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Apple may let EU users shift from Siri to other voice assistants

 

Apple may soon let iPhone users in the EU swap Siri for Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa as their default voice assistant. The rumored change, reported by Bloomberg, would be part of Apple's effort to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, which aims to promote fair competition by requiring tech giants to open up their platforms to rivals. While this move addresses regulatory demands, it also highlights ongoing challenges for Siri, which has struggled to keep pace with competitors as it seeks to bring AI smarts to the feature ...

 

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  • Seems like more and more people are listening to their phones out loud, in public — Please, just buy some earbuds
  • It's from Succession writer/creator Jesse Armstrong — Watch tech bros plot mankind's doom in HBO's Mountainhead, coming May 31
  • 'I'm not as anonymous as I thought' — I used Cover Your Tracks to see what's following me online, and yikes
  • It comes with lots of health-sensing features and a subscription isn't required — Acer is making a smart ring, and doing it the right way
  • More than $285,000 worth of Apple Watches and MacBooks were stolen — Apple products nabbed from moving truck in highway heist
 
 

Viral 'transparent phone' isn't what you think

 

A video recently went viral showing a woman using what appears to be a crystal-clear smartphone. While everyone seemed to be willing the “handset” to be some incredible new piece of kit, the reality turned out to be more mundane ... it was merely a piece of acrylic. The woman behind it — Cat of @askcatgpt — said the idea was to highlight phone addiction and whether you could deal with it by having something that simply “feels” like a phone. She admitted, however, that carrying it around hasn’t curbed her own phone use  ...

 

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Spotify removes dozens of podcasts promoting online prescription drug sales

 

Spotify has been clearing its platform of numerous fake podcasts that directed users to websites purporting to sell drugs without a prescription. The issue was brought to light by CNN and Business Insider, whose separate investigations discovered some 200 podcasts peddling prescription medicines. “Podcasts with titles such as My Adderall Store — which has a link in the episode description to a site that purportedly sells Adderall, as well as potentially addictive pain medications like Oxycodone and Vicodin, among other drugs — were listed within the first 50 suggested results,” CNN said ...

 

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  • 'Still booting after all these years' — The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 
  • More people are vowing to live a life free of endless scrolling  — Is America headed for an age of dumb phones?
  • Personal growth and new beginnings — 'The end of the Nintendo Switch era closes a long chapter in my own life'
  • The EV maker is racing to launch a pilot ride service — Tesla's robotaxi rollout looks like a disaster waiting to happen
  • 'I'm absolutely sick of it. I don't want AI' — I want to boycott AI but there isn’t even an opt-out button!
 
 
 
 
 

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