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Your Verizon Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus perks are about to cost more
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Recently, NBCUniversal raised the price of Peacock subscription plans. Unfortunately, every tier on the platform was hit with a bump of $1.00 or more. On the heels of that price hike, Verizon is preparing to raise the price of its Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus streaming perks. But at least one plan is safe from the change. According to a Verizon…
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Google Pay and Apple Pay are finally coming to Walmart
What you need to know Walmart is finally embracing contactless payments, as Apple Pay and Google Pay are coming to Walmart and Sam’s Club after years of resistance. Tap to Pay will reach all U.S. Walmart stores and Sam’s Clubs by the end of 2026, with fuel stations following by mid-2027. Cash, chip cards, Walmart Pay, and Sam’s Club Scan & Go will remain available alongside the new payment option. Walmart is finally throwing…
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Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams
Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long-suffering VR headset, while eliminating positions across a number of other teams, Bloomberg reported. Over 200 positions, all told, have been cut, sources told Bloomberg, with around 100 from the Vision Pro team. The other 100 have impacted the team behind Siri and another called Intelligent Systems Experience, which focuses on the integration of AI into devices. Sources say the company is reshuffling…
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Wearable
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 to get one big upgrade at perfect time
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 are launching next month, and rumors indicate they’ll pack a big upgrade—a new, more powerful chip—that will arrive at just the right time. Most Apple products get more powerful chips all the time—but Apple Watch is the exception. New Apple Watch models debut annually, but more often than not, ‘new’ S-class chips don’t actually pack an improved CPU. True performance upgrades only happen every few years. Last…
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Take-Two subpoenas Discord and Microsoft in hunt for GTA VI leaker
The company is searching for leakers ahead of GTA's November release. Take-Two, parent company of developer Rockstar Games, is taking legal action to find whoever is responsible for leaking footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, according to Kotaku. The company filed two petitions for subpoenas in the Southern District of New York to get Microsoft and Discord to hand over information Take-Two has identified as being associated with the leak. In the case of…
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Where are all Google’s smart displays? Out-of-stock Store listings raise eyebrows
TL;DR The online Google Store is sold out of every single smart display device. While both the Nest Hub and Hub Max simply show as unavailable, there’s an option to sign up for info on the return of Pixel Tablet sales. Google’s expect to introduce a new Google Home Display at some point in the future. In a lot of ways, today’s online Google Store experience is better than it’s ever been, including not…
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Apps & Logiciels
When is Apple Pay coming to your Walmart? Here’s the full schedule
Earlier today, Walmart officially announced it will finally start rolling out Apple Pay after holding out for more than a decade. When will Apple Pay come to your Walmart location? I got my hands on the full launch plan with all that information… In today’s announcement, Walmart said that Apple Pay and broader contactless payment support will start rolling out next week and launch for all stores in the United States by the end…
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Apps & Logiciels
Pixelated 113: Made You (Camera) Look
Welcome to Pixelated episode 113. This week, Damien, Abner, and Will dive into their thoughts and reviews of the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL, and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. Enjoy the episode? You can listen to our brand new weekly members-only Pixelated Pro bonus episode by signing up for 9to5Google Pro! Sponsored by Proton Unlimited: Pixelated listeners can save 30% on an annual subscription to the company’s suite of privacy-friendly…
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Apps & Logiciels
Apple paid Ireland $17 billion last year as EU back-tax case came due
The Financial Times reports that new tax disclosures showed Apple paid Ireland $17 billion in corporate income taxes in 2025, accounting for 40% of its worldwide total. Here are the details. According to The Financial Times, Apple’s tax payments to Ireland reached $17 billion last year, as disclosed in reports required under new EU rules for large companies. The $17 billion total includes back taxes from a long-running EU dispute that ended in 2024,…
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Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging
Most of what we know about the Earth's interior comes from observing seismic waves. These travel at somewhat different speeds depending on the details of the rock they're moving through—whether it's solid or semi-molten, how much water is present, whether it's fractured or solid material, and so on. Get enough data from enough seismic events, and you can start piecing together a picture of what's present at different depths below the surface. In many…
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Apps & Logiciels
TikTok reaches $400M settlement over children’s privacy lawsuit
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that the social media platform violated federal laws designed to protect children’s online privacy. The case stems from a lawsuit first filed in 2024 by the DOJ under the Biden administration. The DOJ alleged that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by allowing millions of children under the age…
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Wearable
Pixel Watch 5 lets you customize double pinch to dismiss alarms, skip music, & more
