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No Siri data has ever been used for marketing purposes or sold to a third-party company for any reason, Apple said today in response to accusations that conversations Siri has captured were used for advertising.
A lawsuit that Apple has agreed to settle alleged that Apple provided information obtained from accidental Siri recordings to third-party companies for the purpose of marketing products. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claimed that they were shown ads for Air Jordan shoes and Olive Garden after
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Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move. Read more ›
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Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more ›
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Meta ends US fact-checking partnerships, sparking an emergency meeting by the International Fact-Checking Network. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announcea Meta's shift to community notes, replacing fact-checkers and easing content restrictions. Read more ›
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China EV sales projected to reach 12 million units in 2025, overtaking conventional vehicle sales. Government incentives and fierce domestic competition drive EV adoption. Sales of Chinese electric vehicles are on track to achieve a milestone in 2025, with EVs expected to outsell traditional combustion engine cars in the country for the first time. The... Read more » Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us. These two sections outlining speech (written or visual)... Read more ›
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"We need Greenland for national security purposes," President-elect Trump said during a Tuesday press conference focused on the economy. Read more ›
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The 100-year-old airline also announced partnerships with Uber and YouTube at CES 2025. Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows features a rejig of the series' usual controls due to the addition of being able to go prone. Read more Read more ›
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The moves are part of a broader change in approach by Microsoft, which includes taking a harder look at low performers, sources told BI. Read more ›
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Curious to know what wild ideas Sony might be pondering for the future of gaming? Well, you're in luck: it's just unveiled new conceptual technology designed to ramp up immersion by sticking players inside a TV box and squirting smells into the room. So if you've ever wanted a whiff of Kratos after a hard day's slaying, your dreams are now one step closer to reality. Read more Read more ›
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At CES 2025, X CEO Linda Yaccarino shared her enthusiasm for Meta's adoption of "Community Notes," but it hasn't been so successful for X. Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms. Read more ›
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Despite its new plan to loosen content moderation across its apps, Meta says its policies differ for internal and external discussion. Read more ›
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Former Annapurna Interactive staff - who departed the acclaimed video game publisher last September as part of a "mass exodus" - have reportedly established a new company and will be taking over indie label Private Division's portfolio, which was sold by Take-Two last year. Read more Read more ›
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Jar of Sparks, the Seattle-based "AAA" studio established by Halo Infinite head of design Jerry Hook back in 2022, has halted work its currently unannounced first title as it searches for a new publishing partner, and that's it's looking to "find all of our team new homes" as a result. Read more Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to the way that Meta moderates its social media sites. Read more ›
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The most important part of the press conference was over in the first ten minutes. Read more ›
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Based on rumors and historical product release information, 2025 is going to be an exciting year for Apple. As we outlined in our annual What to Expect Guide, Apple is redesigning the iPhone, jumping into new smart home tech, and preparing to launch new Apple-designed chips. Early in the year, we're expecting to get the iPhone SE 4, a low-cost iPad, M4 MacBook Air models, and a new iPad Air,... Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple. Following Trump's win, Cook congratulated him on social media site X, and in December, Cook had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Cook aimed to maintain a relationship with Trump during Trump's first term as president, and it appears... Read more ›
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Apple today released iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1, minor updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating systems. iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1 come almost a month after Apple released iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2. The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. According to Apple's release notes, iOS 18.2.1 addresses important bugs, and it is... Read more ›
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Apple TV+ will be available to stream for free starting on Friday, January 3, with the promotion set to last through Sunday, January 5. For the first time, Apple is providing unlimited access to its catalog of TV shows and movies with no subscription fee. The Apple TV+ streaming service can be accessed from any web browser and on any device that has an Apple TV app. The Apple TV... Read more ›
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It's nearly the end of the road for the Apple Watch Series 4, which was added to Apple's public-facing vintage products list today. All aluminum and stainless steel 40mm and 44mm models of the Apple Watch Series 4 are now considered vintage worldwide. Apple considers a device to be vintage once five years have passed since the company stopped distributing it for sale. Apple and Apple Authorized Service Providers may... Read more ›
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For over a decade, Apple has consistently announced all-new hardware product lines, from the iPad in 2010 to the Vision Pro in 2023. But for the first time in 14 years, Apple failed to announce any major new hardware products in 2024, focusing solely on updates and refinements to its existing product lines. While Apple unveiled a large number of significant hardware refreshes in 2024, such as the redesigned iPad... Read more ›
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The design of this year's next-generation iPhone 17 will allegedly feature a smoother transition between the edges of the device and the back cover, owing to Apple's use of a new glass-and-metal splicing material process. That's according to the Weibo-based leaker Fixed Focus Digital. In a post on Monday, the Chinese leaker claimed that suppliers say the iPhone 17 is adopting a "process overhaul," suggesting that Apple has developed new... Read more ›
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Apple is expected to release a fourth-generation iPhone SE in March, but it has been rumored that the device will have a different name. The device succeeding the third-generation iPhone SE will be named the iPhone 16E, according to a December 13 post from Fixed Focus Digital, an account with over two million followers on Chinese social media platform Weibo. On December 31, another leaker known as Majin Bu on... Read more ›
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Apple's website still says the first vehicle models with support for next-generation CarPlay would "arrive in 2024," but that did not happen. At this point, it is unclear if next-generation CarPlay will ever launch. Apple has not publicly commented on its plans in quite a long time, but it continued to make preparations behind the scenes throughout 2024. In November, for example, a few redesigned next-generation CarPlay icons appeared within... Read more ›
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Apple recently announced it will be opening a new retail store at the MixC Hefei shopping mall in Hefei, China on January 18 at 10 a.m. local time. To celebrate the store's upcoming grand opening, Apple has shared both a special wallpaper and Apple Watch face featuring a custom-designed Apple logo. The wallpaper is available for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Ahead of the Chinese New Year later this month,... Read more ›
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