Apple Park employees are testing two new AI chatbots

Apple's new internal chatbot, Enchante, serves dual purposes — to act as an employee assistant while gathering crucial performance feedback for future Apple Intelligence features.

Amber Neely 4 months ago 0

Apple gets a partial win in iPhone user privacy lawsuit, but not on merit

Apple has secured a partial win in a lawsuit claiming it violated privacy laws in California, but the ruling came down to technicalities and sloppy preparation rather than on merit.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 2

Japan finally gets Apple FItness+, lazily using AI-generated dubs

Apple Fitness+ is now available in Japan, but instead of using local trainers, and despite being one of the most wealthy companies in the world, Apple has dubbed existing workouts with AI-generated versions of the trainers' voices.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 7

Apple FaceTime Eye Contact feature hit by patent troll in EU court

Apple has been accused of infringing on a European patent covering gaze correction, the feature used to correct a user's eye line in FaceTime calls.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 9

Apple under legal attack over fall detection tech

Fall detection wearable specialist UnaliWear says that Apple Watch and just about every other smartwatch ever made infringes on its fall detection patents. It's in for a long and costly battle.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 4

Highly insecure AI apps in the App Store are leaking tons of user data

Extremely poorly constructed AI apps available in the App Store are leaking the data of millions of users, a repository from a security research team has revealed.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 1

Make Apple give us a better deal, bank tells Australian government

Australia's Commonwealth Bank wants the country's government to force better terms on Apple for letting rivals use its Apple Pay-style NFC systems on iPhone.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 10

How to use or disable iOS Apple Mail's new categories feature

As of iOS 18.2, Apple's Mail app features categories to help users sort through their mail. Here's what it does, how to fine-tune it, and how to turn it off if you prefer.

Charles Martin 4 months ago 7

How to use an iPhone to take pictures of the Aurora Borealis

The biggest solar storm in 20 years will hit the Earth on January 19. 2026. Here's how to get the perfect picture of the Aurora Borealis using your iPhone.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 7

ChatGPT will soon start showing ads, but they won't affect its responses

OpenAI is refining the way ChatGPT functions to bring in more money, including a new $8 ChatGPT Go tier and the introduction of advertising at the bottom of queries for free users.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 8

In case you ever doubted it, Apple Car was real — reveals Airbnb

You could have studied literally thousands of Apple patents, you could have counted the permits it's had to be granted, or could just have waited for Airbnb to show us that Apple really, truly, was working on an Apple Car.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 22

Setapp Mobile EU app store, CleanMyMac Business both close down for good

MacPaw's third-party iOS App Store has failed in the EU, and at the same time, the company's mobile device management service is shutting down too.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 4

Grok now bans illegal porn generation, after monetizing it

Following worldwide pressure including bans in certain countries, Elon Musk's X has announced it will no longer allow Grok to create child porn and deepfake nudes. There is a catch.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 24

Apple AI research shows how MLLMs understand, generate, search for images

Apple's researchers continue to focus on multimodal LLMs, with studies exploring their use for image generation, understanding, and multi-turn web searches with cropped images.

Marko Zivkovic 4 months ago 1

Verizon wireless outage left iPhones stuck in SOS across the U.S.

Verizon customers across the U.S. experienced a wireless network outage on Wednesday that disrupted calls, texts, and mobile data.

Andrew Orr 4 months ago 1

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