Category: Technology

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple’s announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They’re appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the “suggested places” section in search, but Apple says they’ll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the ads began rolling out this week, and more users in the US and Canada will start seeing them over the next few weeks. They’re marked with a blue “ad” icon, similar to the ads Google’s had in its Maps app for years now. I was also greeted with a pop-up warning me about the ads when I…

The Silicon Valley company agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties as part of a landmark settlement with states over social media addiction claims.

The next-generation robotaxi called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company’s push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.

The digital bank said it was “rolling out a fix and moving quickly” to get the service working again

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took images of the crater created by a SpaceX rocket crashing into the moon.

OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.

Microsoft Edge is ending support for the Manifest V2 extensions platform, which will cut off the uBlock Origin adblocker and others like it, just like Google Chrome did earlier this year. According to Microsoft, there are only 58 extensions on the Edge Add-On Store “with any meaningful usage” that still use MV2, and only three of those aren’t available on the newer MV3 platform. Anyone still using these extensions can switch to a different adblocker, like uBlock Origin Lite. Or they could use a different browser, like Opera, which still supports existing MV2 extensions and says it will continue…

Bumble says it’s moving beyond swiping and deeper into real-world social experiences as it courts Gen Z users.