After adding lockscreen, Control Center, and Action Button shortcuts last month, Google is updating Gemini on iPhone with homescreen widgets. more…...
Social media has been buzzing this week since Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton was spotted at Apple Park with company CEO Tim Cook. While we don’t know exactly why Hamilton was there on this occasion, there’s not much mystery around it either. That’s because Apple and Lewis Hamilton have two orders of business together. more…...
Apple’s big iOS 19 unveiling is a little over a month away, and according to a surprising source, it sounds like the update’s Apple Intelligence upgrades might include supporting multiple new third-party AI models. more…...
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Today Google CEO Sundar Pichai has been in court, testifying as part of the company’s ongoing antitrust trial. And during proceedings, he expressed optimism about Gemini becoming part of Apple Intelligence as early as this year. more…...
Alongside ongoing all-time lows on the entire M4 MacBook Air lineup at $150 off as well as the best prices to date across the entire M3 iPad Air lineup, today we are starting off on the most affordable side of Apple’s current-gen tech lineup with all four colors of the new 11-inch iPad at the $299 Amazon all-time low. On top of all that, we are also now tracking the best prices to date on the elevated titanium Apple Watch Series 10 configs with $150 in savings, alongside the ongoing offers on the standard models from $299, as well as a chance to save as much as $506 on an unlocked iPhone 15 Pro in Amazon Premium Renewed condition. All of that, some MagSafe chargers, and more await down below. more…...
Apple TV+ is exactly one month away from debuting Bono: Stories of Surrender, a concert-style “documentary event.” This will also be the first ever feature-length film in Apple Immersive Video on the Vision Pro. And today, Apple debuted the first trailer to show us what to expect. more…...
It’s been about a year since Apple announced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024. Since then, Siri has received a visual refresh with its new rainbow animation, text-to-Siri support, visual intelligence, and image generation. Features like Genmoji are also available in iOS 18. However, the most critical aspects of Siri, like being conversational and having contextual awareness, are still missing. Meanwhile, AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity are leaps and bounds ahead of Siri in many ways. So, I wanted to put all three to the test to see who deserves to be your go-to voice assistant on the iPhone today. Here is what I found. more…...
Raycast is a powerful Mac app that’s grown increasingly popular since its launch a few years ago. Now, for the first time, Raycast is available on iPhone too via the just-launched iOS app. Here are the details. more…...
Yesterday gave us our best look yet at the upcoming iPhone 17 Air, in the form of a highly realistic dummy model shown alongside the iPhone 16 Pro. Apple will doubtless employ a whole range of superlatives to describe the look of the device: thinnest, slimmest, sleekest … and it will of course be the <superlative>est phone they’ve ever made, and Tim will be sure we’re going to love it … more…...
Meta’s encrypted messaging app WhatsApp will use an approach pioneered by Apple to add AI capabilities without compromising privacy. The company has announced that it will use tech it calls Private Processing, which appears to exactly replicate Apple’s Private Cloud Compute … more…...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said the company is “excited” to be the first customer of TSMC’s Arizona chip plants. He made the comment as the company started construction on its third US plant. TSMC says that the addition of the third plant makes the project the largest single foreign investment in US history … more…...