked a British government attempt to keep secret a legal case over its demand to access Apple user data in a victory for privacy advocates. From a report: The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal, a special court that handles cases related to government surveillance, said the authorities'...

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives warned that Apple faces particular peril from Trump’s growing trade war

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