Does running custom shortcuts put the “Pro” in Apple Pencil Pro? I scoffed at the name when the new iPad stylus was announced last week (it doesn’t even have a built-in eraser function?) but I take it back knowing I can use it to turn off my LED candles like I’m waving a magic wand.
The scam detection feature Google just announced requires Android users to opt in, and Google claims it’s on-device only, but it’s still essentially listening to your every conversation to look for fraudulent-sounding language.
Are we really ready to swap scamming concerns with privacy-related ones?
Aibo — Sony’s “Four-Legged Entertainment Robot” — hit the shelves in 1999, to the utter horror of parents (like my own) who had barely recovered from Furbies launching the year prior.
Happy 25th birthday you old dog! My inner child is heartbroken to have never owned you, but my now 30-year-old self will happily skip the current model’s near $3,000 price tag.
After placing iPadOS under its Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules last month, the European Commission has now designated Booking as a Gatekeeper, finding its online intermediation service Booking.com “meets the relevant thresholds” to be a core platform service.
That’s two additional services (and one new Gatekeeper) now on the list since the first 22 were named in September.
