Apple Watch Users Are Swapping Tennis For Pickleball

 Since the Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903, one aspect of how we fly hasn't changed. Evolving plane design and improved engines aside, almost all modern aircraft have one thing in common: They're powered by combustible fuels. 

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In a world where emergencies can happen anytime, having the right tools at your fingertips can make a crucial difference. Your iPhone and Apple Watch are more than just gadgets to receive and make calls, send messages or take photos, they have immense utility value and can potentially save your life. Let's dive into the essential settings you need to enable on your devices. Check out how to enable iPhone and Apple Watch life-saving features:

At the end of the last month, more than 30 US States, including California, Massachusetts, Tennesse, and others, filed lawsuits against Meta Platforms over the allegations of using features on its social media platforms to lure children and teens and allegedly get them hooked on harmful content, while not doing enough to ensure their safety. The Massachusetts lawsuit was earlier updated and the submissions were made unredacted, meaning the general public can go through its content. The claims and allegations in the documents paint a grim picture of how Facebook and Instagram were run, and how Mark Zuckerberg reportedly handled situations relating to teens.

Apple Inc. agreed to pay $25 million to settle a Department of Justice case alleging that the iPhone maker illegally discriminated against US citizens in hiring. 

The Lucid Air Sapphire luxury electric car will debut inside Forza Horizon 5 during Week 3 of the Winter Season on the American Automotive Festival Playlist.

Gareth Edwards, the director of 2014's Godzilla, is full of praise for Godzilla Minus One, the latest take on the monster movie. 

The warnings have grown louder and more urgent as 2024 approaches: The rapid advance of artificial intelligence tools threatens to amplify misinformation in next year's presidential election at a scale never seen before.

 Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook sought to assure Wall Street that iPhone demand remains strong in China, where it's grappling with the rise of Huawei Technologies Co. and an increasingly uncertain business environment for US firms.

It’s been months since Hayao Miyazaki’s latest (and maybe final? or maybe not!) anime movie, The Boy and the Heron, debuted in Japan, and fans of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli from other countries, where the film has been making the festival rounds, have eagerly been waiting for their chance to see it. Ahead of the movie’s December release in U.S. theaters, promotion has been rolling out slowly: First, with the movie’s initial Japanese-language teaser trailer, then the announcement of the voice cast for the English dub, and now the first English-language trailer, featuring the voices of Robert Pattinson, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, and others.

The signs of AI making trouble were there to see ever since the song ‘Heart on my sleeve' came out and immediately began ranking on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. It was an AI-generated song that used the cloned voices of artists Drake and The Weeknd. While it was soon taken down from the platforms, it showed the world how closely an AI-generated voice could sound. Now, in a recent incident, Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson has decided to take legal action against an AI app for using her voice for an online ad without her consent. This lawsuit marks the latest event in a series of growing frustration among singers and actors over the misuse of their identity through deepfakes.

Amazon Games and Bandai Namco have announced a Blue Protocol closed technical test for North American and European players starting on November 8th.