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Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker's feature-packed stab at AI integration into its devices, appears to be a total dud with buyers

Artificial Intelligence

iPhone Owners Extremely Unimpressed With Apple Intelligence AI

By Frank Landymore

Apple's Apple Intelligence AI feature incorrectly summarized a report from BBC News by making it sound like Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple AI Tells Users Luigi Mangione Has Shot Himself

By Frank Landymore

In some cases, Apple's new AI summaries of iPhone messages might not be ideal. Exhibit A: the breakup text.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s New AI Summarized a Series of Breakup Texts in the Most Brutal Way Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The bug affects iPhones running the latest version of iOS 17, and causes the home screen app to abruptly crash.

Typing These Four Characters Causes iPhones to Crash

By Frank Landymore

A giant dataset of YouTube subtitles has been used to train AI without the permission of the creators whose work was scraped.

YouTubers Furious After Apple and Anthropic Steal Their Data to Train AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to The Information, Apple has suspended work on the next Vision Pro and is looking for ways to cut costs for a cheaper model.

Virtual Reality

Apple Reportedly Gives Up on Next-Gen Apple Vision Pro Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese electronics corporation TDK says its new solid state batteries will replace the coin sized batteries found in wearable electronics.

Apple Battery Supplier Working on New Battery Material With 100 Times the Energy Density of Current Tech

By Frank Landymore

According to Bloomberg, neither party expects a direct boost in revenues from their partnership that is nonetheless significant.

It Turns Out Apple Is Only Paying OpenAI in Exposure

By Frank Landymore

In a new Washington Post interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that he's not "100 percent" sure the company's AI will stop lying.

Artificial Intelligence

Tim Cook Admits Apple May Never Be Able to Make Its AI Stop Lying

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Threatens to Seize iPhones and Store Them in a Faraday Cage at His Companies

Elon Musk Threatens to Seize iPhones and Store Them in a Faraday Cage at His Companies

By Frank Landymore

Tech giant Apple has finally shown off its own take on artificial intelligence tech. We've seen this all before.

Apple’s Huge AI Announcement Is a Chatbot and an Image Generator, Which Is the Exact Same Boring Offering as Microsoft, Google and Meta

By Victor Tangermann

A new iPad ad shows a hydraulic press crushing beloved creative objects — and, perhaps, our dreams along with them.

Apple’s New Ad Showing Machines Crushing Human Creativity Is a Bit on the Nose

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, barely anybody is booking demos for the Apple Vision Pro. Almost nobody is buying the device.

Virtual Reality

Almost Nobody Is Buying Apple’s Super Expensive Vision Pro VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Apple's Vision Pro VR headset is giving some users literal black eyes, MarketWatch reports, thanks to an awkward fit.

Virtual Reality

Another Apple VR Side Effect: Black Eyes

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has allegedly set its sights on home robots — and is said to be in the early stages of developing one that follows you around the house.

Apple Secretly Working on AI Robot That Follows You Around The House

By Noor Al-Sibai

A surgery team in the UK successfully utilized the recently-released Apple Vision Pro to assist spinal surgery.

Prosthetics and Devices

Surgeons Use Apple VR Headset During Spinal Operation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apple struggled to build its high tech car, burning billions of dollars while constantly changing its project's direction.

Advanced Transport

Apple’s Failed Car Was a Disaster Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

After around a decade of extremely secretive development, Apple is officially giving up on building an electric car.

Advanced Transport

Apple Gives Up on Apple Car, Moves Team to Generative AI

By Victor Tangermann

Yes, software developer Jacob Wright wore his Vision Pro headset for a few wedding photos. No, he didn't wear it during the ceremony.

Virtual Reality

We Talked to the Guy Who Wore a Vision Pro VR Headset at His Wedding

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some folks who cashed out the eye-watering $3,500 (before tax!) for Apple's Vision Pro headset are already showing some buyer's remorse.

Virtual Reality

People Are Already Returning Their Apple Vision Pro Headsets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apple's new Vision Pro headset VR doesn't support "immersive" adult content — and the people who bought it for that are not happy.

Virtual Reality

Apple Fans Horrified to Discover Vision Pro Can’t Play VR Porn

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video shows a driver dangerously wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset while cruising hands-free in a full self-driving Tesla.

