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Mac RumorsAug 21, 2026
Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores
After years of holding out, Walmart today announced that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay in some of its Walmart and Sam's Club stores in the U.S. starting Monday, August 24. The retailer plans to roll out tap-to-pay support to all of its U.S. stores by the end of 2026 and to its gas stations by mid-2027.


Mac RumorsAug 21, 2026
Camera AirPods Code Reveals Image Capture Resolution, Status Light, Person Detection, and More
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods, as indicated by various reports and a demo video of them in action discovered earlier this week. The video was found by MacRumors in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, but it turns out there are even more details in the code.

Mac RumorsAug 21, 2026
Apple Reportedly Lays Off 60 Vision Products Group Employees
Apple "has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development," reports AppleInsider, citing its own source. Apple is said to have laid off at least 60 employees from its Apple Vision Group.


New York Times TechAug 20, 2026
The Funny Way That Stand-Up Comics Are Posting on Social Media
Comedians used to post footage of their performances to build a following. Now, some are finding that comic strip-style panels with captions pack a bigger punch.

Mac RumorsAug 20, 2026
Apple Card Turns Seven With Big Change Ahead
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Apple Card becoming widely available in the U.S., following a more limited preview period.


Mac RumorsAug 20, 2026
Apple Watch Alerted Runner to Serious Heart Problem
In a new ad shared on its YouTube channel today, Apple highlighted how the Apple Watch alerted an athlete named Connor to signs of atrial fibrillation. Apple said doctors later uncovered that Connor had a congenital heart condition, which resulted in him having open-heart surgery, so the Apple Watch potentially saved his life.


Mac RumorsAug 20, 2026
iOS 27 Shared Albums Go Full Res at the Cost of Your iCloud Storage
In iOS 27, new Shared Albums you create in the Photos app retain full-resolution quality for the first time, but they now eat into your iCloud storage - and that includes any items added by other people invited to contribute.


EngadgetAug 20, 2026
Roblox vows to make changes after Australian regulator found yet more child safety lapses
Australia's safety regulator found Roblox still allows adults to contact children after years of pledging to stop it.

New York Times TechAug 17, 2026
AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough.
Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig out of a digital sewage heap full of low-quality content made with artificial intelligence.

ResearchBuzzAug 13, 2026
SE FireMap Viewer 2.0, Professional Publications of Ukraine, Google, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, August 13, 2026
NEW RESOURCES USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service: Following the Fire Enhanced Data Strengthens Digital Conservation Decision-Making. "The SE FireMap Viewer 2.0 is a geospatial platform tool that helps land managers, fire practitioners, […]

ComputerWorldAug 06, 2026
OpenAI's ‘Rotten to the core' defense is its weakest play yet
Ancient Greek sophist Protagoras famously said, "There are two sides to every question." But OpenAI's latest attempt at reality distortion seems determined to narrow this dispute to just one. In its motion to reject Apple's complaint, the company does not meaningfully acknowledge the criticisms levelled against it, preferring instead to recast the case as a grievance over talent retention and product-market failure.

The filing In case you missed the news, OpenAI filed a motion to the court to dismiss Apple's recent lawsuit against it. In that filing, OpenAI argued that, "Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its shortcomings in the market for talent and retaining its employees, and its failures to integrate AI into its products."

The company's dismissal claims Apple's case was, "plainly filed without adequate investigation and built on selectively excerpted communications and ordinary conduct stripped of context," adding, i


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ComputerWorldJul 24, 2026
Google's anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed
A court has dismissed Google's case against SerpApi over that company's scraping of search results to train AI models.

The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there was no indication that any copyright had been breached.

Google announced in December that it was suing SerpApI for its alleged web scraping, claiming that it was protecting copyright holders. In February, SerpApI fought back and asked the court to dismiss Google's case. And this week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers agreed with SerpApi that Google's case has no merit.

Google's argument was that SerpApi's actions breached the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). It made two claims: first, that no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title, and second that no person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, or component protected by the Act.

SerpApi claimed that the URLs and other links that were being served by Google did not in themselves entail copyright and the judge agreed. In h

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