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Owners of some iPhones are in line to get cash payments of up to $95 from Apple after the company on Tuesday reached a $250 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit for false advertising of its artificial intelligence capabilities. Apple trumpeted new AI features for its virtual assistant Siri when it rolled out the iPhone 16 in 2024, part […]
Oprah Winfrey’s podcast is headed to Amazon. Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Entertainment, struck a multiyear deal to give Amazon-owned Wondery exclusive distributing and advertising rights to “The Oprah Podcast,” the companies announced Monday. Under the agreement, Winfrey’s podcast will expand to two new episodes a week starting this summer — and Wondrey will distribute the show’s […]
Facebook was the most popular platform for social media scammers, the FTC reports. Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase since 2020, according to a report released Monday by the Federal Trade Commission. Nearly 30% of Americans who reported being a victim of a scam last year said the […]
The death of a 75-year-old woman has led to an updated recall of more than 400,000 Casely wireless chargers. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Casely reannounced a recall of about 429,000 Casely Power Banks 5000mAh portable MagSafe wireless phone chargers on April 16 after one woman died using the charger and another sustained first-degree burns. […]
Apple on Monday named John Ternus as its new chief executive officer, effective Sept. 1, and said that Tim Cook would take the role of executive chairman. The transition will end Cook’s 15-year run as one of the most successful technology CEOs in modern history. “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to […]
Roblox Corporation said it will introduce new age-based accounts for young users as the company seeks to step up safety measures on its online gaming platform. Roblox said the accounts, which will roll out in early June, will tailor content, communication and parental controls more closely to users’ ages. The California-based company said it will automatically […]
Android phone users can now claim their portion of a class-action settlement connected to Google’s collection of their data. The lawsuit, Taylor v. Google LLC, alleged that Google needlessly collected cellular data that it purchased from mobile carriers. The company denied wrongdoing in the settlement. Glen Summers, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a court filing that he […]
The April 15 tax deadline is only days away now, and if you’re feeling like you could use just a little more time, take it. Instead of filing a return by April 15, you can opt to file a short, less than one-page form for an automatic extension until Oct. 15 with no questions asked. You’ll basically […]
Would you send your child to a private school with no teachers and learning driven by AI? And would you pay to do so? Alpha Schools, a private school that teaches students entirely using artificial intelligence programs, is now enrolling for classes in Chicago this fall. The schools will teach from kindergarten through eighth grade […]
The IRS is warning taxpayers about the potential for AI-generated tax-collection scams as Tax Day approaches. In a release last month, the agency identified AI-enabled robocalls as one of its annual “Dirty Dozen” tax scams to watch for during the 2026 tax season. An AI-generated phone call intercepted by the company Nomorobo, which specializes in identifying and blocking […]
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