Apple Pay adding more payment options, expanding to Windows, Chrome users
Apple plans to add several new features to Apple Pay and Apple Wallet later this year, as well as more deeply integrate financing, points and buy now, pay later options into the iPhone. The company said the new features are part of its annual iOS update scheduled for release in the fall. The company announced […]
What to know about iOS 18 and the new features coming to some — but not all — iPhones
This is Apple’s new golden standard of deliciousness. The technology company has announced a fall release. iOS 18, Which It gives your iPhone a new look and feel. The operating system also introduces an AI powered by ChatGPT called Apple Intelligence, which is only compatible with the brand’s expensive and latest iPhone 15 Pro and […]
Apple’s new iOS 18 feature for apps has users worried it will allow people to easily ‘cheat’
Apple has announced new features for its upcoming iOS 18 version, but some are worried they could make it easier for their partners to cheat. Users will be able to lock or hide apps on their iPhone home screen once a new update is released in the US this fall, Apple announced on Monday after […]
Will your iPhone accept Apple’s new AI features? Here’s which ones will — and won’t
Only a small percentage of iPhone users will have access to Apple’s latest artificial intelligence operating system. The company announced iOS 18 on Monday, along with “Apple Intelligence,” an AI component powered by ChatGPT. Releasing in the fall, Apple Intelligence will act as an image and emoji generator, as well as an enhanced writing tool. […]
Vermont high school students gossiped about sex lives of peers, faculty
A Vermont high school student is under fire for using a social media app targeted at Gen Z students to anonymously mock a classmate with a disability and make speculations about others’ sexual orientation, according to reports. FizzSocial, a private message board founded by two Stanford University students that billed it as “an uplifting digital […]
SCOTUS to hear Facebook’s bid to toss shareholder suit over Cambridge Analytica scandal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a motion by Meta-owned Facebook to dismiss a private securities fraud lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors in 2017 and 2018 about the company and third parties’ misuse of user data. The Supreme Court was hearing Facebook’s appeal of a lower court decision that allowed […]
Man loses 45 pounds in 3 months thanks to new surgery option
The weight doesn’t weigh on him anymore. A Texas man is halfway to his 90-pound weight loss goal after undergoing a new magnet-based bariatric surgery. “The quality of my life has improved so dramatically that I feel very happy and fulfilled and like I’ve gone back in time,” said Kenneth Yerid, 50. He told the […]
Google dodges jury trial over alleged advertising dominance
A federal judge ruled on Friday that Alphabet Inc.’s Google will not have a jury trial over the company’s monopoly in digital advertising because the company paid $2.3 million to cover U.S. government claims of damages. Google’s payment means it can avoid a jury trial because non-monetary claims in antitrust cases are heard directly by […]
California lawmakers demand AI firms install ‘kill switch’
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies are pushing back against demands from California lawmakers to install “kill switches” designed to mitigate potential dangers from the new technology, with some threatening to pull out of Silicon Valley altogether. Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener has introduced a bill that would subject tech companies to regulations embodied in a new […]
Zoom CEO wants AI digital clones to go to meetings for you
Meetings may soon be a thing of the past. Zoom’s CEO wants to develop “digital twin technology” to allow employees to bring artificially intelligent versions of themselves into meetings and other time-consuming parts of their workday. “You can send a digital version of yourself to join in and go to the beach,” Eric Yuan said. […]