306 place 6
Some app developers are seizing the moment to try to get around the Apple tax.
On May 1, Apple finally succumbed to a court order forcing the company to let U.S. apps link directly to external payment options. The company had resisted complying with the order for nearly four years, and with good reason: It allowed developers to bypass the fee of as much as 30% that Apple collects on many transactions taking place inside iPhone apps. Immediately after the May decision, a slew of app developers sprang into a
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
Astronomer said CEO Andy Byron has resigned after a viral incident at a Coldplay concert. Read more ›
1,098
It’s been eleven years since Xiaomi launched its original Mi Band and the series has now entered its tenth generation. The Mi Band was the catalyst to Xiaomi's rise in the wearables market, managing to maintain its position as one of the best bang for your buck devices out there. With the Smart Band 10 now official, Xiaomi tried to refine its best-selling wearable with a few hardware upgrades and... Read more ›
297 fresh
Looking for Wordle hints? I can help. Plus get the answers to Wordle today and yesterday. Read more ›
262 fresh
In-N-Out's billionaire owner, Lynsi Snyder, said challenges running a business in California prompted her to relocate to Tennessee. Read more ›
261 fresh
An experimental LLM from OpenAI solved some of the world's hardest math problems at the 2025 International Math Olympiad, the company said. Read more ›
149 fresh
Industry moves away from paying gig economy workers in Africa and Asia in push to build ‘smarter’ models Read more ›
104 fresh
EA is planning a three-day event that will finally include the reveal of the next Battlefield game. Rumour has it, it's called - yup, you've guessed it - Battlefield 6. Read more Read more ›
92
After a disastrous launch and dismal sales, Tesla is now offering to give away its most valuable software to convince people to buy its polarizing electric truck. Read more ›
90
Microsoft signed a contract with Vaulted Deep to sequester 4.9 million metric tons of waste deep underground, offsetting its carbon emissions. Read more ›
81
The reptilian race still has some part to play in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' before all is said and done. Read more ›
72
In an informal survey of 241 Business Insider readers, 59.3% of respondents said they had experienced the "Gen Z stare." See what readers had to say. Read more ›
72 fresh
I didn't expect to be so anxious when my daughter was cell-phone free. I realized how addicted I am to the phone and how I need to change my habits. Read more ›
61
Ubisoft's own shareholders have directly challenged the publisher to respond to the huge swell of support behind Stop Killing Games – a consumer movement generated by Ubisoft's decision to take The Crew offline last year. Read more Read more ›
56
By promising to pay for AI failures, the Chinese EV giant is challenging Tesla's "use at your own risk" model. Read more ›
56
By turning the Epstein conspiracy against Trump, the CEO of Tesla cracked the MAGA base, and now the movement that once worshipped the U.S. president is starting to rebel. Read more ›
54 fresh
We ranked every major Lex Luthor performance, including Nicholas Hoult's, to crown Superman's best on-screen nemesis. Read more ›
51
Instead of getting married or having kids, I've spent my 20s and 30s solo traveling to 90 countries. Solo trips teach me about myself and the world. Read more ›
50
"I vibe coded a little game called Coldplay Canoodlers," reads the X.com post by gaming enthusiast/songwriter Jonathan Mann. "You're the camera operator and you have to find the CEO and HR lady canoodling. 10 points every time you find them." Mann's post includes a 30-second clip from the game, which is playable here. Forbes notes that the TikTok video of the couple's reaction has drawn more than 100 million views... Read more ›
49 fresh
The discarded Nintendo SD cards contained a boot image that Nintendo used for the factory setup of its Wii U consoles. Read more ›
46
Erythritol, a widely used sugar substitute found in many low-carb and sugar-free products, may not be as harmless as once believed. New research from the University of Colorado Boulder reveals that even small amounts of erythritol can harm brain blood vessel cells, promoting constriction, clotting, and inflammation—all of which may raise the risk of stroke. Read more ›
46
When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz. We covered all that. But over the course of the interview, I heard something more interesting emerge: two clear new doctrines that are guiding Zuckerberg... Read more ›
59
OpenAI is continuing its push into the application layer with ChatGPT “agents.” As we scooped this week, it plans new features that will allow users to create and edit spreadsheets and presentations, generate reports and automate tasks on their browsers—all through ChatGPT.There was one interesting detail in that news that you might have missed. Instead of leveraging a computer-using agent that would open and click around in a PowerPoint or... Read more ›
50
As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit presentations and spreadsheets that are compatible with PowerPoint and Excel directly in the chatbot without using the Microsoft apps themselves, according to a person who... Read more ›
47
The artificial intelligence boom is already visibly reshaping the cloud wars. For instance, Amazon Web Services looked like an insurmountable front-runner just a few years ago, but Google has made gains among AI developers thanks to its ability to serve some models at a much lower price, my colleague Kevin reported yesterday.More broadly, we’re starting to see evidence that the cloud providers are all racing to make small improvements to... Read more ›
38
Meta will have “the largest compute fleet of any company,” Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told me in an interview first aired on The Information’s TITV Tuesday. “And focusing on that on being powered by a small and talent-dense team, I think we’re gonna have by far the most compute per ... Read more ›
35
Cursor has restricted China-based users from accessing U.S. models offered by its coding assistant software, such as Claude-4-Sonnet and Gemini-2.5-Pro, according to three users. These users received notifications stating that these models had become unavailable due to location-based ... Read more ›
24
As Anthropic’s sale of artificial intelligence has surged, the company has told investors some of its profit-related metrics are improving even as it burns a tremendous amount of cash. That financial performance has prompted some investors to indicate interest in funding Anthropic at a valuation of more than $100 billion if the company decides to pursue a deal, compared to a $58 billion valuation in a financing announced four months... Read more ›
23
Before we get to today’s main column about Grok 4, we wanted to share four things we learned from the craziness on Friday, when Google snatched the CEO and technology behind Windsurf, a competitor to Cursor that OpenAI had agreed to buy for $3 billion just two months ago. Read more ›
21
Watching last week’s Grok 4 release, one statistic stood out to us. XAI said it spent 10 times as much computational power on reinforcement learning for Grok 4 as it laid out for Grok 3.RL is a common AI development technique that rewards a model for accomplishing certain goals and penalizes it for other behaviors. The xAI disclosure provided further evidence of how AI labs are increasingly improving their models... Read more ›
17
The crypto industry today scored its biggest win in Congress with the passage in the House of Representatives of the Genius Act. The bill, which the Senate cleared last month, legitimizes and regulates stablecoins, crypto tokens pegged to the U.S. dollar. President Donald Trump is expected to sign it quickly. It’s a moment of rejoicing for crypto, which has bounced back from an excruciating downturn and regulatory crackdown under President... Read more ›
13
Most popular sources
![]() |
44% 19 |
![]() |
13% 6 |
![]() |
9% 3 |
![]() |
5% 3 |
![]() |
5% 1 |
View sources » |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
20.07.2025 02:58
Last update: 02:40 EDT.
News rating updated: 09:50.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.