With iOS 27, Apple is introducing several CarPlay features that will improve your in-car experience, both while you’re driving and when you’re idle in the car. From new video experiences to Siri AI, there are plenty of new options to look forward to. Video apps CarPlay apps can integrate video navigation capabilities, so you can search for and watch videos on your car’s screen when you’re parked. The video playback feature doesn’t work when a car is moving for safety reasons, but if you’re watching something and driving, playback will switch to audio only. iPhone apps that support AirPlay can…
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Pabradyphoto/Getty Images The US Federal Reserve has announced the sector leaders who will lead its various working groups responsible for guiding monetary policies. The country’s central bank has made some puzzling appointments to its productivity and employment team, which will “assess the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, to inform the Federal Reserve’s policy judgments.” One of the advisors will be new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. After leaving Microsoft’s Core AI group for gaming, in the first months of her tenure she oversaw another rise in gaming hardware prices and recently told the…
Apple TV is taking over Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con for the first time, according to Deadline. Apple is hosting a two-hour panel on July 25 with stars from Widow’s Bay, Matchbox The Movie, Mayday, Dark Matter and Silo. Hall H is known for some of Comic-Con’s biggest panels and events, and Saturday attracts the biggest crowds. Apple’s event will precede a major presentation from Marvel Studios. Matchbox The Movie panelists will include John Cena, Jessica Biel, and Arturo Castro, while Dark Matter panelists will include Blake Crouch, Matt Tolmach, Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, and more. The…
ANDRANIK HAKOBYAN/Shutterstock Homeowners all have at least one thing in common: limited space. We also all rely heavily on electronics for entertainment and daily convenience, so much so that we tend to keep old tech products, like headphones and gaming consoles, on hand “just in case,” even after purchasing a replacement. But for the sake of a clean, tidy home, there comes a time to admit that it’s best to get rid of some unwanted electronics — or at least give them to someone who will actually use them. Of…
If Google AI tools are used, this will automatically be noted in My Ad Center. Google Google is adding more tools to provide transparency around the use of generative AI in ads. The My Ad Center panel now has a section with information about how this ad was created. It will be accessible on ads worldwide on Google’s Search, YouTube and Discover properties. When Google’s comprehensive AI tools are used to create or edit an ad, the disclosure will be automatically added to the panel. If other tools are used, My Ad Center will allow brands…
Images Tada/Shutterstock YouTube ads continued to get worse. Not only have we seen hour-long unskippable ads appear on the website in the past, but the service has also served YouTube unskippable ads on TVs, making it almost impossible to avoid them, even in your living room. The consensus for many is that you should purchase YouTube Premium to avoid watching a ton of ads. However, DuckDuckGo offers another solution. Starting today, DuckDuckGo says its browser will now block video ads like those found on YouTube by default on iOS, Windows,…
OpenAI today announced ChatGPT Work, a ChatGPT agent with built-in Codex that can perform tasks on web, mobile, and desktop using information from your applications. ChatGPT Work can run tasks in multiple stages, using scheduling to work independently. Like Claude Cowork, ChatGPT can use your computer to perform background tasks on all applications. Tasks can be started and managed on any device, including a smartphone. On desktop, OpenAI merges the Codex app with the ChatGPT app. ChatGPT Work can use local files and applications to complete tasks, or a new built-in browser to access online websites, tools and files. Plugins…
Araya Doheny/Getty Images Thanks to Movies Anywhere and their Blu-Ray to digital offerings, I had a huge library of digital movies on Vudu. You may be wondering why I’m starting with this and why I’m talking about Vudu, in an article on Fandango. That’s because what Fandango at Home is currently was Vudu, and again, it’s in the process of being rebranded, but hopefully those with existing accounts and libraries won’t be affected much by this change. In a recent email update, Fandango made it clear that it is converting…
Apple has held meetings with PrismML about how it could use the startup’s technology to run much larger AI models directly on iPhones, according to The information. The report states that PrismML successfully minified Alibaba’s large open source language model, Qwen 3.6, to fully work on an iPhone 17 Pro. The model has 27 billion parameters, which is larger than the AFM 3 Core Advanced model built into the Apple device with 20 billion parameters. Apple’s model supports iOS 27 improvements such as more expressive Siri AI voices and improved system-wide dictation on the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air…
Apple and MLB today released the August schedule for Apple TV’s weekly Friday Night Baseball doubleheader. Friday Night Baseball games are included with an Apple TV streaming subscription at no additional cost. Popular storiesApple releases second beta versions of watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6 and visionOS 26.6Apple today provided second beta builds of the upcoming watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, and visionOS 26.6 betas to developers for testing. The software comes three weeks after Apple launched the first beta versions. Software updates are available through the Settings app on each device, and because these are developer betas, a free developer account is…