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-DoorDash is bringing its robot delivery service to Miami, following an initial rollout in Los Angeles and Chicago earlier this year with over 600 participating merchants. The company continues to work with Coco Robotics as part of its push towards a "multi-modal system" that allows it to make human, robot and drone deliveries at scale. -Google has announced a trio of new AI-powered shopping featu...

Apple is reportedly looking to expand its iPhone's satellite capabilities beyond emergency assistance and texting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Coda Music used the recent backlash around Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek as a way to differentiate itself from the number one streamer, calling out Ek’s controversial funding of defense technology firm Helsing earlier in the year. Coda Music announced a new feature that feels designed to answer another of the recent Spotify controversies: AI slop music flooding the platform. In response, Coda Musi...

"I feel like we're competing with what Instagram should have and could have become, but did not," Patreon CEO Jack Conte said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Broadcom and a company called CAMB.AI are teaming up to bring on-device audio translation to a chipset. This would allow devices that use the SoC to complete translation, dubbing and audio description tasks without having to dip into the cloud. -Next year will see the end arrive for two of Facebook's external social plugins. The platform's Like button and Share button for third-party websites wil...

Apple is reportedly looking to expand its iPhone's satellite capabilities beyond emergency assistance and texting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance have taken another hit in China, with Apple removing two of the countries biggest LGBTQ+ dating apps. Wired reports that Blued and Finka are no longer available on the iOS App Store or certain Android App Stores following orders from the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's internet regulator and censor. Apple told Wired that it must "follow the laws in t...

The company estimated that scams could account for 10 percent of its 2024 revenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed once again to November 19, 2026. The open world game was previously delayed from its 2025 launch window to a May 2026 release earlier this year. -SpaceX is acquiring more spectrum licenses from EchoStar in exchange for about $2.6 billion worth of shares in Elon Musk's aerospace company. The transaction is an expansion of the $...

Meta was slapped with a cease-an-desist letter warning it off comparing its content restrictions to the movie-ratings system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Heineken is teaming with a battery and electric company on a new solution at its Lisbon, Portugal brewery. They're building a 100MWh grid- and solar-powered heat battery that will generate the steam while reducing carbon emissions. -Next year is seemingly going to be the year that Netflix gets aggressive with podcasting. We already knew that the streamer will start licensing video podcasts from S...

Call notifications, full messages, voice message support and other features are included in the app, which is available today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Putting AI in space may sound like a sci-fi nightmare, but Google is thinking about the idea with a research endeavor called Project Suncatcher. The idea is to put power-hungry data centers into orbit on solar-powered satellites, so they can be powered by unlimited, clean energy available 24 hours a day. -Since being placed on a Department of Commerce entity list in 2020 over national security fe...

San Diego, Detroit and Las Vegas are next for the Google subsidiary's driverless taxis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-On Monday, Amazon announced a new multi-year, $38 billion cloud partnership with OpenAI. Amazon expects to deploy all the capacity OpenAI has agreed to buy by the end of 2026, with the option to purchase additional capacity in 2027 and beyond. Amazon says the partnership “will help millions of users continue to get value from ChatGPT.” -Google has pulled the AI model Gemma from its Studio platfor...

SpaceX could build up to 600 satellites that will be used for a high-tech aerial defense system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Elon Musk has told Joe Rogan that he hopes to unveil a flying car "before the end of the year." As Gizmodo has reported, Rogan asked Musk about  the long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster in his show, when the Tesla CEO suddenly started talking about wanting the vehicle to fly. -The Republican-led FCC has voted on and approved a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized...

The Pinterest Assistant can make recommendations based on the items you've saved and the boards you've made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A number of US government agencies are backing a potential move by the Commerce Department to ban TP-Link routers, according to The Washington Post. Multiple sources familiar with internal deliberations spoke with the publication on the condition of anonymity, including a former senior Defense Department official. -Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, have agreed to a one-year pause on th...

It starred an AI-generated, crypto-hawking Jensen Huang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-As part of an AI-focused reorganization, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees that it will offer voluntary buyouts, according to an internal company memo. At the same time, he emphasized that there would be no specific role eliminations as part of the new structure. -It looks like Meta's Vibes feed is just the start of the company's pivot toward AI slop. In an earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

It's also introducing new AI tools for Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Lightroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-When OpenAI launched its TikTok-like Sora app, a key feature was "Cameo" that allows people to add any likeness to videos they generate. Now the maker of Cameo, an app that allows you to buy short videos from celebrities, has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of violating its trademark by using the same name. -Google has been forced to reassure its users that it has not suffered a large-scale data...

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects the next iPad Pro to come with a new M6 chip and a vapor chamber for better cooling performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices