Apple’s Screen Time updates are too little, too late
…When you search “parental controls” in Settings, nothing shows up. I am disappointed Apple didn’t make Screen Time a separate app; I think that would improve ease of use, but…
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Apple announces iPadOS 27
…a price drop or restock in an online store, for example. Siri AI will also power improvements to Apple’s Shortcuts app to make it more user-friendly. Apple’s not taking…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…While it has improved in recent months, it still feels like it was designed with a mouse and keyboard in mind rather than a controller. Former Xbox chief Phil Spencer admitted in…
Apple is embracing the fantasy of AI photo editing
…Gemini or Google’s AI-powered Search chatbot and asking if they carry the watermark. This is not exactly intuitive, but it gives users some control over checking the authenticity of images…
WWDC 2025
…Adding “transparency and shine effects in all of Apple’s tool bars, in-app interfaces and controls,” he says it sets the stage for next year’s “Glasswing” iPhone design with curved…
Apple’s smart home camera service is starting to impress me
Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video service is getting in on the Apple Intelligence party to bring more descriptive alerts from your connected cameras and let you search footage using natural language. The…
Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
…After manually searching through Trip Advisor images, my editor found a match in a user review album that confirms Microsoft’s ad was correct in pinpointing Rio Secreto. Since the video depicted…
The secret to Roku’s success: not being cool
…Doing user research for the cable company was an eye-opener. “I’d go to people’s homes,” he recalls. “Some people would have remote controls where they taped over the buttons…
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…They made their own search engine worse. In the DOJ case last year, we saw that in 2019, they deliberately worsened the search engine so that you would have to search more…
I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop
…But that watermark may be omitted for ChatGPT Pro users on Sora.com, OpenAI spokesperson Leah Anise told The Verge in a statement on Wednesday. Screen recording also isn’t supposed to…