GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Apple's Rivals Are Betting Big on AI, but Tim Cook Doesn't Need to Worry

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 09:00:00

There's a battle over the future of computing. Tech giants, like Meta and OpenAI, are racing to develop a version of AI that's almost sci-fi levels of sentience, known as superintelligence. Obscene salaries are being thrown around to poach top AI engineers -- some even with reported offers of $100 million signing bonuses. Meanwhile, billions of dollars are spent to acquire companies with no products. The goal? To create an AI gadget so good that it can dethrone the iPhone. That's at least the

Topics: ai apple ceo cook iphone

Shop Amazon

Openvibe combines news and social media in one app

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-13 10:00:00

Openvibe, an app that allows you to follow open social networks like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr in one place, is now expanding its functionality so you can follow your favorite news sites and blogs, too. To do so, the startup is adding support for RSS (aka Really Simple Syndication or news feeds), an open standard that allows you to subscribe to automatic updates from websites, like new articles or blog posts. The addition makes Openvibe more useful for keeping up with your interests

Topics: app disrupt open openvibe rss

Shop Amazon

Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:25:12

Congrats to @Fastmail , the only provider @Apple allows to send push notifications to the iOS Mail app. No announcement. No documentation. No access for anyone else. Just quiet favoritism. We genuinely like @Fastmail . We’re happy for them. But @Apple has chosen a winner in private, giving one provider a major advantage and refusing the same to everyone else. We’ve tried to talk. @Apple just stops responding once they realize what we’re asking. Our customers want answers, and unlike Apple, we do

Topics: apple fastmail just provider quiet

Shop Amazon

Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-13 23:59:19

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play Store (with over 952,000 reviews with an average of 4.9/5 rating) and received nearly 136,000 ratings on Apple's App St

Topics: app lens microsoft scans users

Shop Amazon

Microsoft 365 apps to soon block file access via FPRPC by default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:52:47

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft 365 apps for Windows will start blocking access to files via the insecure FPRPC legacy authentication protocol by default starting late August. These changes apply only to Microsoft 365 apps for Windows and will not affect Microsoft Teams users across Windows, Mac, web, iOS, or Android. "Microsoft 365 apps will block insecure file open protocols like FPRPC by default starting version 2508, with new Trust Center settings to manage these protocols," the

Topics: 365 apps fprpc microsoft protocol

Shop Amazon

This $200 Android phone beats competing Motorola and Samsung models in a unique way

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-12-13 22:30:18

TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G ZDNET's key takeaways TCL's 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G is on sale on Amazon for $222. It has a unique display, and a feature set that promotes minimalism and digital well-being. I just wish the camera system and general performance were better. $249.99 at Amazon Being glued to your smartphone's screen all day can do a number on your eyes, and I definitely can feel it. TCL's Nxtpaper technology offers a paper-like screen that's made for tired eyes like mine. The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper

Topics: camera like mode nxtpaper tcl

Shop Amazon

The best smartphones without AI features in 2025: Expert tested and recommended

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-12-14 00:00:18

These days, it feels like AI and machine learning algorithms are being stuffed into every device, whether it makes sense to do so or not. And with almost every major brand announcing that AI will be a standard feature in new releases going forward, you may be looking for a way to opt out or avoid it entirely. Thankfully, there are still plenty of options on the market for phones that don't force AI as an integral feature; you can even find a few "dumb" phones if you're thinking of a total digita

Topics: ai apple phone smartphone support

Shop Amazon

Window Activation

news.ycombinator.com Seth Richardson 2025-12-09 08:03:24

You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an application to bring its window to the front, it needs to make use of the XDG Activation protocol. A KWrite window that failed to activate and instead is weeping bitterly for attention in the task bar In essence, an application ca

Topics: activation application focus token window

Shop Amazon

iOS 26: Friends Can't Decide What to Eat? Here's How to Create a Poll in Messages

