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Apple Music is giving its Android app the glow up it desperately needed
TL;DR Apple Music 7.0 is hitting beta testers with some major UI improvements. Artist pages get a full overhaul with big artwork and easy-to-reach bios. The app now better mirrors the iOS original, complete with a dash of Liquid Glass It’s great that we’re finally at a point now where some of the best services from companies behind major smartphone platforms are no longer locked to their own device ecosystems, and you can access…
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DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground
When DoorDash set out to build a drone delivery business, it started with the tricky logistics that happen on the ground before it looked up. The autonomous drone came last, according to the company, which unveiled its new six-propeller aircraft at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event on Wednesday. Before DoorDash worked on the aircraft, the company focused on ground infrastructure, including loading systems, how food would be handed off from a restaurant’s kitchen,…
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BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper.
For years, automotive analysts have been predicting that electric vehicles would become cheaper than their gas-powered equivalents. They figured it would happen sometime in the latter half of the 2020s. BloombergNEF, for example, expected it to happen in 2026. EV prices have dropped significantly in the last few years, but it has been hard to compare prices with fossil fuel vehicles because not every EV has a like-for-like gas-powered model. BMW has given us…
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iOS 27.2 adds new Messages feature that’s already a favorite
iOS 27.2 is coming soon with several new features for iPhone users, including a Messages addition that was previously in the iOS 27 beta but later got pulled: Suggestions. Throughout the iOS 27 beta this summer, one of my favorite AI features was a Messages addition that didn’t feel like AI at all: Suggestions. Messages offers one-tap suggestions based on the context of users’ conversations, making it easier than ever to get things done,…
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Apple Invites App Updated With Three New Features
The free Apple Invites app for the iPhone was updated today with three new features: shared albums now support full-resolution photo sharing, Image Playground now lets you create photorealistic backgrounds for invites, and guests who need to verify their email can now tap a link in their inbox instead of entering a code. Released in February 2025, the Apple Invites app makes it easy to invite people to events, such as birthday parties and…
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OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
One of the more intriguing announcements at OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday came in an aside from CEO Sam Altman, who revealed the company’s new “Decisions API.” The API apparently provides similar functionality to Jev, a model released by TypeSafe AI earlier this month that’s explicitly designed for software automation. A kind of super-powered classifier built on an LLM, developers can give Jev a set of choices that it outputs as probabilities cheaply…
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There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We’ve been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction. Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off World War III. Or AI agents will unleash widespread cyberattacks and take over the internet. Given too much autonomy, the machines will run amok. They may seek to deceive their creators—wait, that’s already happened. Suppose…
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How Instagram Direct engineers built AI-native UI architecture with Jetpack Compose and reduced token cost per agent session by 33%
Posted by Pavlo Stavytskyi, Software Engineer, Meta and Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Google This blog post is written in collaboration with the Meta team. Instagram Direct is one of the core surfaces on Instagram, handling billions of user messages every single day. Over years of iteration, the team squeezed every micro-optimization possible out of the legacy Android View system. However, maintaining and expanding a heavily optimized legacy surface creates significant technical debt and…
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Acheter un appareil Matter : les vérifications utiles avant de remplir son panier
Une prise connectée porte le logo Matter. Votre application de maison connectée aussi. La tentation est de considérer l’affaire réglée. Pourtant, le bon achat dépend encore du réseau utilisé, du contrôleur présent chez vous et des fonctions que vous souhaitez réellement retrouver dans l’application. Le logo apporte une base commune ; il ne remplace pas la lecture de la fiche du modèle. Voici une méthode pour décider sans transformer chaque nouvelle ampoule en projet…
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Breville's new $600 coffee machine makes pour-overs from scratch
The Spiral Luxe Auto Pour Over combines a coffee grinder with a rotating water spout. What Breville did for toast and soda the company is now hoping to do for pour-over coffee. The new Breville Spiral Luxe Auto Pour Over is a decidedly premium $600 kitchen appliance that makes pour-overs from scratch. Machines that turn the somewhat fussy process of making pour-overs into something as simple as a Mr. Coffee have existed for years,…
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Early launch deals live on Apple’s latest: Series 12, Ultra 4, Beats 360, Mac mini, more
Apple unleashed a collection of next-generation products this month, from the new AirPods 5 and Beats 360 ANC headphones (last day for the launch discount), the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, right through to the latest M6-powered Mac mini and Mac Studio. All of which are accompanied by a series of new accessories. Amazon is also carrying over a number of launch discounts on some of them courtesy of its early fall…
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Google maps out transition plan to replace Gemini Gems with Skills