Virtual Reality

Gaze in Horror at This Guy Wearing a VR Headset While Driving

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Reviewers of the Apple Vision Pro VR headset have found that the baked-in virtual keyboard is so bad, it's downright unusable.

Virtual Reality

Apple’s Ludicrously Expensive VR Headset’s Virtual Keyboard Is Apparently Useless

By Victor Tangermann

Ridicule Erupts as Apple Reveals the Avatars in Its Super Expensive VR System

By Sharon Adarlo

Highly detailed industrial computed tomography (CT) scans of a real Apple AirPod Pro and two fakes are blowing our minds.

Robots and Machines

This CT Scan of Real vs Fake AirPods Is Blowing Our Puny Minds

By Victor Tangermann

Apple is spending $1 billion per year on generative AI, which may soon manifest in a smarter Siri and AI capabilities in other programs.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Is Apparently Spending Billions on Secret AI Development

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple executives gave John Stewart an ultimatum: cede creative control, give up those issues, or "The Problem" gets cancelled.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Reportedly Ditched Jon Stewart Because They Didn’t Like His Thoughts About AI

By Frank Landymore

The first generation "Editions" line of Apple Watches which came encrusted in 18 karat gold are being left out to dry.

Apple Says Its $17k Gold-Plated Watch Is Obsolete

By Frank Landymore

Apple's iPhone 15 models have reportedly been overheating, according to consumers. They have become too hot to touch.

Apple Scrambling After New iPhones Getting Too Hot

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple is secretly developing a generative AI framework called "Ajax," along with an internally used AI-powered chatbot similar to ChatGPT.

Apple Is Secretly Building Its Rival to ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

The Apple patent, published by the Patent Office last week, includes concepts for rollable screens that could be used on iPhones and iPads.

Apple Files Patent for iPhone That Rolls Up Like a Stack of Money

By Frank Landymore

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is worried we'll turn into the blobby people being carted around on hovering recliners, like in "WALL-E."

Virtual Reality

Jack Dorsey Says VR Will Turn Us Into the Blob People From “WALL-E”

By Victor Tangermann

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a dig at Apple's recently-announced Vision Pro mixed-reality headset.

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Dig at Apple’s VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Apple's Vision Pro was launched with great fanfare but Apple execs have not been pictured wearing the AR device. Maybe because it looks dorky.

Virtual Reality

Apple Execs Seem Terrified of Being Photographed Wearing Dorky AR Headset

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple's expensive new headset can simply register your eyes via a feature called Optic ID by scanning the wearer's irises.

Robots and Machines

Apple’s New AR Headset Scans Your Eyeballs to Unlock

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has announced its long-awaited VR headset — and it looks even stranger than we anticipated thanks to a view of the wearer's eyes.

Robots and Machines

Apple’s Bizarre Headset Has Front-Facing Screen Showing User’s Eyes

By Victor Tangermann

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple suggested internally people would be wearing its upcoming mixed-reality headset to parties.

Virtual Reality

Apple Hoping People Will Wear Its Pricey VR Headset to Parties

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has made breakthroughs in a confidential project that would transform its Apple Watches into noninvasive glucose monitors, Bloomberg reports.

Prosthetics and Devices

Secret Apple Project Tracks Blood Sugar Using Apple Watch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report by The Information has shed light on Apple's hotly-anticipated mixed reality headset — and it sounds like a pretty quirky device.

Virtual Reality

Apple VR Headset Will Apparently Have Display Facing Outward to Show the User’s Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

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The FBI Says Apple’s New Encryption Is “Deeply Concerning”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech giant Apple is giving up on full autonomy for its upcoming car and is delaying the target launch date by a year to 2026, Bloomberg reports.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Apple Gives Up on Making Its Upcoming Car Fully Autonomous

By Victor Tangermann

The iPhone 14's new crash detection feature has falsely reported crashes at least six times in one county when its owners were only riding a roller coaster.

Apple’s New iPhone Crash Detection Calls 911 When Owners Go on a Roller Coaster

By Frank Landymore

22 year Apple veteran and Vice President of procurement Tony Blevins has left the company after a vulgar joke of his went viral.

