The acquired firm was working on a tool to control macOS directly with AI. OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated (SAI), perhaps best known for the core team that produced what became Shortcuts on Apple platforms. More recently, the team has been working on Sky, a context-aware AI interface…
“Mico” literally tries to put a face on Microsoft’s chatbot-turned-assistant. Microsoft said earlier this month that it wanted to add better voice controls to Copilot, Windows 11’s built-in chatbot-slash-virtual assistant. As described, this new version of Copilot sounds an awful lot like another stab at Cortana, the voice assistant…
New phone design compromises on camera and battery to achieve a lighter weight. Apple’s iPhone Air was the company’s most interesting new iPhone this year, at least insofar as it was the one most different from previous iPhones. We came away impressed by its size and weight in our…
It may not be as spendy as the Vision Pro, but $1,800 is still a lot. The era of Android virtual reality is here… again. Google’s first two attempts at making Android fit for your face didn’t work out, but the AI era and a partnership with Samsung have…
“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position …” This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed. A Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affected AWS cloud hosting, resulting in an outage that impacted more than…
Apple backs down from some aspects of Liquid Glass, but not others. Apple’s new Liquid Glass user interface design was one of the most noticeable and divisive features of its major software updates this year. It added additional fluidity and translucency throughout iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Apple’s other operating…
Likeness detection will flag possible AI fakes, but Google doesn’t guarantee removal. AI content has proliferated across the Internet over the past few years, but those early confabulations with mutated hands have evolved into synthetic images and videos that can be hard to differentiate from reality. Having helped to…
It’s a gorgeous tablet, but what does an iPad need with more processing power? This year’s iPad Pro is what you might call a “chip refresh” or an “internal refresh.” These refreshes are what Apple generally does for its products for one or two or more years after making…
HBO Max subscription fees have risen every year for the past three years. HBO Max subscriptions are getting up to 10 percent more expensive, owner Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) revealed today. HBO Max’s ad plan is going from $10 per month to $11/month. The ad-free plan is going from…
Apple M5 trades blows with Pro and Max chips from older generations. When I’m asked to recommend a Mac laptop for people, Apple’s low-end 14-inch MacBook Pro usually gets lost in the shuffle. It competes with the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air, significantly cheaper computers that meet or exceed…
