You can now call ChatGPT using your phone line when cellular data is not available

OpenAI has been announcing a lot of new features and enhancements for ChatGPT in recent days, and the company still has a few more cards up its sleeve. Now OpenAI is introducing an intriguing feature: the ability to call ChatGPT using your phone line without the need for cellular data.

The announcement was made by OpenAI and shows the technology in action. Essentially, anyone in the US can now call 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) to


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Apple collaborates with NVIDIA to research faster LLM performance

In a , Apple engineers have shared new details on a collaboration with NVIDIA to implement faster text generation performance with large language models.

Apple and its Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter) technique earlier this year. It represents a new method for generating text with LLMs that is significantly faster and “achieves state of the art performance.” It combines two techniques: beam search (to explore multiple possibilities) and dynamic tree attention (to efficiently handle choices).

While its research demonstrated strong results, Apple collaborated with NVIDIA to apply ReDrafter


iOS 18.2 gives Apple Mail its biggest redesign ever, here’s everything new

iOS 18.2 is a huge release for users. New Apple Intelligence features are a major highlight, but so too is the Mail app, which gets its biggest redesign ever. Here’s everything that’s new.

When you open Apple’s Mail app on iOS 18.2, the redesign is almost immediately evident. Your mailboxes screen will look the same as always, but opening an inbox reveals some big changes.

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These are the top 10 Apple TV+ shows coming soon in 2025

Apple TV+ has been having an especially good year , but the streamer is prepping a big lineup of shows and movies for 2025 too. Here are the top 10 TV shows coming to Apple TV+ soon in early 2025.

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AirTag’s worst feature gets fixed forever by this new add-on accessory

Apple’s AirTag is a fantastic product with a lot of helpful use cases. Its greatest flaw, though, is battery life. Fortunately, there’s a new accessory that makes your AirTag battery last much, much longer.

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Bloomberg: Apple scraps plans to offer iPhone hardware subscription service

Apple is no longer planning to create a “hardware subscription service” to make it as easy as possible to get a new iPhone every year. that the goal was “to make owning an iPhone like subscribing to an app,” but the project was “recently wound down.”

The program was initially supposed to launch at the end of 2022 but was delayed until 2023 and beyond. The project reportedly suffered setbacks due to software problems and regulatory concerns.

It would work like this:


macOS 15.3 and more public betas arrive, here’s what’s new

Apple has debuted the first public beta for a host of forthcoming software updates, including macOS Sequoia 15.3, iPadOS 18.3, tvOS 18.3, and more. Here’s what’s new.

You can download and install the new public betas as a member of the .

If you’ve previously used public beta software, your device should still be enrolled.

Once enrolled, you can download the new updates directly from the Software Update screen in your device’s Settings app

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iOS 18.3 public beta now available, here’s what to expect

Apple has released iOS 18.3 public beta 1 today. The new beta offers a preview of the iPhone’s next software update to members of Apple’s beta software program. Here’s what to expect from today’s release.

iOS 18.3 first arrived in beta form Monday as a developer-exclusive launch . Today’s public beta carries the same build number as that release, so we know exactly what to expect from public beta 1.

And what to expect is…not

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Is TikTok about to get banned in the US? It’s now up to the Supreme Court

TikTok is running out of options to avert its impending US ban . But one of the only sources of hope left for TikTok has just come through. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s arguments against the forthcoming ban. Here are the details.

Per legislation passed by the US Congress and signed by President Biden, TikTok will soon be banned in the US unless ByteDance sells its US stake in the social app.

Up until now, ByteDance’s various challenges have all come to nothing.

But there

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