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Apple TV teams up with Academy Award-winning director for the second time
Apple TV confirmed today that it has picked up Alfonso Cuarón’s Ascension series, marking his second collaboration with the platform. Here are the details. In October 2024, Apple TV premiered Disclaimer, a thriller series created by legendary director Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity), and starring Cate Blanchett (Tár), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda), and Sacha Baron Cohen (The Dictator), among others. Today, the company confirmed its second collaboration with Cuarón, announcing that it has picked…
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YouTube’s latest change could be bad news for your favorite creator
TL;DR YouTube is raising its requirements for creators joining its Partner Program. Effectively doubling minimum views, the new rules are set to take effect in February. YouTube is also expanding access to Premium Lite subscriptions. Everybody hates YouTube ads, right? For all the time you may spend grumbling about them, trying to block them, or complaining about how much it costs to eliminate them, it can be easy to forget that these ads are…
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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions will soon be partly fueled by a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that “could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States,” The New York Times reported. These gas-burning plants are increasingly lumped into data center projects. They produce harmful pollutants, which can accelerate climate change impacts and harm public health—contributing to conditions like asthma, heart disease, lung cancer, and strokes. Some communities are demanding…
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YouTube teases Premium Lite expansion, doubles channel monetization requirements
YouTube has confirmed major changes to the Partner Program that allows creators to monetize their channels, as well as teasing expansions to its Premium Lite subscription. In a blog post and video, YouTube details its first major update to Partner Program requirements in years, with the requirements going up quite dramatically. YouTube will now require: This new requirement kicks in on February 1, 2027, and will not impact those already qualified for the Partner…
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iOS 27 Wallet App Gets 7 New Features
Apple is making more of an effort to turn the iPhone into a physical wallet replacement in iOS 27, and there are several upgrades to the Wallet app. Pass Upgrades Apple upgraded airline boarding passes in the Wallet app with iOS 26, and in iOS 27, upgrades are coming to additional types of passes. Memberships, gift cards, loyalty cards, and rewards cards can use a bolder "Poster Generic" card style with full background images,…
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Apple official refurb store: Save hundreds on our top picks of the week
The official Apple Certified Refurbished Store is a particularly compelling resource for landing great offers on iPhone, MacBook, Studio Display, Apple TV, and even accessories. This is not some guy in his basement shilling iPhones that fell off a truck at a discount, or some third-party selling refurbs of questionable quality, but rather, units with an official Cupertino seal of approval that have passed Apple’s “rigorous refurbishment process” and, perhaps most importantly, often times…
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Smartphones
Google’s base Pixel 11 probably won’t have ‘HiLight’ but will actually have enough RAM
With just hours left to go for Google’s Pixel 11 launch event, details keep on leaking out, with some clarification around the base Pixel 11 now making its way online. One of the few new features coming with the Pixel 11 series is “HiLight,” which was previously known as “Pixel Glow.” The rear-facing LED has leaked on multiple occasions at this point, though functionality seems limited. Now, it’s also a bit more clear that…
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NYC Mayor Mamdani announces support for the Delivery Protection Act
Amazon, on the other hand, is fighting the measure to stop use of contractors for last-mile delivery. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is throwing his office's support behind a measure to change last-mile delivery practices. The Delivery Protection Act was introduced several months ago in the major metropolis' City Council. Many companies that do high-volume deliveries, most notably Amazon, rely on contractors rather than employees to take packages on the final legs of…
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Cybersécurité
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this means breaking out of their cybersecurity “sandbox” protections and infiltrating another’s network. (Short of that, they’ll use social engineering and manipulation.) Even so, a news story over the weekend about an Australian…
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Meta’s latest AI model wants to live on your PC
TL;DR Meta’s Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter AI model designed to run locally on a Mac or PC. It focuses on agentic AI, with the ability to code, use tools, handle multi-step tasks, and recover from errors. The model is available now on Hugging Face, with support for popular local AI tools coming soon. Most modern, capable AI models rely on cloud computing to give you fast and reliable responses — your prompt and…
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Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
Social media scuttlebutt about Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht failing to assist stranded boaters off the coast of Alaska was partly corroborated by ship-tracking data—and eventually prompted responses from both the US Coast Guard and a spokesperson for Zuckerberg. The incident was made public when Michael Love, a passenger aboard the replica steamship Wilderness Legacy during an Alaska cruise, posted about it on the social media platform Bluesky. The ship detoured to rescue a…
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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI researchers in the world. I was hosting roundtable interviews and speaking at a media training for a convening of…
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Samsung might give you dark-themed icons to go with dark mode