Apple VP Ousted After Making Vulgar Sexual Remark

By Frank Landymore

Hackers gained access to Apple News push notifications via a business magazine — and sent out a trollish, racist push notification that's as juvenile as it is offensive.

Hackers Send “Incredibly Offensive” Alert to Apple News Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you're excited about getting the new iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max, you might want to wait for this obnoxious issue to be resolved first

The New iPhone Camera Is Reportedly Rumbling Loudly

By Frank Landymore

Philadelphia police took a successfully novel approach to a kidnapping case by tracking a pair of Apple AirPods left in the car used in the crime.

Police Find Kidnapped Baby by Tracking AirPods Mom Left in Vehicle

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to TechCrunch, Glance, a Google-backed subsidiary of Indian advertising company inMobi Group, is set to launch its lockscreen platform on US-based Android smartphones within the next two months.

Cell Providers Are Apparently Gonna Put Ads on Your Phone’s Lock Screen

By Victor Tangermann

An Indiana woman allegedly told someone that she used an Apple AirTag to stalk a man and kill him because he was cheating on her.

Woman Arrested for Murdering Boyfriend After Tracking Him With Apple AirTag

By Noor Al-Sibai

One family says their child was left with hearing damage after the boy's Apple AirPods blasted an Amber alert in his ears and filed a lawsuit for damages.

Prosthetics and Devices

Lawsuit Claims Apple AirPods Ruptured a Child’s Eardrums

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Top Apple employees wrote an open letter to executives. They resigned rather than quit working from home and return to the office.

Apple Staffers Quit Rather Than Return to Office

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and others are helping employees get access to abortion and covering travel costs after the Supreme Court leak.

More and More Tech Companies Offer to Help Employees Get Abortions

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hackers have been forging emergency legal requests to get personal information from both Facebook parent company Meta and tech giant Apple.

Oops! Apple and Facebook Gave Personal Data to Hackers Claiming to be Police

By Victor Tangermann

Apple Sued a Musician Because They Thought “Pineapple” Was Too Close to “Apple”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Apple retail employees are beginning to quietly organize a union but have to use Android phones to avoid the company spying on them.

Apple Employees Are Unionizing and They’re Using Android Phones to Keep Apple From Spying on Them

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Connecticut police arrested Wilfred Gonzalez after they found he was allegedly tracking a victim's car using an Apple AirTag, according to news reports.

Man Caught Planting Apple AirTag on Ex Girlfriend’s Car to Stalk Her

By Victor Tangermann

Apple's CEO has taken out a restraining order against a stalker who keeps emailing him photos of loaded guns and creeping around his house.

Apple CEO Menaced by Armed Stalker Who Thinks She’s His Wife

By Noor Al-Sibai

Wordle, a popular word-guessing game that skyrocketed in popularity this month, was immediately ripped off by a different developer called Zach Shakked.

Guy Who Shamelessly Ripped Off Beloved Word Game Issues Apology

By Victor Tangermann

An Arkansas woman found herself in a nightmare scenario recently when she discovered that someone had put an Apple tracking device on her car.

Woman Freaks Out After Discovering an Apple Tracking Device on Her Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple's car project lead Doug Field is leaving to join Ford as its chief advanced technology and embedded systems officer, another big blow to the project.

Advanced Transport

The Lead of Apple’s Secretive Car Project Just Left to Join Ford

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has announced that it is delaying the rollout of its controversial plans to scan iPhones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), The Verge reports.

Apple Is Delaying Plans to Scan Phones for Child Abuse Material

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has announced that it will scan each and every photo ever uploaded to its iCloud Photos service by customers in the US for sexual abuse material.

Apple Will Scan Every iPhone for Images of Child Sexual Abuse

By Victor Tangermann

Remember last week, when a new book claimed that Elon Musk once demanded to be made the CEO of Apple? Now he says it never happened.

Elon Musk Denies Demanding That CEO of Apple Give Up His Job

By Jon Christian

According to explosive allegations in a new book, Elon Musk once demanded to be made CEO of software megacorporation Apple.

Elon Musk Reportedly Demanded to Be Made CEO of Apple

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a jab at Apple when asked about Tesla's plans to open up its Supercharging network to third parties during this week's Q2 earnings call.

Elon Musks Criticizes “Some Companies,” Then Fake-Coughs and Mutters “Apple”

By Victor Tangermann