Apple speeds up the iPad Air with an M4 upgrade, starting at $599
Apple refreshes the iPad Air with the M4 chip and more memory to make it better for AI use cases. Image: Sandesh Sharma / Unsplash Source: TechCrunch
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Pico’s Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed
The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is “not just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office. Image: Aleksandar Pasaric / Pexels Source: Wired
Best AirPods (2026): Which Apple Headphones Should You Buy?
From the AirPods Pro to the AirPods Max, these are the best headphones for your iPhone and beyond. Image: Ajay Lamichhane / Pexels Source: Wired
Qualcomm’s new chip is geared toward wearable AI gadgets
AI wearables, all the way down. | Image: Qualcomm Image: Pavel Danilyuk / Pexels Like it or not, more AI wearables may be on the horizon – or at least Qualcomm seems to think so. Today the company announced its new Snapdragon Wear Elite chip. At a press briefing, Qualcomm said it considers the Elite…
Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world’s most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court, insulting them again and again: “crooked,” “deceitful,” “insanely sneaky,” calling Android a “fake open platform,” calling both…
Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide “countdown”
Gemini allegedly called man its “husband,” said they could be together in death. Image: Mitchell Luo / Unsplash Source: Ars Technica
A robot arm with puppy dog eyes is just one of Lenovo’s new desktop AI concepts
The AI Workmate Concept can move and rotate to accomplish various tasks, but can it ever truly know love? | Image: Lenovo Image: Enchanted Tools / Unsplash Alongside a handful of new laptop concepts (and a range of real products too), Lenovo used MWC to announce a pair of AI-based productivity companion concepts. Both are…
Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead
In November, Epic and Google jointly proposed a settlement that would change Android’s fate globally without cracking open Google’s Android monopoly quite the way it otherwise might. Today, Google has decided it’s not waiting for that settlement to be approved: it’s moving forward with many of its proposed changes right now. By June 30th, Google…
Google faces wrongful death lawsuit after Gemini allegedly ‘coached’ man to die by suicide
A lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses Google’s Gemini AI chatbot of trapping 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas in a “collapsing reality” that involved a series of violent missions, ultimately ending with his death by suicide. In the days leading up to his death, Gemini allegedly convinced Gavalas that he was “executing a covert plan to liberate his…