Besides expanded availability across apps, the double pinch gesture on the Pixel Watch 5 benefits from being able to “Customize actions” across music and alarms. On the Pixel Watch 4, you can only snooze an alarm with the double pinch gesture. The new model lets you change the behavior and set it to dismiss. Go to Settings > Gestures > Hand gestures and scroll down for Customize actions. Skipping music is also convenient, while…
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Oura’s sleep tracking is under fire in a proposed class action lawsuit
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Oura is one of the biggest names in smart rings, but a new lawsuit questions just how much faith you should place in its nightly sleep scores. A proposed class action filed in California accuses the smart ring maker of misleading customers about the accuracy of its sleep tracking, alleging that some of its sleep-stage results have “a coin flip’s chance of…
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Google is giving you more control over your shared photo location data
Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is introducing a new Photo Picker API that allows users to choose if location data is included with the photos they share. If the user agrees to share location data with an app, they won’t be asked again for that app. Users will be able to revoke access or regrant access by tapping on the location info button in the bottom right corner of the Photo…
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Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says
This week, two New York City renters filed a class action complaint alleging that a brokerage business called Compass—which has been boycotting posting listings on free digital platforms like Zillow—has now delisted so many rental units that it has created a fake supply shock that is artificially raising rents. According to plaintiffs, Peter Castaneda and Haley Gelfand, Compass has bought so many brokerage firms over the past decade-plus that it maintains a monopoly, controlling…
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Accessoires
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods: All the New Rumors
Apple is working on AirPods that have cameras for feeding data to Siri. The new earbuds will be Apple's first AI wearable, and they're expected to launch sometime in 2027. Leaked Video Apple accidentally left a demo video featuring its rumored camera-equipped AirPods in macOS Tahoe 26.7 in mid-August. In the demo, a man holds up a book so the cameras in the AirPods can see the title. "With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes…
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Musique
Blue Promenade : Le groove du sel et du bitume
Loin des clichés, Guy de Lussigny capture l'instant fragile où la ville rencontre l'horizon. Un titre qui respire, pulse et refuse de livrer tous ses secrets au premier passage.
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Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri
Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include “largely shutting down” a Vision Pro gaming team and “reducing the size” of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut. Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg it was making the changes to “to evolve our business to deliver the best experiences for our users,”…
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Wearable
Apple refurb store: Apple TV 4K is back, Apple Watch Ultra 3 offers, more
We’re back with our check-in for what’s new on Apple’s official Certified Refurbished Store this week. This week’s highlights include the MacBook Neo, new MacBook Air configurations, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and more. Apple’s Certified Refurbished Store is a fantastic way to save up to 15% on Apple gear while still buying straight from the company’s website. We track every addition and subtraction from Apple’s Certified Refurbished Store so you don’t have to. Inventory…
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Smartphones
Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
Several months ago, Motorola and the makers of GrapheneOS announced a team-up that would expand support for the privacy-centric OS to beyond Google's Pixel phones. The announcement, however, was bereft of details. Now, the creators of the OS have taken to Mastodon (naturally) to provide an update. Moto's GrapheneOS phones are on track to launch in 2027, but they'll cost a pretty penny. The upcoming Moto devices won't ship with GrapheneOS, but they will…
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IA
ChatGPT could soon let you lock chats behind a PIN or fingerprint
TL;DR OpenAI has been spotted working on a new feature that would let you lock your chats. Locked chats could let you hide saved ChatGPT conversations from your sidebar, history, and search results behind a PIN or fingerprint. Unlike Temporary Chats, locked chats are designed to stick around, giving users a way to save sensitive conversations without leaving them visible in their regular history. Locked chats could also create a privacy boundary for Memory,…
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Apple Guts Vision Pro Gaming and Immersive Video Teams, Trims Siri Staff
In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg. Apple is "largely shutting down" the Vision Pro team focused on gaming, and it is paring down the team that makes immersive video content. Approximately 100 employees who were part of the Vision Products Group have been laid off, with Apple also cutting…
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Apple's latest layoffs extend past just Vision Pro development teams
A day after we broke the news of about 60 layoffs across the Apple Vision project, there are reportedly more in the Siri team too. Citing people familiar with the matter, the same as we did, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg has exposed more layoffs inside Apple. This time, beyond the Apple Vision team, Apple is also laying off staff on its Siri team. All told, including Apple Vision Immersive Video, Apple Vision gaming, and…
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IA
LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working
The platform will now alert users when their posts have been reported using the tool. LinkedIn recently began testing a dedicated reporting tool for AI slop. After only a few weeks, the company says it's already improving the quality of the posts people see in their feeds. The "seems like AI slop" button has been used more than a million times since its launch, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan shared in an update.…
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