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The end of the line is coming for Gemini Gems, as they’re set to be replaced by Skills. Google recently began warning users of this change through a banner in the Gems manager of the Gemini app. The company has now provided a timeline for the rollout of Skills and the phase-out of Gems. Gems are being replaced across all Google surfaces,…
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« Il y en aura beaucoup » : Cillian Murphy sera la star absolue de 28 ans plus tard Part 3
Recevez tous les soirs un résumé de l’actu importante avec Le Récap’ Que les amateurs d’apocalypse et d’infectés enragés se rassurent : la saga lancée en 2002 avec 28 jours plus tard, puis prolongée par 28 semaines plus tard (2007) et 28 ans plus tard (2025), n’a pas encore dit son dernier mot. Interrogé le 30 septembre 2026 lors d’une masterclass à Zurich, Danny Boyle est sorti du silence concernant l’avenir de la franchise.…
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Smartphones
Google Store Referral Program back for Pixel 11: 10% off phones, $50 Store credit
Following the Pixel 11 launch last month, the Pixel Referral Program is now back and refreshed on the Google Store. A buyer who uses your alphanumeric code gets 10% off a Pixel phone purchase on the US Google Store. They need to enter it during the checkout process, with the discount available until November 4, ahead of the holiday shopping season. You will get $50 in Google Store credit “approximately 30 days after purchase,”…
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The AI Tamagotchis are coming
Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: It’s useful, and it’s cute. Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: It’s useful, and it’s cute. While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI,…
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IEEE Celebrates Innovators Shaping the Future
Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards. The honorees are selected by the IEEE Awards Board based on their extraordinary technical achievements, societal impact, and leadership in specialized engineering disciplines and are approved by the IEEE Board of Directors. “The 2027 IEEE Technical Field Award recipients embody the relentless spirit…
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Apple Music finally lands in four countries 11 years after launch
Apple Music is now available in more countries, with iPhone users in Albania and three others now able to subscribe and listen to tracks. While Apple does strive to get its services available in as many territories as possible, some are slower to gain services than others. On Wednesday, the list of countries Apple Music is available in grew by four. Initially spotted by @Aaronp613 on X and confirmed by a check of Apple's…
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Apple Event on October 13?
Earlier this week, Daring Fireball's John Gruber floated Tuesday, October 13 as a potential date for Apple to hand out iPhone Duo review units to selected reviewers in person, and it appears that he might have been on to something. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman today reported that Apple plans to unveil its all-new smart home hub, a second-generation HomePod mini, and a new Apple TV 4K model on October 13, the same date that Gruber…
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Reddit imposes new restrictions on Old Reddit
Last month, Reddit signaled that there would be significant changes coming to "Old Reddit" as it continues to fight AI scraping. Now, the company says that it will soon restrict the 21-year-old desktop version of its website to "recent" users of the classic layout only. "In the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast…
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Reddit says it has to cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots
Viewing the old Reddit UI will get even harder if you’re not a mod, now that it’s only available to accounts that have used it recently. Viewing the old Reddit UI will get even harder if you’re not a mod, now that it’s only available to accounts that have used it recently. Reddit is further limiting who can use the “Old Reddit” experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automated traffic.…
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Actualité : McDonald’s assure que ses franchisés sont libres de fixer leurs prix, mais surveille ceux qui ignorent les recommandations de son IA
Depuis quelque temps, McDonald's utilise une IA qui estime ce que la clientèle de chaque restaurant est prête à payer. Une méthode déjà déployée sur les terres du géant de la restauration rapide, aux États-Unis donc, mais aussi dans certains marchés internationaux. Reuters a consulté des captures de l'outil et interrogé neuf sources qui connaissent son fonctionnement. L'IA de McDonald's analyse des millions de transactions quotidiennes dans près de 14 000 enseignes aux États-Unis.…
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Smartphones
Les paiements sans contact ne passent plus sur les Pixel, encore un bug sur les smartphones de Google
Un problème lié au NFC empêchent les propriétaires de Google Pixel de payer sans contact avec leur smartphone. Il semble exister quelques solutions de secours pour contourner le bug en attendant un véritable correctif. Un nouveau bug particulièrement gênant touche de nombreux propriétaires de Google Pixel. Sur Reddit, ils témoignent de l’impossibilité de payer sans contact avec leur smartphone à cause d’un problème de NFC. Nous avons nous-même été victime de ce souci à…
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Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’
Amazon doesn’t have much to say about privacy when it comes to drivers wearing camera-equipped smart glasses. Amazon doesn’t have much to say about privacy when it comes to drivers wearing camera-equipped smart glasses. Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver’s smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they’re in use, including people and private property. Bloomberg reports that the glasses could take “several thousand…
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Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now…
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