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 00:00:03

Apple released the second public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 7, and the beta brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more features to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. It also introduced a host of new features to Messages. One of the more useful features is the ability to create a poll in the messaging app. Group chats can be chaotic, and sometimes it feels like only a few people are talking. Creating a poll in a group chat is a nice way to let everyone voice their opinion on

Topics: choice messages option poll tap

Shop Amazon

Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-13 22:15:40

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue. Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming t

Topics: alternative apple browser engines individual

Shop Amazon

Sony insists Xperia phones are ‘very important’ to it

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-14 00:17:57

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan. Once upon a time, Xperia mattered to Sony because it still held a healthy chunk of Japan’s phone market. Th

Topics: important japan phone sony xperia

Shop Amazon

The best Windows laptops for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 03:01:26

If you’ve held on to an aging Windows laptop for too long, it’s now a great time to upgrade. With all the hype around AI PCs, computer makers are rushing to release new designs featuring efficient new chips from Intel and AMD. And thanks to Microsoft’s Copilot+ initiative, which launched last year, we’re finally seeing decent notebooks powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, which are leading to better battery life and lighter designs. Whether you need a premium ultraportable, a powerful gami

Topics: 14 battery laptop life windows

Shop Amazon

Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-14 00:12:04

The launch of an Instagram feature that details users' geolocation data illicited backlash from social media users on Thursday. Meta debuted the Instagram Map tool on Wednesday, pitching the feature as way to "stay up-to-date with friends" by letting users share their "last active location." The tool is akin to Snapchat's Snap Map feature that lets people see where their friends are posting from. Although Meta said in a blog post that the feature's "location sharing is off unless you opt in,"

Topics: feature instagram location map said

Shop Amazon

A Linux terminal app for native Android development? Here's why I'm bullish

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-14 02:45:15

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal app that ran a full-blown, text-only Linux environment. This app is enabled via Android's developer options feature and makes it possible for users to run Linux commands (even SSH). From Google's perspective, that wasn't enough. Also: 5 Linux terminal app

Topics: android app apps linux terminal

Shop Amazon

Five iOS 26 features I already can't live without - and how to access them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-14 03:00:21

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple has been busy prepping iOS 26 for its likely debut in September. Until then, the iPhone's upcoming new OS has been accessible for anyone to try via a developer beta (now up to version 5) and the initial public beta. Though iOS 26 still has at least a month of tweaks before it's finalized, the beta flavors already provide a peek at what to expect. You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. Here's how to install it -- and which models support it. Also: The best MagSa

Topics: 26 app apple glass ios

Shop Amazon

DaVinci Resolve has new immersive tools for spatial video editing

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-14 10:35:42

Today, Blackmagic Design announced a major update to DaVinci Resolve Studio, with extended support for editing spatial videos captured with its immersive camera. Here’s what’s new. Last year, Blackmagic Design launched the URSA Cine Immersive camera, which it called “the world’s first commercial camera system designed to capture Apple Immersive Video.” With a double-lens system that records stereoscopic 3D videos, the camera was launched alongside an updated version of DaVinci Resolve that “le

Topics: apple davinci immersive resolve video

Shop Amazon

Apple Maps cycling directions expand to Hong Kong and Taiwan

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-14 15:21:32

When Apple first launched cycling directions on Apple Maps, the feature was limited to a handful of cities like New York and Beijing. Since then, Apple has gradually expanded coverage. Now, cycling directions are also available in Hong Kong and Taiwan. If you ride a bike to get around where you live, you know that some information is essential for route planning: are there bike paths? Bike lanes? Do they cover the entire route? What is the elevation along the way? Since the limited rollout in

Topics: apple bike cycling directions hong

Shop Amazon

Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-14 15:46:02

As promised last month, Apple today released four new titles to Apple Arcade, adding to the catalog of over 200 ad-free games available to subscribers. Here’s what’s new. Play-Doh World Play-Doh brings its magic to the digital space with Play-Doh World, allowing players to craft their own characters and watch them spring to life. From inventing wild zoo animals to styling outrageous salon hairdos, every corner of this colorful universe responds to the player’s creative whim. With dozens of int

