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Apple just closed a popular workaround for buying an unlocked iPhone

Apple and its carrier partners have closed a workaround that let shoppers buy an unlocked iPhone with carrier financing. The change appears to have gone into effect this month. Prior to this change, you could buy an iPhone directly from Apple with carrier financing through T-Mobile or Verizon, and the iPhone would be unlocked. This […]

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Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models

AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separate businesses dedicated to deploying AI engineers to their customers’ offices — a bet that assisting businesses in figuring out how

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced studio Ubisoft Barcelona goes on three-day strike in protest of layoffs

"Enough with the unjustified cuts!" Layoffs at Ubisoft Barcelona – which also supports the development of Rainbow Six Siege – were first announced in June, amid news of major restructuring at the publisher, and 51 workers at the studio are believed to be impacted. While layoffs have begun, negotiations are ongoing and the remaining developers

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OpenAI’s hardware device may partly compete with AirPods Ultra – and lose

Jony Ive and Sam Altman made a big promise when they teased the launch of a completely new concept in AI hardware more than a year ago. The most recent report suggests that OpenAI may technically be delivering on this promise, but could end up at least partly competing with an upcoming AirPods model. If

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Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Voice AI startups’ biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing and customer support. Large organizations are offloading calls to voice model developers like ElevenLabs and Deepgram; infrastructure companies like Vapi, Retell, and LiveKit; and dedicated customer support shops like Decagon and Sierra. San Francisco-based Rime is trying to gain

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Spotify’s managed accounts are no longer limited to Premium subscribers

Starting today, Spotify users in several countries can create a managed account for their child without a Premium subscription. Here are the details. With Spotify’s managed accounts, parents can filter explicit content, block specific artists or songs, turn off videos, and keep their child’s listening history separate from their own recommendations and, perhaps more importantly

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Google Wallet is working on two new tricks, and one could help verify your age online

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Digital payments make our lives a whole lot easier, especially saving us the ordeal of keeping track of the exact loose change. But if there’s one aspect that adds friction to digital spending, it’s keeping on top of your expenses, especially when you

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Dead Space series co-creator and industry veteran Glen Schofield announces his retirement in emotional video

"Explore, experiment, enjoy, and don't forget that the most important thing is the idea." “After 35 years of making games and directing them, running teams, it’s time for me to officially retire from the day-to-day work,” Schofield said. “It’s been such an amazing career and I have so many people to thank for it, but

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The devil works hard but AI ripoffs work harder as Meccha Chameleon falls victim to hordes of copycats coming out of the woodwork

It’s an unfortunate rite of passage nowadays for popular indie games to have their concept taken from them by ripoffs that are devoid of any real creativity. The latest casualty? Meccha Chameleon, which has now been pilferred by copycats across Steam, Fortnite, and Roblox. The most egregious example, and the one that brought this to

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