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Instagram is going to let you tweak what its algorithm shows you on your main feed. With the Your Algorithm feature, “you can now see the topics we think you’re interested in, and change them, across all the major parts of Instagram,” according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. Right now, the feature will only surface topics, but Instagram is working on “supporting requests for people, different moods or vibes, content types, and more.”The company has been slowly giving users more agency over some algorithms on Instagram, having already launched the Your Algorithm feature for your Reels feed and the Explore…

In the blog post, Smith takes a conciliatory tone: Of course young people are reacting this way. It’s the wake-up call for the adults in the room!“Graduating students who grimace or even boo at references to AI are telling us what we need to hear, that it’s time once again to raise the bar,” Smith writes. “That has been a frequent refrain from students for decades. The key is always to channel uncertainty into purposeful steps that build a better future.”But in substance, the blog post is similar to the line of reasoning that have elicited the boos in the…

If you’ve uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won’t admit it right now.Their lawsuit is based on the unsupported hypothesis that Google trained on their specific works. Even accepting their untested allegations as fact, the Complaint cannot stand. Plaintiffs each granted YouTube, and Google — which provides the service—a broad license to use the uploaded content. That license, present in YouTube’s Terms of Service, authorized the conduct alleged in the Complaint.This is standard hedging for a legal filing: “you can’t prove we did it, and…

Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new “Search Services History” setting.Google says it will use your Search Services History to “provide, develop, and improve its services,” including its AI models, as well as offer personalized suggestions and ads if you have the new “Personalized Recommendations” setting switched on. These two settings will now be separate from Google’s Web & App Activity option, which previously included search-related interactions and some toggles…

Mac fans who’ve been desperate for the rumoured touchscreen MacBook Ultra laptop to arrive on the scene – perhaps as soon as this year – will take heart from Apple’s announcement of macOS 27 Golden Gate this week. As MacRumors points out, macOS 27 carries some pretty promising hints that touch capacity is finally being integrated into the desktop operating system following a decade of Apple fiercely resisting the idea of a touchscreen Mac. The first of those hints has seen Apple add touch input to Sidecar directly. If you’re unfamiliar, Sidecar is a handy display extending feature that enables…

Apple’s head of software engineering, Craig Federighi, says that the revamped Siri should not be seen as a separate chatbot for your iPhone but instead an integral part of Apple’s operating systems and Apple Intelligence. My initial play with the new Siri shows that it is indeed deeply integrated and can work alongside the apps you use every day, but there were inevitably some limitations with the early beta version that I tried. Federighi made the ‘not a chatbot’ declaration during a tech talk at Apple’s WWDC26 developer conference in Cupertino, California. At the event he was joined by Siri…

Apple’s upcoming watchOS 27 update will bring Siri AI and other exciting features to the Apple Watch Series 9 and newer Apple Watch models. If you’re contemplating an upgrade, all colorways of the GPS-enabled 42mm Apple Watch Series 11 — the latest model — are on sale for $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Target, matching its best price so far. You can customize your look by picking up a discounted Apple Watch band at Woot, starting at $14.99 ($35 off).Apple’s Series 11 watch is a solid upgrade, especially for those who are still using an Apple Watch Series…

Following the launch of the surprisingly popular Kobo Remote, Boox has released its own device to ease the burden of reaching for an e-reader’s touchscreen that’s an arm’s length away. The Tappy isn’t Boox’s first page-turning remote, but its design takes a much different approach to the company’s slim but boring B.T. Remoter. The Tappy feels like a mashup of wireless remotes, fidget toys, and macro pads, with a healthy dash of retro charm.The Tappy is much smaller than the Kobo Remote, but Kobo’s is more comfortable to hold.While the Kobo Remote looks like a streaming dongle accessory with a…

Sky is making streaming the World Cup less fraught with the danger of spoilers, for football fans who are streaming the action rather than watching through a dish or antenna. The new Real Time feature announced for Sky Glass and Sky Stream earlier this week reduces the inherent delay between live action and it appearing on the display, which is worsened when streaming content due to the need to encode video in a different way. As such, Real Time offers new versions of the BBC One HD, ITV 1 HD and ITV 4 HD that’ll show the games. Sky says…

Meta has been ordered by the European Commission to restore free WhatsApp access for chatbots made by rival AI providers while the regulator finishes its antitrust investigation. The rare interim measure announced on Tuesday was deemed necessary “to prevent serious and irreparable damage to competition” in the general-purpose AI assistant market.This is only the second time that the EU has used the emergency power in more than 20 years, Politico reports. It follows the launch of a formal investigation in December 2025 into whether Meta was abusing its market dominance by banning third-party AI chatbots from its WhatsApp messaging platform.…

So far, I don’t think I actually prefer the Luna Ultra to my Osmo Pocket 3! The second lens with 6x lossless zoom and wireless detachable touchscreen are very nice to have, letting me capture my daughter’s ballet recital and my dad’s wedding ceremony without leaving my seat. I could read the notes at my kid’s piano lesson from across the room at 12x zoom unlike the DJI.But the Luna’s nowhere near as effortless to use. It’s not as compact and easy to grip, it’s so dang annoying to have to un-navigate a menu after you change each setting (you…

The new Siri AI features unveiled by Apple at WWDC will not be fully supported by the standard iPhone 17 models, which was released less than a year ago. Two of the key Siri AI features revealed during Monday’s keynotes address have a system requirement of 12GB of RAM, Apple confirmed. That means only the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air models from 2025 can handle the load. The standard iPhone 17 only has 8GB of RAM. No model released before that, Pro or otherwise, has more. The two features in question are surprising as, in…