Ford has shared test-drive footage of its Mustang Mach-E facing extreme weather conditions with a newly hired driver, a robot. The footage comes from Ford’s state-of-the-art Weather Factory in Germany and shows the new robots performing driving test simulations under extreme heat and high altitude, many of which human drivers cannot easily manage.
As a legacy automaker with nearly 120 years of…
Roblox acqui-hires Jim Greer’s Bash Video platform
August 12, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
Roblox has quietly acqui-hired Bash Video, a social video conferencing platform that Kongregate cofounder Jim Greer started.
It’s a small deal, as Bash Video only has six employees, but Greer is…
One day after releasing it to developers, Apple today is releasing the latest iOS 15 beta for public beta testers. Apple refers to this as iOS 15 public beta 5 and it includes a new Weather app icon, App Store tweaks, and more.
If you’re interested in signing up for…
WhatsApp made an appearance during Samsung’s Unpacked event, revealing that it would soon be possible to transfer messages between iOS and Android devices, starting with Samsung Galaxy phones.
As of today, WhatsApp easily allows you to transfer messages between iPhones or between Android devices, making it easy to continue your conversations after an upgrade. Thus far, though, switching from…
Latest Today at Apple tutorial shares how to make ‘Magic’ looping videos on iPhone [Video]
August 12, 2021
Apple’s new weekly installment of its online Today at Apple session highlights how to bring “Magic” to your videos with shooting and editing loops on iPhone and the Clips app. Check out the full 10-minute video tutorial below.
In its new online Today at Apple series…
Bipartisan bill would force Apple to allow third-party app stores and sideloading on iOS
August 12, 2021
It’s been a few months since the last bill tried to break Apple and Google’s app store monopoly on their respective platforms. Now, a bipartisan bill seeks to bring more competition to the app store market and would require Apple to open the iPhone to third-party app…
Noticed that you didn’t get the US test emergency alerts on your iPhone that just happened? Or maybe you did and want to disable test alerts? As it turns out, it’s not the Settings app on your iPhone that controls them. Read along for how to turn on/off test emergency alerts on iPhone.
You’ve probably received emergency alerts or AMBER alerts on your iPhone and Apple Watch before which are…
Most smartwatches compatible with Android smartphones usually offer support for Apple’s iOS platform too, but that tune might be changing. With its Galaxy Watch 4 series, Samsung has quietly dropped support for iOS.
If you dive into the specs of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch…
Apple releases new developer tool to test iOS 15 feature that prioritizes 5G over Wi-Fi
August 12, 2021
With the iOS 15 announcement at WWDC 2021 in June, Apple revealed that the next version of its operating system comes with a new feature to prioritize the 5G connection over Wi-Fi on compatible devices. Now the company has released a new tool for developers to allow them to…
Ahead of the new school year, Assistant is gaining a handful of features to help families organize their day. Assistant’s popular Family Bell sees a pair of phone and visual updates, while Google Search is also adding study aids.
Amid the newness of virtual learning last August, Google introduced the ability for Assistant to create a bell schedule that announces various events (starting class…
