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Apple Reportedly Announces iPhone 16

Apple will be unveiling new products on September 10, with the announced phones going on sale on September 20, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, TechCrunch reported. That lineup will reportedly include iPhone 16, with larger screens on the Pro models and a new button just for taking pictures. The phones should also support Apple Intelligence, the company’s

DOJ Sues Landlord Software RealPage For Inflating Rent Prices

The U.S. Department of Justice and eight state attorneys general have filed an antitrust suit against the real estate software company RealPage accusing it of colluding with landlords to decrease competition and artificially inflate rental prices, Gizmodo reported. The complaint alleges that the Texas-based company feeds nonpublic information about rent rates and lease terms between competing landlords into its algorithms,

Bodies Of Mike Lynch And Four Yacht Guests Pulled From Bayesian Wreck

The bodies of UK Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and four of his guests on the superyacht Bayesian have been recovered, three days after it sank off of the coast of Sicily, according to Italian officials, Financial Times reported. The officials said the bodies of Christopher Morvillo of the law firm Clifford Chance and Johnathan Bloomer, chair of insurance group Hiscox

Google’s Pixel Studio Image Generation Can Go Off The Rails

One of the new AI-powered launch features on the Pixel 9 series is Pixel Studio, an app that takes text prompts and turns them into images. It might end up being a fun little tool, but it can also go off the rails pretty easily in our experience, 9to5Google reported.

Waymo Is Now Giving 100,000 Robotaxi Rides A Week

Waymo disclosed Tuesday that it’s now giving more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, TechCrunch reported. Those figures were shared by Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana in a social media post on X. The new 100,000 figure is double what the company has previously disclosed. Alphabet and

AMD Buys AI Equipment Maker For Nearly $5 Billion

Advanced Micro Devices agreed to pay nearly $5 billion to ZT Systems, a designer of data-center equipment for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, bolstering the chip maker’s attack on Nvidia’s dominance in AI computation, The Wall Street Journal reported.

X Says It’s Closing Operations In Brazil

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country, TechCrunch reported. The announcement comes amidst a legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who sought to block certain accounts on X as part of an investigation into election