The FCC is reviving net neutrality. But what does that mean?

The FCC is defrosting net neutrality once again, bringing back internet protection laws intended to keep users from paying high prices for the same web. In an exclusive statement to Reuters, FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel said the federal committee would be voting to bring back net neutrality laws at the end of the month, despite […]

Alternative App Stores coming soon to iPhones in the EU

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) officially went into effect in the EU last month. That means Big Tech needs to start abiding by this new regulation that intends to spur competition on these companies’ core platforms. In Apple‘s case, one of the biggest results of the DMA has been to allow “alternative marketplaces,” basically App […]

Apple’s new AI: 3 ways Siri could beat ChatGPT

Apple seemed slow to jump on the generative AI bandwagon, but new research related to contextual understanding might make Siri better than ChatGPT. The tech giant was conspicuously quiet during the meteoric rise of ChatGPT and the subsequent barrage of generative AI tools and features from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta. But Apple researchers […]

Stability AI updated its free text-to-song tool: 3 new features

Stable Audio, a text-to-music AI tool from Stability AI, once maxed out at 90 seconds. Now, you can generate longer audio content. Stability AI announced Stable Audio 2.0, an update to Stable Audio 1.0 that lets users generate up to three minutes of AI sound. SEE ALSO: StableLM: What to know about Stability AI’s language […]

Spotify might be getting a bit more expensive — again

Spotify did something really cool last fall: it started offering Premium subscribers 15 hours of audiobook listening per month with access to more than 150,000 reads. Now they might be doing something less cool: hiking up the price for Premium subscribers who want to listen to those audiobooks. The music streaming service cost a monthly […]

Satellite texting may come to Android, with a big leg up over iPhone

Ever since the launch of iPhone 14, Apple has supported satellite text messaging for emergency situations. It sounds like the competition will get an even better version of that soon. In a teardown of a new beta version of Android 15, 9to5Google found some text strings that give us an idea of how satellite messaging […]