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 While the spotlight has been on CarPlay Ultra lately, the regular version of CarPlay is set to receive some enhancements alongside iOS 26.
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Find out when game 1 between the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder begins and the best ways to watch without cable.
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Joining the "joyful revolution" happening in the refurbished tech space is good for the planet and for dodging tariffs.
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Taking an in-depth look at how the Apple TV deals with privacy, Ars Technica reveals that a technology called automatic content recognition, or ACR, isn't part of the device's software stack.
A popular feature amongst smart TV and streaming device manufacturers, ACR is a feature that acts like a "detective taking fingerprints," literally tracking every pixel displayed on the screen and matching them to a massive database of TV programs, all in the effort to find out what you're watching.
In some cases, ACR is employed in a way that benefits cord-cutters. For example, some Roku TVs will use ACR to find streaming episodes of a show you're watching via an over-the-air antenna or a cable tuner.
That's certainly helpful, but here's the real reason streaming manufacturers love ACR: more cash in their pockets. Advertisers and other third parties will pay handsomely for the viewing data gathered by ACR software, which is often how Amazon, Roku, and other players in the streaming market manage to sell their TVs and streaming players for such low prices.
If the idea behind ACR sounds creepy, it is, and it's practically everywhere—except in Apple TV streaming boxes, that is.
In its report, Ars Technica notes that Apple doesn't put ACR in its Apple TV and Apple TV 4K devices, a major plus for privacy-minded cord-cutters.
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 A landmark 17-year study has found that a workable exercise plan significantly improves survival and enduring health of people who have experienced colorectal cancer. So much so that, as one of the researchers noted, "Our findings will change the way we treat colon cancer."
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 The alleged name of macOS 26 (yes) has leaked.
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 Apple's next Apple Watch activity challenge is set to take place on June 4 to celebrate Global Running Day. Apple started hosting an activity challenge for running day last year.
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The appeal of promising network technologies can be jaded by pressure to adopt untested ideas. When I look over the comments I've gotten from enterprise technologists this year, one thing that stands out is that almost three-quarters of them said that entrenched views held by company executives is a "significant problem" for them in sustaining their network and IT operations.
"Every story that comes out gets me a meeting in the board room to debunk a silly idea," one CIO said. I've seen that problem in my own career and so I sympathize, but is there anything that tech experts can do about it? How do you debunk the "big hype" of the moment?
For starters, don't be too dismissive. Technologists agree that a dismissive response to hype cited by senior management is always a bad idea. In fact, the opening comment that most technologists suggested is "I agree there's real potential there, but I think there are some near-term issues that need to be resolved before we could commit to it." The second-most-cited opening is "I've already launched a study of that, and I'll report back to you when it's complete." There's usually a grain (yeah, often a small grain) of truth underneath the hype pile, and the best approach is to acknowledge it somehow and play for time. Hype waves are like the tides; they come in and they go out, and many times management will move on.
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