Following our report last month, Google is beginning to roll out its gradient icon redesign for Workspace apps.
The first appearance of this major visual revamp is in the web app launcher available in the vast majority of Google websites in the top-right corner and Chrome’s New Tab page.
We see the new icons for Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Chat, Meet, Vids, Forms, Keep, Voice, and Tasks.
Whenever the new Siri finally launches, it’s going to be the most privacy -respecting AI chatbot out there, with an additional privacy feature reported yesterday.
We already knew that Apple’s agreement with Google will mean that Siri is not allowed to be used to train the Gemini model, and Bloomberg is now reporting an option to automatically delete our Siri conversations …
While the new Siri will be powered by Google’s Gemini, it won’t be running on Google servers. Apple has said that it will
Govee is launching its , bringing cinema-grade reactive lighting with Matter support to your home theater.
The new Govee TV Backlight 3 is the latest product that relies on a camera system. This makes it more affordable than costly HDMI sync boxes.
Govee says it’s the “first TV backlight to achieve 4-million-pixel resolving power through an industry-first hybrid glass-plastic dual-camera lens.”
“The TV Backlight 3 achieves 4-million-pixel resolving power — the highest in the TV
App le has for years been using a procedure known as chip binning to reuse faulty chips in other models of a product, or even entirely different products.
A new report gives further examples of cases where Apple has been able to take chips which failed quality control for one product and subsequently use them in another – and says that the practice dates all the way back to the original iPad and iPhone 4 …
We first drew attention to the process back in 2020 when Apple used it for the M1 MacBook
An Apple gift card scam saw buyers lose hundreds of millions of dollars. One raid alone recovered 4,000 iPhones worth between $8M and $9M, with the New Hampshire-based operation even involving a murder.
The sophisticated operation started with the theft of Apple gift cards from retail outlets before they were tampered with and then replaced in the stores. The moral of the story is only to ever buy the cards direct from Apple stores …
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The New Hampshire operation started
Spotify recently changed the app icon for its mobile app, and not everyone appreciates the celebratory disco ball logo.
The flat green Spotify app icon was recently replaced with a photorealistic disco ball.
The icon refresh was a playful change meant to be whimsical and celebratory for as a company.
The problem is that not everyone knew the icon change was meant to be a temporary birthday celebration for Spotify.
For that reason, the company has gone out of its way to respond to social media posts, ensuring everyone that the disco ball
According to the , Apple is planning an interesting new Genmoji feature in iOS 27 to bolster its usage: suggested Genmoji’s based on your photo library and keyboard history.
Genmoji debuted in iOS 18.2 as part of the initial Apple Intelligence rollout. The premise was simple: using image generation models, users can type in a quick prompt and make whatever emoji they’d like to have, and the system would try to create something that resembled the style of an emoji using your prompt. It was
Next month at WWDC 2026, Apple is expected to finally live up to its AI Siri promises, and more. The company has long been working on a new standalone Siri app to boost how users interact with Siri and Apple Intelligence – and it should be debuting in beta next month.
According to a , the new Siri app will come with a privacy feature similar to one on iMessage: auto-deleting chats. He also expects Siri to launch with a beta label even when it’s available publicly
In the era of Apple Silicon, MacBooks are more affordable than ever. Nowadays, you can buy a with 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory for $1099 directly from Apple, when such a configuration would’ve cost $1599 just a few years ago. And on top of that, we have bringing the entry-point down substantially.
Even with Apple’s prices coming down though, there’s still a number of deals to be found out
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