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Apple is working on iOS 18 — the successor to the company’s latest iPhone operating system (OS) update that rolled out to eligible models last month — and the next major OS upgrade could come with notable AI upgrades, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his weekly Power On newsletter published earlier this week, Gurman […]

Jon Porter / The Verge: Spotify launches online courses from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, and others, covering music, business, and more, as an experiment in the UK on mobile and desktop  —  Spotify’s UK users are getting access to a fourth category of content to sit alongside its existing library of songs, podcasts and audiobooks: online

The Fallout TV series finally has a release date. In a tweet, Amazon Prime Video confirmed that the live-action adaptation of the eponymous Bethesda video game franchise will premiere April 12, 2024, exclusively on the streamer. The news comes in celebration of the annual Fallout Day — October 23 — which marks the day when

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: How Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters, who is obsessed with data, and Ted Sarandos, who loves working with talent, overcame differences to make the partnership work  —  Hollywood czar Ted Sarandos and data-obsessed techie Greg Peters have gotten the streamer back on track Source link

India’s online gaming industry has received show-cause notices amounting to Rs. 1 lakh crore say sources. The notices come even as the industry has raised concerns on the applicable GST Rates. The government has asserted that a 28 percent GST rate should have been in place starting from October 1, as per the law. In

Matthew Perrone / Associated Press: A look at the rise of free-to-use AI chatbots claiming to help with teens’ mental health struggles, as experts disagree about whether the chatbots are effective  —  Download the mental health chatbot Earkick and you’re greeted by a bandana-wearing panda who could easily fit into a kids’ cartoon. Source link

Mission: Impossible 8 has been delayed by nearly a year. Paramount Pictures and Skydance have pushed the highly anticipated Tom Cruise-led spy-thriller to May 23, 2025, from its original release date of June 28, 2024. The move is attributed to the ongoing actors’ strike, which has caused the film and several other major studios to

Financial Times: AliExpress and Temu were the fastest-growing ecommerce apps in South Korea in 2023; Nomura: Chinese websites account for only ~2% of South Korean ecommerce GMV  —  AliExpress and Temu are undercutting domestic competition and US rivals in world’s fourth-largest online shopping market Source link

WhatsApp rolled out the feature to pin messages in individual as well as group chats in December 2023. The pinned messages would appear at the top of the chat, right below the name and image of the person or the group. Users could only, however, pin a single message within one chat. Earlier this month,

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Sources: iOS 18 will give iPhone users greater control over Home Screen app arrangement, including the ability to create blank spaces, rows, and columns  —  iOS 18 will give iPhone users greater control over Home Screen app icon arrangement, according to sources familiar with the matter. Source link