Working offline, the “Now playing” option allows you to find the name of music playing around you. However, it has a big drawback: it consumes a lot of battery. If you don’t use it, go to your phone’s settings, click on “Sound and vibration” > “Now listening” and deactivate the “Identify songs playing nearby” function.
Along with iOS 26.5, Apple also released watchOS 26.5 RC yesterday. The update includes a new Pride Luminance watch face with a ton of customization options, as Zac explained earlier today. There are also two key bug fixes that Apple Watch users will appreciate. Apple says watchOS 26.5 fixes a bug affecting iMessage, as well…
T-Mobile Starlink satellite connectivity is now available to T-Mobile users traveling in Canada and New Zealand. T-Mobile users previously had access to cellular connectivity through roaming agreements in Canada and New Zealand, and now T-Satellite connectivity is included. Satellite coverage in Canada is provided by Rogers Satellite, and in New Zealand satellite coverage is provided…
Connect Your AI Coding Agents to Gmail, Drive, and Calendar If you’ve been using Claude Code or OpenAI Codex to write and run code, you’ve probably hit the same wall: the agents are good at reasoning and writing, but they’re isolated from the tools your work actually lives in. They can’t check your inbox, create…
Intel could soon make Apple’s chips. Image credit: Intel Apple has reportedly reached a preliminary agreement under which Intel will become a chip manufacturing partner, helping reduce the company’s reliance on TSMC for Mac chips and more. Reports had previously suggested that the two companies were discussing a deal that would help Apple diversify its…
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the legality of geofence warrants, sometimes also called “digital dragnets” because they capture the location data of large numbers of innocent citizens in addition to criminal suspects. In a practice that raises obvious privacy concerns, law enforcement is increasingly asking tech giants to identify all smartphone users…
American mint You can purchase the Apple Steve Jobs One-Dollar Innovation Coin from the U.S. Mint starting today, May 12, at noon Eastern Time. The U.S. Mint has released specialty coins each year since 2018 to honor American innovation and “pioneering efforts of individuals or groups.” Late…
Windows 11 launched in October 2021 and has become Microsoft’s go-to operating system thanks to the impending end of life of Windows 10. After all this time, there are still significant parts of the operating system that don’t work in dark mode. However, Redmond is making significant progress, bringing a few key dialog boxes into…
If you are tired of downloading countless utility apps to manage storage on your PC, you will be happy to know that there is a way to identify duplicate files on your device using only the built-in tools. After all, incidents like the recent hijacking of the CPUID download site show that even trusted sources…
I’ve been using Claude Pro long enough that I don’t even really think about how much I’ve gained from the subscription. The five hour reset on the free tier was getting old, so I upgraded, and that was sort of the end of the internal debate. What I didn’t have a clear answer to at…