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Apple Just Won AI (and It’s Not Even Close) (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Videos, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple may have just won consumer AI by being last, and here is the twist that makes it interesting: it did it without having the smartest model. ChatGPT is more powerful. Claude is better at complex reasoning. Apple even leaned on the tech behind Google's Gemini to help train its own models, and after promising a revolutionary Siri back in 2024 and then failing to ship most of it, Apple had every reason to be the company nobody trusted with AI. But while everyone was writing them off, they quietly rebuilt the Siri that had been broken for 15 years, and after spending time with the beta, I think that changes the whole equation.
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Apple Music Just Got More Expensive, and It Was Only a Matter of Time
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Music,
If you pay for Apple Music, your next bill is going up. Apple bumped the price of its music service today, and it's the first time the company has touched that number in almost four years. The last increase landed back in October 2022, so if you felt like you'd been paying the same amount forever, you basically had been.
Here's the damage. Apple Music Individual moves from $10.99 to $11.99 a month. The Family plan takes the biggest hit, jumping from $16.99 all the way to $19.99. And the student plan, the one plenty of people stretch out for as many years as they can get away with, ticks up from $5.99 to $6.99. All of it takes effect today, July 17, in the US and a handful of other countries.
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You Won’t Look At Apple’s Siri AI The Same Way After Watching This (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Google, Software, Videos, Artificial Intelligence,
Here's the story you probably heard: Apple fell behind on AI, panicked, and quietly handed Siri over to Google. So when a much smarter Siri showed up at WWDC, the case seemed closed. Siri was just Gemini wearing an Apple logo. It was a tidy narrative, repeated everywhere, and it turns out to be wrong.
During WWDC, I was invited to a closed-door media briefing with Craig Federighi and his team. Craig took the Google question head-on, first walking us through how a typical chatbot app like ChatGPT or Gemini works, then explaining what Apple built instead. His conclusion was blunt: "The amount of Google Assistant we use is none." No Gemini client code in iOS, none of the models Google deploys to its own customers, and not even Google Search as the foundation of Siri's world knowledge.
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Apple’s visionOS 27 Update is Actually Insane (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Wearables, Software, Videos,
You can probably recite the joke by now: Vision Pro is a very expensive iPad strapped to your face. I've heard it for two years. However, after going hands-on with the visionOS 27 developer beta, I think that joke is finally running out of road.
Start with Siri, because Apple basically started over. On visionOS 27, the assistant lives in your room as a small 3D orb you can park anywhere - next to your monitor, above the couch, wherever - and it stays anchored there. There's no wake word anymore, either. A new interaction called Look and Speak means you just glance at the orb and start talking. That sounds small. In practice, it removes the most awkward thing about talking to a headset.
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Apple’s Long-Promised New Siri Is Finally Here, If You’re Willing to Beta Test iOS 27
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple has been promising a smarter, more personal Siri for so long that it started to feel like a running joke. The assistant that was supposed to understand your life, dig through your apps, and actually get things done kept slipping - announced, delayed, quietly pushed to “next year.” Well, next year is here. The new Siri just made its public debut in the iOS 27 beta, and for the first time you can actually try the thing Apple has been talking about for what feels like forever.
There’s a catch, though. A few of them, actually. This isn’t a switch that flips on your iPhone tomorrow. You have to opt into a public beta, join a waitlist, own a fairly recent iPhone, and live in the right part of the world. The upside, though, is that once you get in, the new Siri is...actually really good. For Apple, that would be a first.
Apple Intelligence Photo Editing: Everything You Missed! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Software, Videos, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple’s Photos app is getting a serious AI upgrade in iOS 27, and it changes what happens after you tap the shutter. In this video, I break down three new Apple Intelligence photo tools coming to iPhone: a much more powerful Cleanup, a new Extend feature that can grow the edges of your photo, and Spatial Reframing, which lets you shift the composition after the shot was already taken.
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The Rivian R2 Is Almost Perfect But There’s One Big Problem (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Product Reviews, Transportation, Videos,
The Rivian R2 might be the most important vehicle Rivian has ever made. After spending a day driving it through highways, mountain roads, and dirt trails outside Park City, Utah, it is clear this is not just a smaller R1. It feels like Rivian took the best parts of its adventure-ready DNA and packed them into something more usable, more affordable, and much easier to imagine in a normal driveway.
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The OPPO Find X9 Ultra Is a Warning Shot to Every Flagship (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Product Reviews, Videos,
Every flagship phone has a compromise, but the OPPO Find X9 Ultra makes that compromise surprisingly hard to find. This is OPPO’s first Ultra model launching globally, and it arrives with the kind of hardware that makes the usual Samsung, Apple, and Google playbook feel a little too safe. A massive camera system, a 7,050 mAh silicon carbon battery, 100W charging, a 144Hz AMOLED display, and Hasselblad tuning all come together in a phone that feels more like a camera with apps than a phone with a good camera.
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Why the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Is the Ultimate Field Laptop for Creators
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, PC / Laptop, Product Reviews,
Imagine a 13-inch laptop that costs $3,000 and doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card. Sounds like a tough sell. But somehow, this machine manages to trade blows with an RTX 4060.
This is the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition. It goes way deeper than a simple brand collaboration. ASUS actually baked real software and hardware integration into this device. It is easily one of the most purpose-built machines for creators on the market today. Let's dive into what makes it special.
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Universal Sued Nintendo Over Donkey Kong. And It Backfired. (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Editorial, Video Games, Videos,
Picture the year 1983. You walk into a video arcade during its absolute golden era, the air thick with cheap pizza and ozone, that wild geometric carpet under your feet, the whole room a chaotic symphony of beeps and bloops. Arcades were printing money. But behind all that noise, a genuinely bizarre legal brawl was brewing, and it pitted a Hollywood titan, Universal Studios, against an underdog Japanese company that got its start back in 1889 making playing cards.
That company was Nintendo, the game was Donkey Kong, and Universal was convinced Nintendo's smash hit infringed on its trademark for King Kong. It's a David-versus-Goliath story played out in federal court, and it did not end the way Universal expected.
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