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How MapKit for Automotive Puts Apple Maps in Ford EVs
For fifteen years, Apple’s presence in the car has been a projection: CarPlay mirrors your iPhone onto a screen the automaker controls.…
Google Cloud Grows 82% as AI Spending Starts Paying Off
For over a year, Alphabet’s earnings calls have carried the same undertone: analysts asking, with escalating politeness, when the company’s staggering AI…
iOS 27 Public Beta 2 Arrives With Siri AI and Speed Gains
Apple has released the second iOS 27 public beta, nine days after the first. The rebuilt Siri AI headlines, alongside a Screen…
Linux Kernel Development Resources Hosted on kernel.org
The official linux-next integration tree is hosted on kernel.org, the primary official repository for Linux kernel source code and development resources, alongside…
How to Set Up Cloudflare Internal DNS for Your Team
Most teams do not have a DNS problem they talk about in meetings. They have three of them: a public zone file,…
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: Z Fold 8, Galaxy Glasses expected
Samsung hosts Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22, expected to debut the Z Fold 8 line, Galaxy Watch 9, and its…
Apple and Klarna debut lease-to-own iPhone plan
Apple is reportedly teaming with Klarna to launch a lease-to-own program for its devices, letting customers pay over two to three years…
Garmin Cirqa: The $200 Screenless Tracker
Garmin's Cirqa Smart Band is its first screenless fitness tracker — a $200 band with 10-day battery life that takes on Whoop…
Firebat A6 Mini PC Drops to $282: Ryzen 7 7735HS, Radeon 680M
Bottom line: The Firebat A6 delivers a validated, Windows-activated 8-core Zen 3+ mini PC for $282 — roughly $150 less than Amazon…
Cloudflare Internal DNS Goes GA, Unifying Private and Public DNS
Cloudflare Internal DNS is generally available, collapsing public and private DNS onto one policy plane and extending Gateway's Zero Trust rules to…