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The Apple TV streaming service has announced a partnership with IMAX to show some of this year’s F1 races at the biggest screens in the United States. Apple TV has the rights to show Formula 1 in the United States, starting with the forthcoming 2026 season – and it won’t charge anything more beyond the Apple TV subscription fee. However, if F1 super fans would like a little something more immersive, five races will be shown at IMAX across the country. The races are Silverstone, Miami, Monaco, Monza and Austin to be specific. Apple is hot on F1 at the…
In an interview with The Times this week, Siminoff explained that he understands people’s concerns and that “maybe people were ‘triggered’ by an image in the ad that showed blue rings radiating out from suburban homes. There will be fewer maps in any future ads, he said.”Graphics in ads are not the problem. The problem is the potential for Ring’s vast network of AI-powered camera technology to be turned into a surveillance tool, one accessible to law enforcement and capable of creating a record of people’s movements that’s searchable by AI (which itself raises concerns around reliability and hallucination). Ring…
Amazon-owned smart home company Ring is facing more allegations of illicit surveillance after internal emails revealed plans for the Search Party feature to go beyond the cutesy, public-facing preface of finding lost dogs. Emails unearthed by 404 Media purportedly reveal the company’s founder and CEO telling staff about plans to expand Search Party to help Ring “zero out crime in neighbourhoods.” And, perhaps the odd bit of vandalism and lawn soiling, we don’t think our four legged friends are the ones committing the crimes. It suggests the company may be planning to use this feature to surveil humans. “I believe…
Packing multiple charging adapters can quickly eat up space, which is why an all-in-one travel adapter like the Baseus EnerCore CG11 makes for a good investment. The travel-friendly accessory works in most countries and lets you charge several devices at once, and right now, Amazon is offering it for $24.95 ($45 off) — its lowest price to date — when you use promo code G76S8NVM at checkout.Baseus’ versatile adapter features four sliding plug types — Type A, Type C, Type G, and Type I — which retract when not in use, making it easy to pack. Together, they support outlets…
Meta is reviving plans to launch a smartwatch and it could come this year, according to a new report. The Information’s sources says the Facebook parent company will release an AI-powered timepiece to go up against the Apple Watch and others in the market. According to the report ($), the device said to be codenamed Malibu 2, will have a focus on health tracking as well as the integration with Meta AI. Details are still thin on the ground right now. This isn’t the first we’ve heard of a Meta smartwatch as the company was initially rumoured to be releasing…
West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of allowing the distribution and storage of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in iCloud. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey claims that by abandoning a CSAM detection system in favor of end-to-end encryption, iCloud has become a “secure frictionless avenue for the possession, protection, and distribution [of] CSAM,” violating the state’s consumer protection laws.Now, West Virginia alleges Apple “knowingly and intentionally designed its products with deliberate indifference to the highly preventable harms.” McCuskey believes other states could take legal action against Apple as…
Even at the world’s biggest sporting event, surprises happen, and there have been a fair few of them at Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics this year. The most recent surprise, and the cutest one, has four legs. During the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint, an unexpected athlete burst onto the course. Nazgûl, a wolfdog (presumably named after the dark riders from The Lord of the Rings), sprinted alongside competitors before charging straight over the finish line. And just like every human competitor, his finish was officially recorded. Omega’s Scan’O’Vision Ultimate photofinish camera – the same system used to separate Olympic…
GE has announced two new versions of its popular Opal nugget ice machines with smaller footprints that take up less counter space, and more affordable price tags. Like GE’s larger and pricier Opal 2.0 Ultra, the two new machines make nugget ice — frequently also referred to as chewable ice, or pellet ice — by freezing layers of ice flakes producing nuggets that are easier to chew with more surface area to cool drinks faster.Previously only available in restaurants, GE launched its first Opal machine for making ice nuggets at home back in 2015. Recent models, like the Opal 2.0…
Operating systems don’t stand still. Last year, I rounded up the best iOS 26 tips, best iPadOS 26 tips and best macOS 26 Tahoe tips. Those remain solid starting points. But Apple’s kept tinkering, refining and occasionally surprising us since then. So here are ten of the best new features to land in iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 over the past couple of months – and how to use them. Set a Reminders alarm Standard notifications are fine for ‘buy milk’. Less so for an urgent deadline about to fly past your ears. So open Reminders, tap or click a reminder’s info button, then…
Generally speaking, arcane and mostly unenforced FCC rules are not the province of late night talk shows. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seems intent on changing that, though; not long after causing a ruckus that briefly took Jimmy Kimmel off the air, his vague threats appear to have been enough to convince CBS to tell Stephen Colbert not to air an interview. Which, of course, became a whole thing.On this episode of The Vergecast (which we recorded and published a day early both because of the news and because Nilay has a vacation to go on), David and Nilay open the…
Both of Abxylute’s new controllers have bigger, more comfortable grips than Joy-Cons offer, along with longer-lasting Hall effect joysticks. I tested a functioning prototype of the N6, and it has almost everything that people might be looking for to level up their gaming experience: full-size sticks, vibration, motion controls, customizable back paddles, and turbo mode for spamming commands.What the N6 is going for isn’t anything new. CRKD popularized the slide-in form factor with the original Switch. It adds thick grips to your console to make it look and feel more like a Steam Deck. For as much as it added…
Today on Decoder we’re going to talk about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers.The vast majority of these people are concentrated into a small number of hugely valuable, extremely fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nowadays, such companies are paying some of the highest salaries in the history of the tech industry to poach researchers from one another.It feels like every time one of these AI researchers leaves one company for another, they tell us exactly why. Sometimes they’re simply resigning to go be a poet.…