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ask maps can now put your pad kee mao in the cart before you leave the office The company would prefer you never close Google Maps. That's the underlying pitch behind today's batch of Ask Maps announcements, and the food ordering piece is the clearest sign of how hard Google intends to lean on the idea.

Ask Maps Can Now Put Your food in the Cart Before You Leave the Office

researchers apples icloud private relay can still expose your real ip psa Private Relay has one job: stop the websites you open in Safari from learning your actual location. According to researchers, it doesn't do that job dependably.

Researchers: Apple’s iCloud+ Private Relay Can Still Expose Your Real IP [PSA]

streamings next experiment after two rounds of price hikes disney and netflix are weighing free tiers Since 2024, Disney has pushed up the cost of its US streaming products on two separate occasions. October's increase was the latest, tacking on $2 a month to the ad-supported plans and $3 a month to the ad-free ones. Netflix also went to the well twice over that period, its most recent move coming in March: an extra $1 a month for ads plans and $2 a month for the ones without.

Streaming’s next experiment: after two rounds of price hikes, Disney and Netflix are weighing free tiers

starlink dishes as cell towers spacex sets its sights on t mobile att and verizon subscribers The idea most likely to rattle America's Big 3 wireless carriers has nothing to do with orbit. It starts with a cellular base station strapped to a Starlink dish sitting on someone's rooftop.

Starlink Dishes as Cell Towers: SpaceX Sets Its Sights on T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon Subscribers

googles pixel 11 glowing dot has a real name hilight and it sits on the rear The last genuine hardware shift Google made to the Pixel was a ring of magnets. This time around, it's a light.

Google’s Pixel 11 glowing dot has a real name — HiLight — and it sits on the rear

eu ai labeling law is now live and breaking it can cost 15 million Since Aug. 2, a chatbot designed to leave you thinking you're speaking with a human has been illegal in 27 countries. The same goes for a synthetic video of a politician that carries no label. The European Union's transparency rules for AI are now both in force and enforceable, and it's the penalties bolted onto them that caught the industry's attention.

EU AI labeling law is now live — and breaking it can cost €15 million

using your phone while its plugged in wont destroy the battery heres why Try this: game on your phone while it's charging, pull the cable after an hour, and look at the percentage. Odds are it hasn't climbed much. Nothing is wrong with your cable, and your battery isn't dying. That's bypass charging doing precisely the job it was designed for.

Using your phone while it’s plugged in won’t destroy the battery — here’s why

memory chip crunch catches up to apples macbook air Head to Apple's store to order a MacBook Air today, and the checkout screen delivers the verdict long before any analyst weighs in. Ship dates on most configurations land in the second half of August. A few push into September.

Memory Chip Crunch Catches Up to Apple’s MacBook Air

snapchat pulls the plug on fully ai made videos in spotlight updated Most platforms have spent the past year tiptoeing around the question. Snapchat just answered it: a video built entirely by AI is no longer eligible for recommendation in Spotlight.

Snapchat Pulls the Plug on Fully AI-Made Videos in Spotlight [Updated]

apple reclaims the most valuable company title from nvidia by doing almost nothing The world's most valuable publicly traded company is Apple once again, and the route it took to the top involved doing less than any of its rivals.

Apple Reclaims the Most-Valuable-Company Title From Nvidia — By Doing Almost Nothing