Drivers will be able to preauthorize fuel purchases directly within Apple CarPlay starting this fall (via Reuters). The feature, first mentioned in a developer session at WWDC earlier this month, will allow CarPlay users to use apps to navigate to a pump and preauthorize a fuel purchase. Fuel companies will offer individual apps that users…
The European Union will continue to prevent carriers from appling roaming charges for travelers from and to any of the 27 member states of the union or the European Economic Area for 10 more years. The “roam like at home” initiative abolished roaming charges 5 years ago and put an end to carriers putting surcharges…
Delivery startup Enjoy today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), less than one year after raising over $250 million in growth capital and going public on the stock market. Founded by Apple’s former retail chief Ron Johnson, Enjoy provided what it called a “commerce-at-home experience”…
We’ve been getting details about an upcoming Lenovo Legion gaming phone powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset and now the device passed through China’s TENAA agency revealing its key specs. Lenovo Legion Halo on TENAA Lenovo Legion Halo (model number L71091) will bring a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution (2400×1080px) and a…
Instagram this week implemented support for a new option that allows an Instagram account to be deleted directly within the Instagram app. Instagram is now in compliance with an updated App Store Guideline that requires all apps that offer account creation to also offer account deletion. Apple told developers that apps offering account creation must…
Instagram’s efforts to compete with TikTok are growing with the blogging platform’s latest move. As per a screenshot posted to Twitter by Matt Navarra, Instagram has begun testing making every video posted to Instagram a Reel so it may reach a larger audience across Instagram and Facebook. In an email to TechCrunch, a Meta spokesperson…
Comcast today released its long-awaited Xfinity Stream app on the Apple TV, allowing Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K owners who subscribe to Xfinity TV to access live TV shows and on-demand content on their set-top boxes. According to Comcast, the app supports more than 250 live TV channels and DVR recordings that can…
On July 12 Nothing will finally fully unveil the phone (1), but it looks like it might not be the only product that’s going to get stage time on that occasion. Prolific leakster Mukul Sharma has dug up a picture of some Nothing ear (1) TWS earbuds that look almost identical to the existing model,…
Apple last week launched the first M2 Mac, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, and repair site iFixit picked up the new machine to do a traditional device teardown. Design wise, there’s not a lot for iFixit to say about the M2 MacBook Pro because aside from the M2 chip, it is identical to the prior-generation MacBook…
Beginning Thursday, Apple Japan has updated its pricing for all iPhone models. Some models have increased in price by as much as 20%, which could reflect the weakening of the Japanese Yen against the US Dollar, which has lost about 15% of its value to the dollar in the last three months. The iPhone 13…