Apple’s relationship with Google as its search partner is taking a new turn with Apple’s introduction of visual search, or “Visual Intelligence” as the iPhone maker dubbed it yesterday during its iPhone 16 event. Already, Apple pays Alphabet roughly $ 20 billion per year to make Google the default search engine in its Safari browser. […]
Female Idol Declares She Faked Orgasms For Her Partners’ Happiness And More
Many celebrities aren’t comfortable sharing TMI (too much information) about their personal life with the public, but one female idol has no such qualms. “Us Without Sex” co-stars Ella Chen, Tony Yang, and Cheryl Yang | @him_ella0618/Instagram Ella Chen, an actress and member of the Taiwanese girl group she S.H.E, recently shared details about her […]
Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with Perplexity to show news summaries
Prediction marketplace Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, is partnering with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to display news summaries of events. When users click on an event on Polymarket, they will now see a summary of news related to the event based on search results from Perplexity. There’s also a search box that […]
Alphabet X spinoff Skip partners with Arc’teryx to bring ‘everyday’ exoskeleton to market
Skip exited stealth this week to announce a partnership with outdoor clothing specialist Arc’teryx. The deal is the first to bring Skip’s MO/GO technology to market: “powered pants” that utilize a soft exoskeleton technology, developed in-house at Alphabet’s X Labs moonshot factory. MO/GO, short for “mountain goat,” is a hybrid soft/rigid exoskeleton system designed to […]
Jio partners with Taiwan’s MediaTek to tap into two-wheeler EV market
India conglomerate Jio has partnered with Taiwanese fabless semiconductor giant MediaTek to supply the booming electric scooter market with digital dashboards. The partnership, which was announced Thursday at an industry event in New Delhi, will bring chips supplied by MediaTek and an Android-based operating system along with hardware developed by Jio to electric scooters in […]