Apple is committing up to $100 million to a US titanium producer.

The Pennsylvania-based Perryman will supply titanium for its products, including the new iPhone Duo, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Apple is also expanding its partnership with Delaware’s ...

Spotify’s new podcast memberships let you pay for extra perks

Spotify is enabling podcast creators to earn more money through the platform by providing their fans with a way to pay to ...

Google Cloud is recovering from a European outage.

Google says “a power event” created an outage for some of its cloud servers this morning. The power problem has now been resolved, and services should be coming back online. That’s good news for ...

Yelp’s AI can call a restaurant to check wait times for you and text you the answer.

Yelp’s new “Check for Me” feature is starting to roll out on iOS as part of Yelp’s fall product release. The launch also ...

Nvidia can’t fulfill China’s $35 billion chip demands.

ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have reportedly collectively ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500 GPUs, among the most powerful still compliant with US export controls. Those orders ...

Get ready for way more Waymo.

Waymo is reportedly looking to use that $5 billion loan it acquired this month to quintuple its current fleet of 4,000 robotaxis: bringing it to 8,000 by the end of this year, and 20,000 by December ...

Some Google Home Speakers caught downloading hundreds of gigs of data

The issue might be tied to failed attempts to install a firmware update. ...

Googlebooks don’t have Find Hub because laptops aren’t phones.

The Android laptops shipped with the tracking app, but it was quickly removed. Now Google has told Android Authority why, blaming laptop sleep settings. It sounds like a better optimized version might ...

Star Wars is (sort of) coming to the Super Bowl.

Star Wars Funday Football will be a real-time, animated telecast of Super Bowl LXI that will animate the players and sub in Star Wars characters. Anthony Daniels will voice C-3PO, and it’ll stream ...

Baseus’ new security camera has a spotlight that tracks and follows moving targets

Baseus announced a new addition to its lineup of AI-assisted security cameras that’s more proactive about discouraging ...

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos reportedly wants more focus on TV shows and movies.

The co-CEO has “complained internally for months that Americans were spending less time watching Netflix and that the service was short on new hit shows,” according to a big story from The Wall Street ...

Apple acquired Samplab, which made AI-powered music production tools.

A European Commission page noting tech acquisitions has a listing under Apple dated June 17th for a company called Samplab GmbH, as reported by AppleInsider. An archived “About” page for Samplab notes ...