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Following pressure from President Donald Trump and a change to the GNIS, Apple Maps has been updated, renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Lake Ontario is now shown as Lake America for Apple Maps users in the United States Apple Maps was drawn into the middle of a trade disagreement between the United States and Canada, by President Trump changing the name of one of the Great Lakes. After being contacted by Trump and nudged to do so, Apple has now updated Maps to update the name of Lake ..

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Today Google is starting to make Google Pics available. Google Pics is a new service that is not to be confused with Google Photos or Google Images. Google Pics is billed by Google as providing you with "a suite of fine-tuned editing capabilities that let you generate images and make precise edits rather than starting from scratch". Why this couldn't just be a Gemini feature is unclear. It is also using Nano Banana, although Google doesn't say which version. Pics is both a standalone product ..

Autonomous crop-spraying aircraft are leading the way in pilot-free flying.

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common method for controlling laboratory equipment, robots, and other programmable physical machines.

Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora said AI is forcing companies to modernize roughly $1 trillion of aging cybersecurity infrastructure that isnt equipped for attacks.

After long delays, JLRs biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. Its mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.

The company will create a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter for NASA by December 31, 2028

You're just a few taps away from getting your Android phone out of safe mode and back to normal.

GoPro plans to expand into AI infrastructure through a $285 million merger with optical-photonics company Starman Optical, whose transceivers will give the action-camera maker a foothold in the fast-growing data center market. GoPro also plans to push into defense, robotics, aerospace, and government markets while continuing its existing camera business. Engadget reports: Starman's optical transceivers are expected to fall under its umbrella, "extending the Company's reach into the large and ..

President Trump reportedly "reached out directly" to the company.

X-Bow Systems received nearly $11 million to develop a low-cost interceptor priced below $750,000, undercutting Patriot missile costs.

How to change the background on iPhone Messages.

Supermicro's new $91,100 AI workstation offers 748GB of memory, dwarfing Apple's Mac Studio while targeting labs, not casual home users.

MapQuest surged to No. 1 after refusing to call Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' unlike Google Maps and Apple Maps.

John Ternus has officially taken over as Apple CEO after 15 years under Tim Cook, stepping up from his role as senior vice president of hardware engineering. A 25-year Apple veteran who helped oversee products including AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, Apple silicon, and the new MacBook Neo, Ternus now inherits the challenge of pushing Apple forward in AI while Cook stays on as executive chairman. TechCrunch reports: Ternus has worked at Apple for nearly half of his life -- now 51 years old, ..

5K is even sharper than 4K UHD, but it's for a specific audience. As a gamer, you won't be able to get as much use out of it as you might think.

The latest release from Meta Superintelligence Lab is a powerful transcription model.

Your Pixel can now explain the drain.

OpenAI confirmed that its unreleased Astra model has reached a dangerous new milestone, even as it preps the model for public release.

Palo Alto Networks' stock has nearly doubled this year as AI boosts demand for security detection and response tools

Dell sees AI server revenue tripling in fiscal 2027. Six months ago, it was looking for the number to double.

Tim Cook was paid approximately $74.3 million through 2025 with his salary and stock grants and bonuses, while new CEO John Ternus will make about $58 million across fiscal 2027 before bonuses are even calculated. John Ternus isn't making quite as much as Tim Cook in the new CEO role The Apple CEO transition has finally occurred with Tim Cook stepping into the Executive Chairman position and John Ternus taking over. While their respective pays have very little to do with the day-to-day ..

There have been plenty of rumors surrounding the color options for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro series, and now theres another one to add to the list. The latest leak reiterates some previous rumors, but notes that the new iPhones will be available in three color options. According to tipster Fixed Focus Digital, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max will be available in Dark Cherry/Burgundy, Sky Blue, and Black colorways. The latest leak contradicts recent rumors that claimed the upcoming ..

Samsung Electronics recently introduced its 2027 Odyssey gaming monitors at Gamescom 2026. This includes the 49-inch DQHD Odyssey OLED G9 with a 360 Hz refresh rate and 0.03 ms response time, the 32-inch 4K Odyssey OLED G8 offering Triple Mode rates up to 680 Hz, the 42-inch 1000R curved Odyssey OLED G7, and the 27-inch Odyssey G6 featuring up to 1,100 Hz refresh rates. No Malaysia release dates yet but the Odyssey G6 is expected in H2 2026.

Boston Scientific and McKesson are working on restoring services after being struck by disruptive cyberattacks.

On Sept. 1, 2026, Sonos debuted the Sonos Ace Ultra headphones, built with next-level ANC and the Beam Ultra soundbar, now with 7.1.2. Dolby Atmos.

OpenAI's data center chief is out after 17 months, and the company had already broken his job into three pieces before he left.

Astra is an unreleased new OpenAI model, which has already solved 10 major math problems that stood open for decades.

Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model aimed at longer-running agentic work. "For enterprise buyers, however, the release is about more than another round of benchmark gains," reports VentureBeat. "Anthropic is simultaneously changing the economics of running persistent agents, reducing the cost of cached context by 75%, and introducing a new security architecture called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, or EFS, designed to let ..

The U.S. Army awarded five firms $2.2 billion to build nuclear microreactors at five bases, aiming to achieve energy independence by 2028.

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Here are Googles latest AI updates from August 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, touting safety gains as AI agent security incidents draw scrutiny

Action camera maker GoPro is merging with private photonics company Starman Optical and joining the AI wave.

OpenAI said it will make Astra available "soon," but access to its cybersecurity capabilities will be limited.

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