Apple Event: “Wonderlust”
Watch on 9/12 at 10 a.m. PT. View online at apple.com or on the Apple TV app.
Watch on 9/12 at 10 a.m. PT. View online at apple.com or on the Apple TV app.
Lighthouse is a website auditing tool that helps developers with opportunities and diagnostics to improve the user experience of their sites. Lighthouse 11 is available immediately on the command line through npm, in Chrome Canary, and in PageSpeed Insights. It will land in Chrome stable in Chrome 118.
In iOS 15, Apple moved mobile Safari’s address and search bar down from the top of the screen to sit right above the keyboard. Now, just two years later, Google has done the same. A bottom bar has one big advantage: it’s way easier to reach with a thumb when typing on your phone, either one- or two-handed. It’s also easier to read what you’re typing, as you don’t have…
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AI art remains hugely controversial, so you might think a company with Amazon’s resources would think twice about using it…. Or at least try to use it well. But fans are appalled that Prime Video’s first teaser poster for the upcoming live-action series Fallout not only looks AI-generated but also looks like nobody bothered to fix the mistakes.
Yahoo has announced a new AI-enabled “Shopping Saver” feature for its Mail app that keeps track of unused gift cards, vouchers and store credit lying in user’s email inboxes to help them save money.
From August 25, major tech platforms must comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA). The European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA) takes effect today, imposing stringent regulations on 19 of the largest digital service providers operating in the region. The new rules are aimed at tackling illegal content, disinformation, and giving users more control over social media algorithms.
Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
Twenty-five years ago this month, Apple fans began unboxing the first iMacs. At the time, computers were beige boxes wired to other beige boxes, toyed with by people in beige sweater vests. Amidst the mundanity, the iMac felt like a revolution. For many of us, that first experience of an iMac was transformative; it created a vision of a technological world that wasn’t all about work. Suddenly, tech was cool.
A brand new default theme will be featured with the next WordPress 6.4 release: Twenty Twenty-Four. The idea behind Twenty Twenty-Four is to make a default theme that can be used on any type of site, with any topic. Because of that, and contrary to past years, it has no single topic. I