After successfully hiring Google's search and artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea, now Apple's Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, the company has failed to lure Ben Gomes, who was Giannandrea’s top search deputy at the time.
While Siri still has some room to grow, especially in relation to its primary competitors, it's still one of the most-used services under the Apple umbrella. But the company needs to constantly be pushing the needle forward. And, to help with that, it has launched a new app.
Due to COVID, Apple has informed its stay-at-home employees that it's delaying its planned return to in-person office work from October of this year to at least February of next year.
Apple could release titanium iPads in the future, ditching casings made from aluminum alloys.
In years past, Apple used to hold two press events in autumn. But if a new report is accurate, this time around there may be an unprecedented two Apple events in September 2021.
Depending on the version of iPadOS your iPad is running, you might not be able to search for Emojis from your on-screen touch keyboard as you can on your iPhone. Fortunately, there’s now a jailbreak tweak that can help with that!
In case you missed it, the Sileo Team released a substantial update for the Sileo package manager this Thursday morning that brought it up to version 2.2 with a rather extensive change log. In addition to making Sileo compatible with all existing jailbreaks, the update also brought a significant number of new features, bug fixes, and improvements.
Thursday evening, the Sileo Team followed up with the larger and more significant update by launching a secondary smaller update. The latest version of Sileo is now version 2.2.1.
While Apple has set its sights high when it comes to returning to a sense of normalcy in some areas, it may be grasping at straws for its physical retail spaces. At least in some markets. As the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread, there is still a risk of spread and infection. Just as some staff at one Apple Store discovered.
Media player Plex has updated its interface on Apple TV and Roku, bringing a mix of rich layout options that help create a more personalized experience for users.
The majority of TV-related announcements that get covered here at iDB relate to Apple's effort, Apple TV+. However, sometimes there's an Apple-related announcement that's attached to a different streaming service altogether. Today, for instance, we hear that a legendary actor is going to play Apple's current CEO, Tim Cook, in an upcoming show on Showtime.
Facebook Reels, another TikTok competitor, is rolling out on a staggered basis to some people in the United States, who can now watch and create reels from the Facebook app.
Google bills Stadia, its cloud-based gaming platform, as the "one place for all the ways we play." While that's true thanks to the fact that Stadia can be accessed across a range of devices, it turns out that Google's dreams for video games were much, much bigger just last year. So big, in fact, one could call it planned global domination.