Topics: apple arcade play players shogi

Shop Amazon

Apple’s F1 film helped drive Formula One Group’s top-speed revenue growth

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-14 15:46:32

The F1 movie isn’t just a hit for Apple. The Formula One Group credits Apple in part for its recent revenue boost. The Hollywood Reporter has the story: The company, which is owned by Liberty Media, saw a one-time revenue increase from the release of the film in late June, which contributed to the group’s 40 percent rise in revenue year-over-year to hit $1 billion. Executives quantified the impact of the movie on revenue as “as a mid-teens number for the quarter,” with other drivers including

Topics: apple f1 film movie revenue

Shop Amazon

The Bus Station That Didn't Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies

news.ycombinator.com Giuseppe Sollazzo 2025-12-12 16:00:40

“Data is multidisciplinary” is my mantra—it’s 2025, and I’ve now worked 20 years in every possible flavour of data—data visualization, open data advocacy, data pipelines in healthcare, data-driven national-scale services, AI innovation, and more. Whatever the application or project, my take on data literacy is the fundamental ability to challenge your own assumptions about the data you have or don’t, the appropriateness in using it, the ethics of your application, and ask yourself: is there a di

Topics: bus data dataset map use

Shop Amazon

How Tim Cook convinced Trump to drop made-in-USA iPhone — for now

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-14 20:47:07

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT WASHINGTON, DC August 6: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with CEO of Apple Tim Cook during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday August 6, 2025. Demetrius Freeman | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump has made clear that he wants Apple to make iPhones in the U.S. Apple CEO Tim Cook is doing what he can to appease the commander in chief, without making that ultimate concessio

Topics: apple billion chips said trump

Shop Amazon

The latest iPad Air is cheaper than ever

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-12-14 20:18:08

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air’s easier to carry, after all, and still powerful enough to handle everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And right now, the latest version of the Air is down to a new low price. The M3-powered 11-inch iPad Air with 128GB tablet is available for $449 ($150 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, Targ

Topics: air apple ipad powered tablet

Shop Amazon

How to use Instagram Map and set your location-sharing preferences

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-14 20:05:42

This week, Instagram introduced a new Snap Map-like feature called Instagram Map that lets U.S. users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content. If you decide to turn on your location on Instagram Map, your location only updates when you open the app or have it running in the background, meaning it doesn’t provide continuous, real-time location updates. This is different from Snap Map, which lets users choose whether their location is updated only w

Topics: feature instagram location map new

Shop Amazon

AppLovin CEO sees benefits from Apple-Epic fallout as stock pops on earnings

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-12-15 00:25:17

AppLovin shares resumed their historic rally on Thursday after the ad-tech company reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter. The stock popped 12% and is now up 35% for the year after soaring more than eightfold in 2024. Wall Street has piled into the company due to its growth from artificial intelligence technology that's given advertisers more ways to target users in mobile games. CEO Adam Foroughi suggested on the earnings call that another wave of growth is likely on

Topics: apple case company court foroughi

Shop Amazon

If you’re into K-pop, you’ll love Apple TV+’s next song battle competition

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-15 00:38:24

Apple TV+ is taking some of the biggest global artists to Seoul, where they will be joined by talented musicians for a very different music competition. Here are the details. KPOPPED premieres August 29 Recently, Apple TV+ released the trailer for KPOPPED, an eight-part music competition featuring Megan Three Stallion and PSY, and a lineup of popular guest artists ready for a bit of a K-pop twist. From Patti Labelle to the Spice Girls’ Mel B and Emma Bunton, from Vanilla Ice to Kesha and Boyz

Topics: apple kpopped pop tv watch

Shop Amazon

iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-15 05:12:43

Apple Maps has some compelling new features in iOS 26, but it seems there’s even more coming, as the beta now supports a powerful new feature that Apple never announced: natural language search with Apple Intelligence. Apple Maps gains AI-powered natural language search in iOS 26 Early last month, iOS 26 beta code revealed that Apple was working on adding natural language search to Maps. However, code leaks regularly expose features in development that may not ever ship. In this case though,

Topics: 26 apple ios maps search

Shop Amazon

Pick up Apple's AirPods Pro 2 while they're on sale for $169

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 22:19:11

Even a few years after launch, the AirPods Pro 2 remain some of the best wireless earbuds you can get — particularly if you primarily use other Apple devices on the daily. If you're looking to upgrade from an old pair or want a fresh set for the new school year, you can pick up the AirPods Pro 2 for $169 right now. That's 32 percent off their usual price and one of the best prices we've seen this year. Apple’s flagship AirPods were $100 off — a record-low $149 — during Prime Day, so we have see

Topics: 100 airpods apple best pro

Shop Amazon

Adam Mosseri says 'people are confused' about how the Instagram map works

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-15 05:47:40

Yesterday, Meta introduced a new map feature that's almost identical to Snapchat's Snap Map. The feature has quickly sparked a backlash, though, and not just because it's yet another example of Instagram ripping off a Snapchat feature. While the map requires users to opt-in to share their location, many users were surprised and alarmed to see that their Instagram map was already populated with the locations of some accounts when it launched. That's because the map automatically pulls in locatio

Topics: advertisement instagram location map tagged

Shop Amazon

Italy's pizza detectives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 12:17:26

As pizza's popularity spreads around the world, a group of top-secret agents are travelling the globe on espionage missions to determine what "real" pizza is. On a sweltering day bleached by the fearsome southern Italian sun, a group of international travellers have gathered a stone's throw from Naples' San Gennaro catacombs, named for the city's patron saint. But these visitors aren't here to venerate the ancient martyr; they've come in service of something equally important to the city's ide

Topics: city group italian neapolitan pizza

Shop Amazon

This Already-Approved Drug Could Stop Food Allergies’ Worst Reactions

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-15 05:00:01

Food allergies suck. Beyond placing onerous limits on your diet, their health impacts can totally derail your life, and scientists have been scrambling for years to try and find better, more lasting treatments for these conditions’ worst effects. Now, a pair of papers published today in the journal Science unlock crucial new insights into what goes on in the body when anaphylaxis occurs and indicate how an existing medication could one day help prevent these life-threatening allergic reactions.

Topics: anaphylaxis food gut mice people

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Apple's Rivals Are Betting Big on AI, but Tim Cook Doesn't Need to Worry

Openvibe combines news and social media in one app

Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail

Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

Microsoft 365 apps to soon block file access via FPRPC by default

This $200 Android phone beats competing Motorola and Samsung models in a unique way

The best smartphones without AI features in 2025: Expert tested and recommended

Window Activation

iOS 26: Friends Can't Decide What to Eat? Here's How to Create a Poll in Messages

Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

Sony insists Xperia phones are ‘very important’ to it

The best Windows laptops for 2025

Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

A Linux terminal app for native Android development? Here's why I'm bullish

Five iOS 26 features I already can't live without - and how to access them

DaVinci Resolve has new immersive tools for spatial video editing

Apple Maps cycling directions expand to Hong Kong and Taiwan

Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

Apple’s F1 film helped drive Formula One Group’s top-speed revenue growth

The Bus Station That Didn't Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies

How Tim Cook convinced Trump to drop made-in-USA iPhone — for now

The latest iPad Air is cheaper than ever

How to use Instagram Map and set your location-sharing preferences

AppLovin CEO sees benefits from Apple-Epic fallout as stock pops on earnings

If you’re into K-pop, you’ll love Apple TV+’s next song battle competition

iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

Pick up Apple's AirPods Pro 2 while they're on sale for $169

Adam Mosseri says 'people are confused' about how the Instagram map works

Italy's pizza detectives

This Already-Approved Drug Could Stop Food Allergies’ Worst Reactions

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising