Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority According to a recent experiment, Siri has gotten less accurate on iOS 18. When asked about past Super Bowl results, Apple’s digital assistant answered only 34% of the questions properly. Siri will reportedly receive a ChatGPT-like upgrade with iOS 19, so its responses may become more reliable next year.
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can’t be leveraged by competing groups or detected by defenders. One countermeasure is to equip the backdoor with a passive agent that remains dormant until
Read MoreThe best hearing aids we’ve tested to date require a visit to the ear doctor—and a sizable investment.
Read MoreThe WH-1000XM5s launched almost three years ago. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s been three long years since Sony launched its flagship WH-1000XM5 headphones, our pick for the best wireless headphones for most people, so we’re due a follow-up — and a regulatory filing indicates that the XM6 cans might nearly be
Read MoreThe WH-1000XM5s launched almost three years ago. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s been three long years since Sony launched its flagship WH-1000XM5 headphones, our pick for the best wireless headphones for most people, so we’re due a follow-up — and a regulatory filing indicates that the XM6 cans might nearly be
Read MoreCredit: Perplexity Perplexity has released an AI-powered assistant for Android, competing with Google Gemini. It is available in 15 languages and performs multi-app actions like Gemini. The assistant can search for information (e.g., finding a song from a movie) and interact with apps to perform tasks like playing music, booking dinner, or setting reminders. AI-powered
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The Galaxy S25 Edge has been spotted on regulatory websites with a mere 25W wired charging support. This is at par with the charging speed of the Galaxy S25 but slower than the 45W charging speed of the Galaxy S25 Plus and Galaxy S25 Ultra. It is also
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A lawsuit has been filed against Apple after a study found high concentrations of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in its watch bands. The suit targets the Apple Watch’s Sport, Ocean, and Nike Sport bands. These chemicals can build up in our bodies over time and have been linked to a
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A lawsuit has been filed against Apple after a study found high concentrations of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in its watch bands. The suit targets the Apple Watch’s Sport, Ocean, and Nike Sport bands. These chemicals can build up in our bodies over time and have been linked to a
Read MoreLongtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from MotorTrend: A coming ground-fault circuit-interrupter revision could make slow-charging your car nearly impossible. The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) publishes a new National Electric Code every three years, and we almost never notice or care. But the next one, NFPA 70 2026, has the Society of Automotive
Read MoreThe New Tesla Model Y | Image: Tesla Just a couple weeks after launching the refreshed “Juniper” Model Y in China and other Asia-Pacific markets, Tesla has started taking orders in the Americas (US, Canada, Mexico, and Chile) and Europe. The Launch Series is the only trim level currently available to order in the US,
Read MoreThe World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 (PDF) highlights misinformation as the top global risk due to generative AI tools and state-sponsored campaigns undermining democratic systems, while cyberespionage ranks as a persistent threat with inadequate cyber resilience, especially among small organizations. From a report: The manipulation of information through gen AI and state-sponsored campaigns
Read MoreThe World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 (PDF) highlights misinformation as the top global risk due to generative AI tools and state-sponsored campaigns undermining democratic systems, while cyberespionage ranks as a persistent threat with inadequate cyber resilience, especially among small organizations. From a report: The manipulation of information through gen AI and state-sponsored campaigns
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix plans to offer couch co-op and party games that it will stream over the cloud to TVs, co-CEO Greg Peters said as part of the company’s Q4 2024 earnings announcements this week. The company has offered cloud gaming as a beta to a “subset” of subscribers since
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: The same morning that JetBlue Airways announced that it was the first airline partnering with Venmo to begin accepting payments for booking flights, an account on the popular payment platform was already raking in money. A Venmo user named Owen Miller paid the JetBlue Checkpoint Store for
Read MoreGoogle Calendar currently requires you to use its web interface for sharing calendars with others. Calendar on Android could soon let you invite new users to view your calendars directly from your phone. You could also pick up the ability to unsubscribe from shared calendars right in the app. Google Calendar already represents a fantastic
Read MoreThis icy 2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron has a heat pump. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Many EV manufacturers have leaned heavily on energy-gulping resistive heaters to keep the cabin and battery warm in the winter time. But heat pumps, which can cut down on battery range losses in the cold, are becoming more
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap
Read MoreDespite widespread adoption, Walmart has doubled down and gone on record saying it will not accept NFC-based payments like Apple Pay — in the U.S., at least. Walmart would much rather you use Walmart Pay Walmart has more than 4,500 stores in the United States, and exactly zero of them accept Apple Pay. Or Google
Read MoreContinuous glucose monitors provide diabetics with an invaluable data set for managing their blood sugar level. Right now, these wearable solutions still use a needle for access to your bloodstream. Samsung is working to take the needle out of the equation with a noninvasive optical solution. Smart wearables are as useful as they are largely
Read MoreImage: The Verge Perplexity has turned its AI “answer engine” into a mobile assistant on Android. The new assistant can answer general questions and perform tasks on your behalf, such as writing an email, setting a reminder, booking dinners, and more. It’s also multimodal, meaning you can ask it questions about what’s on your screen
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_EEpYYH5MA Google has released Android 16 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, allowing users to try the upcoming Android platform release by signing up for the Android Beta program. One of the most significant announced changes for Android 16 Beta 1 is Live Updates, which is Google’s version of iOS’ Live Notifications. Beta 1 also brings
Read MoreApple’s latest installment of quarterly earnings is on January 30 after market close, and there are five key points that Apple needs to make to satisfy investors. Apple CEO Tim Cook Morgan Stanley has proven to be one of the more accurate and reasonable firms that cover Apple. In a new note released on Friday
Read MoreThe ability to remotely remove installed extensions is coming “later this year.” | Image: The Verge Google has announced some new business features that can help IT admins better manage Chrome browser extensions, a popular attack vector for cybercriminals. A curated Chrome Web Store experience is launching today for Enterprise workspaces that allows pre-approved extensions
Read MoreThe nominees for the 97th Academy Awards have been announced and Apple TV+ is not going to take home another Best Picture Oscar, or anything else — because it didn’t try. “Blitz” was the only Apple production to even make it as far as the Oscars shortlist Nobody can ever take away from Apple that
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