In the European Union, Apple is finally letting third-party app shops work with the iPhone. This could be the start of a new era for its app ecosystem that is busy, hard to manage, and full of different kinds of apps. At least, it might, based on how developers deal with a €0.50 fee that … Read more
A new car mount for your smartphone just launched that offers a rare combo: Qi2 wireless charging at high speeds — and at a fair price. The Qi2 car mount, from accessories maker ESR, offers 15W wireless charging to fast-charge your iPhone 15 and 15 Pro at its highest capacity while you’re en route. 9to5Toys … Read more
Ring will no longer let local cops publicly ask people for doorbell footage through its Neighbors app. The Amazon-owned business announced it’s going to sunset its Request for Assistance tool this week, forcing police to obtain a warrant for most of its video requests. This change might seem like a step in the right direction, … Read more
Epic plans to launch the Epic Games Store on the iPhone this year in the European Union — and it’s bringing Fortnite back to the device along with it. The news comes after Apple shared how it will open up iOS in response to the EU’s crackdown on Big Tech. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney described … Read more
With iOS 17.4, Apple is making a number of huge changes to the way its mobile operating system works in order to meet with new regulations in the EU. One of them is an important product shift: for the first time, Apple is going to allow different browser engines to run on iOS — but … Read more
Over the last day, sexually explicit pictures of Taylor Swift made by AI have been going around on X (formerly Twitter). This is the latest example of how easy it is for fake pornography made by AI to spread and how hard it is to stop it. More than 45 million people saw one of … Read more
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, tried to send a 45-second video to regulators of an incident in which one of its driverless cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet but was hampered by “internet connectivity issues,” according to a report compiled by a law firm investigating the incident. The law firm, Quinn Emanuel … Read more
Nvidia is releasing a new feature for all RTX GPU owners today: RTX Video HDR. Much like how Nvidia’s RTX Video Super Resolution can upscale old, blurry web videos, RTX Video HDR uses AI to turn SDR color space video to HDR. You just need an HDR10-compatible computer with HDR enabled in Windows. Nvidia’s RTX … Read more
Microsoft is starting its immersive 3D meetings inside Microsoft Teams today. Microsoft Mesh, the company’s mixed reality platform, is coming out of preview and being integrated into Teams to let people meet in virtual spaces with or without a VR headset. I got to try out Mesh inside Microsoft Teams late last year, and it … Read more
Great news for those of you already feeling subscription fatigue: you can subscribe to buy now, pay later (BNPL) service Klarna for $7.99 a month. At first look, this seemed pretty fucking weird to me. I mean, the entire point of Klarna is that you can basically do layaway without paying any kind of interest; … Read more
