Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that generates anonymous email addresses under the @icloud.com domain, which then forward messages to a…
Nvidia is preparing to borrow billions of dollars while the AI boom keeps filling the company’s coffers. CNBC reported that Nvidia is targeting at least $20 billion in its first corporate bond sale since 2021, with the final deal size potentially reaching $25 billion. The company has filed paperwork for the offering and said proceeds…
The New Moon has now passed, meaning the lunar cycle is beginning again. Over the coming nights, the Moon will gradually become more visible in the evening sky as a thin waxing crescent starts to reappear. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Wednesday, June 17, the Moon phase is Waxing Crescent. Tonight, 14% of…
Before I started using a handheld fan, I was a total skeptic. I’d seen the ones that attach to your phone or fit in a bag, and I couldn’t imagine they’d provide any real relief from the heat—and they seemed completely unnecessary. But now that I’ve used the fans on this list, I don’t know…
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed. It raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation (also besting OpenAI) at the end of May, then waltzed into June by filing confidential paperwork for an IPO, reportedly…
A data breach affecting education technology provider Infinite Campus has exposed the personal information of more than 137,000 school staff members. The incident occurred after threat actors allegedly compromised the company’s Salesforce environment and leaked stolen records online. “The group subsequently published data they alleged was taken from Infinite Campus, containing 137k unique email addresses…
Android 17, Google’s latest model of mobile operating system, is officially available — at least for owners of Pixel phones. Google also released a new Pixel Drop and the latest operating system for its smartwatches, Wear OS 7. There’s a lot of new features, so let’s dive into what’s coming to your devices. Android 17…
What ties the roster together more than any title or office is a shared preoccupation with artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future. Asked on a sign-up form to predict the future, registrants returned again and again to the same theme: that AI will reorder work, war, education, and belief within a few years. Several…
SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly-public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday — its first full day of trading. Tuesday’s news that SpaceX was acquiring AI coding…
Apple Watch blood sugar tracking has become one of the most anticipated features in wearable tech… but it remains stuck between promising research and medical reality. Apple has not announced an Apple Watch that can measure blood glucose on its own, and the US Food and Drug Administration says no smartwatch or smart ring has…
