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25 Oct

iOS 18.2 will include daily Sudoku puzzles for Apple News+ subscribers

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The long-anticipated iPhone iOS 18.1 officially launches next week, bringing with it Apple Intelligence, but we are already on to the next new thing. The company is busy preparing iOS 18.2, which has already entered its beta stage and should be widely released in December. This next operating system will include daily Sudoku puzzles for Apple News+ subscribers, as reported…

25 Oct

NASA spent October hoisting a 103-ton simulator section onto a test stand to prep for the next Moon mission

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NASA spent the last two weeks hoisting a 103-ton component onto a simulator and installing it to help prepare for the next Moon missions. Crews fitted the interstage simulator component onto the Thad Cochran Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The connecting section mimics the same SLS (Space Launch System) part that will help protect…

25 Oct

The M2 MacBook Air is cheaper than ever at $700, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals

John RoutledgeLatest News

Black Friday/Cyber Monday is more than a month away (Thanksgiving falls on November 28 this year — I looked it up so you don't have to). So while we wait for all of the best-of-the-year discounts the shopping event usually entails, there are still a few worthy sales out there on the tech we've reviewed and recommend. For example, the…

25 Oct

Waymo raises $5.6 billion to fund Austin and Atlanta expansion

John RoutledgeLatest News

Waymo has raised another huge chunk of change from investors. The company announced on its blog that it secured an “oversubscribed investment round” of $5.6 billion in funding, the largest of which came from Google's parent company Alphabet.The company is working with Uber to expand to Austin and Atlanta by the early part of next year. Waymo says it plans…

25 Oct

Meta AI gains access to Reuters news content in multi-year deal

John RoutledgeLatest News

Another day, another publication contributes to the rise of AI. First, the likes of Time and Dotdash Meredith partnered with OpenAI to license their property, now Reuters is giving Meta's AI chatbot access to its news content for responses to current events and news questions, Axios first reported.Basically, the multi-year deal allows users in the US to now receive real-time news…

25 Oct

Anker charging gear is up to 50 percent off right now

John RoutledgeLatest News

It's easier than ever to avoid finding yourself in a pickle because your phone (or another important device) has run out of juice. There are a ton of great on-the-go charging options now, and Anker is behind some of the best power banks and portable chargers. There's a sale on Anker gear at Amazon at the minute, with the prices…

25 Oct

How Fear the Spotlight became Blumhouse’s first video game

John RoutledgeLatest News

Blumhouse wasn’t going to publish a game in 2024. The studio, one of the leading names in horror films, announced in February 2023 that it was launching a video game publishing business and executives were scouting projects from independent teams with budgets under $10 million. The goal of Blumhouse Games was to support a few rad horror titles per year,…

25 Oct

Engadget Podcast: The new iPad Mini is boring and that’s okay!

John RoutledgeLatest News

We finally got an iPad Mini refresh, and it's not particularly exciting. But that's fine! It's still a useful little tablet, and now thanks to the A17 Pro chip, it's already ready for upcoming Apple Intelligence features. In this episode, Engadget Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham joins to discuss what he liked about the new iPad Mini, and what he hopes…

25 Oct

VW’s Scout EV revival starts with an SUV and a pickup

John RoutledgeLatest News

Though it disappeared over 40 years ago, International Harvester is a mythical brand in North America thanks in part to the Scout, one of the world's first SUVs. Now, Scout Motors is back under Volkswagen as an all-new marque and just revealed its first two models: the Terra pickup and Traveler SUV. Both use a brand-new EV platform and will…

25 Oct

The Morning After: Apple’s Week of Announcements starts Monday

John RoutledgeLatest News

If you’re fluent with concepts like release schedules and calendars, you may notice Apple hasn’t updated its computers in a while. It’s nearly a full year since the iMac and MacBook Pro got speed bumps, and just over a year for the Mac Pro and Mac Studio. Now, Apple’s head of marketing, Greg Joswiak, has announced an “exciting week of…