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ESPN and Fox are bundling their new streaming platforms despite their rivalry.

While he'd filled in for Steve Jobs before, August 24, 2011 was the day when Apple formally became Tim Cook's company, and since then he's built Apple from merely huge to a financial juggernaut.

Apple is weeks away from its big product launch event, where it will lay the foundation for a once-in-a-generation iPhone overhaul. Also: The company talks with Google about using Gemini to power Siri, and it raises the price of TV+. Lastly, Apple loses yet another AI executive to Meta.

Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 —  available on the open source platform Hugging Face.

Meta has signed a partnership with Midjourney, an AI service that can generate images and videos from text prompts.

Apple Inc. assembly partner Foxconn Technology Group has recalled about 300 Chinese engineers from a factory in India, the latest setback for the iPhone maker’s push to rapidly expand in the country.

Of the 80% of students using AI at Middlebury College who were surveyed, most of them use it for augmentation purposes.

NYC has granted Waymo permission to test a limited number of autonomous vehicles, as long as there's a driver behind the wheel.

Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman

Bring your ideas to life with Moises AI Studio. Generate stems, mix and master with one click, and explore genre-specific presets designed for real musicians.

Oura received a favorable initial determination from the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in our ongoing case with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).

The $8.9 billion investment gives the US government a roughly 10 percent equity stake in Intel.

Bluesky has blocked access to its service in Mississippi rather than comply with a new state law requiring age verification for all social media users. TechCrunch reports: In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the subst...

Google has released (PDF) a new analysis of its AI's environmental impact, showing that it has cut the energy use of AI text queries by a factor of 33 over the past year. Each prompt now consumes about 0.24 watt-hours -- the equivalent of watching nine seconds of TV. An anonymous reader shares an ex...

In a rare win for U.S. consumer privacy, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled unanimously against T-Mobile and its subsidiary Sprint, upholding (for now) a $92 mil…

The ex-developer was convicted of planting malicious code designed to crash its servers in the event that he was fired.

A recent auction turned Apple checks signed by Steve Jobs, sealed iPhones, and even rainbow sunglasses into prized collectibles worth tens of thousands. Here's what sold for big money.

The Trump administration will remove ocean and air pollution monitoring instruments from the upcoming fleet of weather satellites, and cut the number of satellites, as well.

The short-form video app has until mid-September to change its ownership structure or face a ban in the United States, after a number of deadline extensions from President Trump.

The $2.99 delivery service is starting small in Dallas but could take off nationwide if successful.

Nvidia has told some of its component suppliers to suspend production work related to the H20, its chip tailor-made for the Chinese market, according to two people with direct knowledge of the communications. The directive comes weeks after the Chinese government told local tech companies to ...

A Russian state-backed messenger application called MAX, a rival to WhatsApp that critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on all mobile phones and tablets from next month, the Russian government said on Thursday.

In a new interview, Google says to expect new Pixel designs every few years, while also saying new tablets and flip phones aren't coming.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday creating a new post for the government’s chief design officer and is tapping Airbnb Inc. co-founder Joe Gebbia to fill the position, according to people familiar with the matter.

Germany-based search engine and browser nonprofit Ecosia is the latest party to make an offer for Google's Chrome.

Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀

Apple One is getting even harder to resist with its new Apple TV+ price increase and forthcoming iOS 26 updates for Apple Music.