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Soon, Apple will let businesses customize how they appear in emails and phone calls on the iPhone. Apple announced on Wednesday how companies using its Business Connect tool can add their brand name and logo in ways that will pop up in iPhone apps used for email, phone calls, and payments.
Apple first introduced Business Connect last year as a way for businesses to claim listings across Maps, Messages, Wallet, Siri, and its other apps.
Each registered business can confirm its info is.
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Apple today announced an update to its Apple Business Connect feature, designed to allow any verified business to create a consistent branding and location presence across apps that include Maps, Wallet, Phone, and Mail. Using Business Connect, companies are able to sign up to display their brand in the Phone app when a call is placed to an iPhone user, or in the Mail app to make an incoming email... Read more ›
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Amazon today refreshed its popular Kindle e-reader lineup, introducing the first Kindle that has a color display. The $280 Kindle Colorsoft has a 7-inch high-contrast display that Amazon says offers "paper-like color." While Amazon has released tablets with traditional LCD displays that support color, the Colorsoft is E Ink like Amazon's other Kindle tablets, but with new technology that allows for color. Amazon is using LED pixels and a new... Read more ›
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For the last several years, Apple has been working to create its own 5G modem, with the eventual goal of eliminating the need to use third-party modem technology. Apple's 5G modem is inching closer to completion, and we could see the first iPhone with an Apple modem in 2025. This guide covers everything we know about Apple's 5G modem development. First Products With Apple's 5G Modem Swapping out a modem... Read more ›
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General Motors is investing $625 million in the domestic EV supply chain, partnering with Lithium Americas Corp to develop a lithium mine in Nevada. Read more ›
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A year after it was first teased, Analogue says it’s nailed its most complicated project yet: rebuilding the Nintendo 64 from scratch. The Analogue 3D will ship in Q1 2025 — it was originally slated for 2024 — and pre-orders start on October 21 at $250. Like all of the company’s machines, the Analogue 3D has an FPGA (field programmable gate array) chip coded to emulate the original console on... Read more ›
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The feature will likely appear in the Android 15 QPR 1 release which is expected to arrive in December. Read more ›
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Honor CEO George Zhao has given us a glimpse at the upcoming Honor Magic7 Pro in a demo he recently did. The phone is housed in one of those camouflage cases, meant for prototypes only, and designed to hide most of their distinctive design features. Thus, as you can see, we can't really tell a lot from these images. What is obvious is that the phone has a pill shaped... Read more ›
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Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge Wear OS is much better than it used to be, so there’s never been a better time to consider a smartwatch. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Apple's chief people officer Carol Surface is leaving the company, reports Bloomberg. Surface joined Apple in February 2023, so she has been at the company less than two years. Most senior executives are at Apple for much longer periods of time, and it is not clear why Surface is leaving. She was hired when Apple decided to split its primary human resources role from retail last year, and she reported... Read more ›
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled a new electric vehicle dedicated to self-driving, a possible milestone after years of false promises and blown deadlines. The robotaxi is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle, lacking a steering wheel or pedals, meaning it will need approval from regulators before going into production. The design was futuristic, with doors that open upward like butterfly wings and a small cabin with only enough space for two passengers.... Read more ›
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk surprised attendees of the “We, Robot” event by presenting a new, unexpected vehicle: a passenger van. The robovan is intended to for the company’s Tesla Network, an autonomous ridehailing service for purpose-built self-driving cars, as well as Tesla customers’ personally owned vehicles. Tesla has dropped hints about a van before. In its Master Plan Part Deux, the company said it was developing “high passenger-density urban transport”... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Google Chrome has begun to phase out uBlock Origin. The developer of the free ad blocker, Raymond Hill, recently reposted a screenshot that shows Chrome automatically turning off uBlock Origin because it is “no longer supported.” The change comes as Google Chrome migrates to Manifest V3, a new extension specification that could impact the effectiveness of some ad blockers. uBlock Origin has launched uBlock Origin Lite, which... Read more ›
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Image: Tesla A bunch of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots walked out alongside the reveal of Tesla’s new Robovan vehicle at tonight's Cybercab event. The updated robot is also seen in a video doing daily human tasks like bringing in a package off the porch. “The Optimus will walk amongst you,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk qips. He explains that you can walk up to them and that they can do things... Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company is getting ready to test the ability to stream games that you own that aren’t part of the existing Xbox Game Pass library. As part of a long-running project known as Project Lapland inside Microsoft, the software giant has been readying its Xbox... Read more ›
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Image: Tesla Elon Musk promised a brighter future, but believing him requires an enormous leap of faith. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Image: the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks. The Internet Archive is now back online in a “provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder... Read more ›
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Image: MKBHD Marques Brownlee published a video on Friday addressing the criticisms around Panels, his new wallpaper app, saying that he and the team “failed on the price front” at launch. The app received an outpour of criticism from fans, both on the MKBHD YouTube channel and across social platforms. Discussing the app, Brownlee admitted it needed work. “If I was reviewing this app, I would not have been very... Read more ›
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Members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force search a flood-damaged area with a search canine in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River on October 4th in Asheville, North Carolina. | Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images FEMA employees scrambling to respond to the devastation caused by hurricanes Milton and Helene are facing a new, unexpected challenge: violent threats on social media. TikTok posts... Read more ›
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