Perplexity CEO and cofounder Aravind Srinivas. Associated Press In February, days before the Super Bowl, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI search startup Perplexity, gave users a sparkly incentive to install its app. He posted on X that instead of buying a Super Bowl ad, the company would give $1 million to one lucky user who…
Tim Cook and Donal Trump in 2019 — image credit: White House Despite scaremongering headlines, Trump did not escalate his “reciprocal” China tariff to 245% on Tuesday night. The figure is a reinstatement of previous tariffs that don’t apply to Apple or big tech at all. Coming on top of previous escalations and the Apple…
Washington: The stock market rout triggered by US President Donald Trump’s punishing tariff wars wiped over $10 trillion off major markets across the globe. The financial destruction, historic in scale, was equivalent to just over half of the GDP of the European Union, according to a report by Bloomberg. After Trump announced sweeping tariffs last…
In response to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffpolicies on Chinese and Vietnamese imports, global tech giants Apple andSamsung are steadily shifting their manufacturing base to India. The move isseen as a strategic pivot to minimize reliance on China and maintain a competitiveedge in the American market. The “Make in India” initiative is gaining…
A US-based version of social network TikTok appears to be eminent. Apple has been told it is allowed to keep the TikTok app in the App Store, following a US government assurance that no action should be taken for another 75 days. US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Apple and Google on…
The Apple Health app could offer AI-based coaching to users in a similar way to a real doctor, with food tracking also likely to be a big feature in a future app update. The Health app is used as a central store for a user’s health metrics. Compiling together data collected from hardware like…
In the last few years, foldable phones have gone from a dream to a reality that makes them an attractive option for everyday use — however, they are still limited in many ways. One big limitation of the hardware is that they generally fold only in one direction, collapsing inward to protect the screen when…
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Apple won’t be forced into enabling sideloading in Brazil, per a new court ruling. A Federal Civil Court judge ruled that Apple will not be required to enable sideloading in Brazil, meaning that the iPhone maker can continue to distribute apps exclusively via the App Store. The decision comes a week after Apple was previously…
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