Category: Tech

For the first time, Apple has published an App Store transparency report. You can read the full two-page document on the company’s website. It reveals several interesting tidbits about the App Store, including the fact that, as of 2022, there were 1,783,232 apps on the storefront. In the document, first spotted by 9to5Mac (via The Verge ), Apple also reveals that it reviewed 6,101,913 submissions last year (submissions can include updates to existing apps, not just new releases). Of those, it rejected 1,679,694. Surprisingly, the majority of submissions, more than 1 million, didn’t make it to the App Store […]

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Since ChatGPT debuted in November, hundreds of millions of people have experimented with the online chatbot, which can answer questions, write poetry, draft emails and riff on almost any topic from inside a web browser. On Thursday, OpenAI , the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind ChatGPT, unveiled a new version of the chatbot for the iPhone, hoping to build on its enormous popularity. Unlike the browser-based version of ChatGPT, the smartphone app responds to voice commands, operating a bit like Apple’s Siri digital assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. The app does not answer with voice, but generates responses in […]

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Mark Zuckerberg bet his empire on his vision of a globe-spanning virtual reality. The CEO of the social media giant has spent billions on his virtual reality dream – and still no one understands the idea. Now the world’s richest firm could change the game In Meta’s quarterly earnings call in April, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was on the defensive. The metaverse, the vision of a globe-spanning virtual reality that he had literally bet his multibillion-dollar empire on creating, had been usurped as the new hot thing by the growing hype around artificial intelligence (AI). Critics had even noticed […]

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Siri Apple has been paying attention to the rise of ChatGPT , Google Bard and other similar tools: so far this month the company has posted 28 job opportunities in the field of AI, which gives us a clear indication that Apple is ready to invest in this technology. As spotted by 9to5Mac , one of the listings is for a Visual Generative Modeling Research Engineer. The role will be part of “a group that will shape the way generative AI technologies transform Apple’s mobile computing platforms”, the description says. That sounds fairly ambitious to us. It’s not clear […]

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AI is “huge,” but Apple will remain careful folding it into products, CEO Tim Cook said Thursday. Cook said Apple has already been incorporating AI technology into some of its products. His reticence stands in contrast to the recent AI-focused earnings calls of some tech competitors. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the AI wave sweeping tech is “huge,” though he sounded a note of caution about how the technology would be deployed at his company. “It’s very important to be deliberate and thoughtful on how you approach these things,” Cook said during the company’s earnings call Thursday. Cook’s […]

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The Nintendo Wii, one of the best-selling video game consoles of all time, is the latest device to receive the Hackintosh treatment by installing Mac OS 9.2.2 natively. In a new video uploaded to Michael MJD, a tech history channel on YouTube, Mac OS 9.2.2 is installed natively on a Nintendo Wii from 2007. In the video, Mac OS runs pretty well on the Wii after quite a bit of tinkering. Michael MJD is able to fix sound issues and graphical issues to showcase QuickTime 5 on the video game console – something we could only have dreamt of […]

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Xbox gamers wishing to know more about the performance they can expect when playing the new Redfall game on the Xbox Series X|S console . Will be pleased to know that the team over at Digital Foundry have published a new video today providing just that showing more detail on some of the games bigger issues and possibly unfulfilled potential. Redfall is also available to play on PC and PlayStation platforms. Redfall is an open-world, single player and co-op first person shooter that has been designed and developed by the team at Arkane Austin, responsible for other great games […]

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Swiping and tapping on flat screens is something we’ve learned to deal with in smartphones, tablets and other touchscreen gizmos, but it doesn’t come close to the ease of typing on a hardware keyboard or playing a game with a physical controller. To that end, researchers Craig Shultz and Chris Harrison with the Future Interfaces Group (FIG) at Carnegie Mellon University have created a display that can protrude screen areas in different configurations. It’s a concept we’ve seen before , but this version is thinner, lighter and more versatile. FIG’s “Flat Panel Haptics” tech can be stacked under an […]

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For iPhone users stuck between Apple and Microsoft’s worlds, there’s good news that will help make jumping from one to the other a little easier. Microsoft has announced that it will roll out support for iMessages through the Phone Link app starting today. The update is available for Windows 11 users and allows you to send messages via your iPhone without touching the device. Phone Link uses Bluetooth to sync up with your iOS devices, which is how it’s worked with Android smartphones thus far. But for iPhone users, it’s a little more limited at launch: you can only […]

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New York, April 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Market.us forecasts that the 3D gaming console market will exceed USD 44.1 billion by 2032, up from its current value of USD 11.3 billion , with a projected CAGR of 15% between 2023 and 2032. The 3D gaming console market is rapidly expanding globally. These consoles provide users with an immersive gaming experience that makes them feel like they are part of this gaming world. Popular choices on the market include Sony PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift as well HTC Vive. The global 3D gaming console market is being led by several […]

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