Richard Lawler

Senior News Editor

Richard LawlerOct 23, 2025

The NBA’s gambling problem isn’t over.

Apparently, there’s more going on than just Jontay Porter. ESPN, ABC News, and NBC News report that Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups have been arrested by the FBI in separate cases, with a press conference planned for 10AM ET.

ABC:

[Rozier and Jones are] among six people charged Thursday with turning professional basketball into a criminal gambling operation by using inside information to place unlawful wagers, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Amazon claims the headline isn’t robots taking jobs as it reveals new cost-cutting robots

Richard LawlerOct 23, 2025

HBO Max is raising prices for the third year in a row

Richard LawlerOct 21, 2025

MacBook Pro rumor points to OLED, touchscreen upgrades next year

Richard LawlerOct 17, 2025

Richard LawlerOct 16, 2025

YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music are back after an outage blanked out streams internationally.

After about an hour or so of reports from around the world of problems with YouTube, the video streaming platform is back online, and a support forum post confirms the issue is now resolved.

The only problem left now is for people criticizing its newly updated and now more transparent video player.

YouTube has a new video player

Jay Peters

Oct 14

Richard LawlerOct 12, 2025

Apple’s future smart glasses could have two separate UIs.

Another tidbit from Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter further explores the rumor he’s reported about Apple shifting resources from a Vision Pro follow-up to something more like Meta’s Ray-Ban Display:

The smart glasses are also likely to run the Vision Pro’s operating system, visionOS... A future device could operate the full version of the OS when it’s paired with a Mac, and then switch to a lighter, more mobile-friendly interface when it’s linked to an iPhone, I’m told.

Richard LawlerOct 10, 2025

Apple’s reportedly close to acquiring talent from ‘ambient AI’ startup Prompt AI.

CNBC reports Seemour maker Prompt AI is in late-stage talks over an acquihire by Apple, “likely” joining the Apple Home division.

Seemour’s ambient intelligence (more on that topic here) promised alerts and summaries of action caught on camera feeds, which could be useful for Apple’s rumored security camera and HomeScreenPod.

Screenshot of the seemor.ai website, with a modern-style home in the background with the words “Make your home as intelligent as you. The first Amient AI built for your home.”

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Screenshot: Seemour.ai

Richard LawlerOct 7, 2025

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on why CarPlay still isn’t going to happen.

Last week, Ford CEO Jim Farley stepped up to the Decoder mic to explain why Ford isn’t offering CarPlay Ultra. Then this week, our friend Joanna Stern followed up with RJ Scaringe to discuss (again) why his company’s cars don’t have CarPlay support at all.