Apple Intelligence isn’t made to be like Claude, Grok, or other AI tools that the Silicon Valley “lunatic fringe” praise, says Greg Joswiak, it’s built to help regular users. Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing – image credit: Apple. Apple has long been criticized for being behind on AI with Apple Intelligence,…
We’ve learned a few finicky details from Apple’s HomeView launch, including how the live security camera tiles work, how photo albums are displayed, and how to mount the display where a light switch used to be. HomeView, wall-mounted Apple introduced HomeView on October 13, but some of its smaller features deserve a closer look. Beyond…
Apple has detailed a new system, called Minions, that uses the idle GPUs found in Apple Silicon Macs to create a virtual GPU cloud that combines untapped processing power to chew through complex AI workloads. Mac Studio and Mac mini can become part of a Minion system Described by Apple as a dynamic virtual GPU…
Swift packages in Kotlin Multiplatform — built-in SwiftPM import with Kotlin 2.4.x In 2026, creating a cross-platform mobile app with shared business logic and UI between Android and iOS is fairly straightforward thanks to Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform. However, sooner or later we might need a platform-specific library that cannot be added to commonMain, and suddenly things…
Part 1 of 2: how a small, home-grown data pipeline became the backbone of Tilt’s Kotlin Multiplatform data layer. Part 2 covers what it unlocked: OpenTelemetry tracing with Grafana. At Tilt, the Android and iOS apps share one Kotlin Multiplatform module that owns networking, caching and business logic. A year ago, every repository function in it…
Hey! So you want to learn Kotlin Flows? Grab a seat. I know the official documentation can sometimes feel like reading a microwave manual, but I promise you, once you get the mental model right, Flows are going to be your best friend. Forget about the code for a second. Let’s talk about air. The Breakdown: The…
YouTube Music is rolling out new AI labels to help users identify songs created using AI. While artists using generative AI to make music is nothing new, listeners may not always know whether a track was created with AI. The “Made with AI” labels are rolling out on YouTube Music starting today and will arrive…
Emails are hitting the inbox of select Google One users, informing them of an upcoming change to access concerning Gemini Pro models. In the message, the Google One team says that access to select Pro models in both the Gemini app and AI Mode in Google Search will be placed behind a Google AI Pro…
TL;DR Several Pixel owners are reporting unusually low microphone volume when recording audio/video natively or via certain apps. Similar complaints date back to 2024 and span multiple Pixel generations, including the latest Pixel 10 series. Google appears to be aware of the complaints but hasn’t publicly acknowledged a widespread issue, and there’s no confirmed fix…
The Sony LinkBuds Clip is back down to $158 at Amazon, which cuts $72 off the $229.99 recommended retail price. That is a 31% discount off the RRP, bringing these earbuds back to their Prime Day price. It is also the best deal we have seen this year, so this is a strong time to…