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Samsung is going full steam ahead with its next major update. Last week, a build for One UI 9.5 was spotted on Samsung’s test servers. Fast forward a few days, and the topic of One UI 9.5 is coming up once again. This time, it’s for a feature that could be included in the rollout. According to SammyGuru, version 1.3.07.3791 of the…
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Galaxy S26 FE specs leak alongside a higher price tag
Ahead of its launch that will likely happen next month, Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE has had its full specs leak alongside a higher price tag for the device that exists solely to be more affordable. WinFuture has obtained a full list of specs for the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE, and it’s pretty unremarkable, with roughly the same list as last year’s release. Exynos 2500, 8GB of RAM, 128/256GB of storage, 6.7-inch AMOLED display at…
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The Minimal Phone 2 trades E Ink for OLED and somehow keeps its soul
What you need to know The Minimal Phone 2 swaps the original’s E Ink panel for a 3.92-inch 90Hz AMOLED display. You still get the physical keyboard, now upgraded with backlighting, remappable shortcuts, and metal dome switches. A curved aluminum body replaces the original’s boxy shell, while the front camera moves above the display. The company that built a phone around making screens deliberately boring just gave its sequel a gorgeous OLED panel. Yes,…
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Gemini’s Neural Expressive overlay is starting to show up on more and more watches
TL;DR Gemini’s visual Neural Expressive update is now available on at least some Wear OS devices outside the Pixel Watch line. Our own Tushar Mehta is seeing Neural Expressive on his Galaxy Watch Ultra running Wear OS 6. Gemini Intelligence features for Wear OS are still forthcoming. When Google announced its Wear OS 7 update, it teased an update to the wearable Gemini app that’ll introduce a new design language the company is calling…
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Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow
Bluesky is giving you another way to control your feeds. Bluesky is giving you another way to control your feeds. Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seeing reposts from that one person who clogs up your feed with reposts of things you don’t care about. If you follow me, I may be…
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iOS 27 Beta 5 Brings New Icons for Siri, Safari, Settings and More
In the fifth beta of iOS 27, Apple is continuing to make design tweaks. There are updated Liquid Glass icons for Safari, the Siri app, Settings, Remote, App Store, and Preview. The Safari icon is a brighter blue with more detailed compass lines and arrows, while the Siri icon looks more like the actual Siri bubble that's displayed when Siri is activated. The App Store app icon is more translucent so you can better…
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Costco’s great Switch 2 console bundle includes over $100 in free stuff
The cost of the Nintendo Switch 2 is going up by $50 on September 1st, 2026, resulting in a $499.99 price tag for just the console. We’re just weeks away, but Costco is offering a fantastic $499.99 bundle for its members that includes a Nintendo Switch 2, a 256GB microSD Express card (usually $59), and a one year subscription to Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack tier, which normally costs $49.99 per year. That’s over…
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Kuo pours water on rumor of $1B Apple chip stockpile at TSMC
Market rumors claim TSMC is holding onto a billion-dollar stockpile of Apple chips due to not having enough memory to complete packaging. However, a prominent analyst doubts it to be the case. The persisting memory supply crisis has caused problems with the supply chain, in both sourcing chips for products and in paying high prices for them too. While there is certainly a crisis at hand, not every major supply chain-related claim will be…
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Latest iOS 27 Beta Expands Siri AI Voice Customization
With the fifth beta of iOS 27, Apple has expanded the voice customization options for Siri AI. Pace and Expressivity can now be adjusted for more of the available voice options instead of just the two American voices. There are seven American voice options and four British voices to choose from, all of which can be customized with different Pace and Expressivity settings. Pace changes talking speed, while expressivity changes emphasis. Siri AI voice…
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Actualité : Google Drive pour ordinateur ne sauvegarde plus vos photos vers Google Photos
Depuis ce 10 août, l'application Google Drive pour ordinateur ne prend plus en charge l'envoi automatique de dossiers locaux vers Google Photos. Ceux qui comptaient sur cette fonction pour mettre à l'abri leurs clichés stockés sur leur PC ou leur Mac vont donc devoir revoir leur organisation. Le message affiché sur la page d'assistance officielle de Google ne laisse d'ailleurs aucune place au doute. "Important : Google Drive pour ordinateur met fin à la…
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YouTube is making it harder for creators to start getting a cut of ad revenue
New partners will now need twice the number of watch hours or Shorts views in order to qualify. YouTube could soon become a less viable earning source for new content creators. The platform just announced updated rules for monetization via its YouTube Partner Program and, well, it's not the best news. New content creators will need to show some impressive metrics in order to qualify for the partner program. Starting on February 1, users…
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Une fusée chinoise explose en plein vol 85 secondes après son décollage
Recevez tous les soirs un résumé de l’actu importante avec Le Récap’ La séquence est aussi spectaculaire que violente. Ce lundi 10 août 2026, la Chine organisait le tir d’une fusée Longue Marche 7A depuis le centre spatial de Wenchang, sur l’île de Hainan. Mais 85 secondes après l’envol, l’ascension s’est arrêtée net : une violente explosion a réduit le lanceur en une pluie de débris incandescents. Comme le montrent les images stupéfiantes relayées…
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