Rivian is bringing Apple Music with spatial audio to its CarPlay-less EVs - Technology news - NewsLocker (2024)

Photo by Daniel Golson for The Verge Rivian isn’t offering phone mirroring features like Apple CarPlay in its electric vehicles, so the company is instead pushing a new software update today that adds built-in Apple Music streaming support, which might scratch customers’ connectivity itch.
Last month, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said on Decoder that CarPlay can’t leverage other parts of the vehicle experience and takes control away from automakers. In this case, control comes in the

Lincoln’s massive digital dash fits right into the new Navigator

The 2025 Lincoln Navigator Black Label in crystal white. | Image: Lincoln Lincoln is making a big change to the largest vehicle in its lineup by adding a panoramic display across the dashboard. The 2025 Navigator SUV is the automaker’s second vehicle to get the Android-based digital dashboard developed by Ford, with its first implementation introduced in the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus.
The new Navigator, which is making its debut during Monterey Car Week, takes the Nautilus’ Panoramic Dis

Geekbench has an AI benchmark now

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The popular benchmarking utility Geekbench has launched a new cross-platform tool to evaluate the performance of devices under AI-heavy workloads. Geekbench AI measures a device’s CPU, GPU, and NPU (neural processing unit) to determine how well it can handle machine learning applications.
Geekbench developer Primate Labs has been working on the software using the name Geekbench ML, which launched in preview in 2021 but shifted the name to AI for reasons that

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Google’s upgraded AI image generator is now available

Imagen 3 created this image of Google’s logo. | Image: Emma Roth / Imagen 3 Google has released the latest version of Imagen 3, its AI text-to-image generator, to users in the US, as spotted by VentureBeat. The tool, which you can access on Google’s AI Test Kitchen, is supposed to generate images with “better detail, richer lighting, and fewer distracting artifacts” compared to Google’s previous models.
Google first announced its updated Imagen 3 tool during I/O in

Meta’s VR version of GTA: San Andreas is ‘on hold indefinitely’

This is a screenshot from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition. We never saw footage of the VR port. | Image: Rockstar Games The Quest version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which was first announced nearly three years ago, is “on hold indefinitely,” Meta confirmed to IGN and in a comment on a YouTube video. “GTA: San Andreas is on hold indefinitely while we both focus on other projects,” the Meta Quest VR account said in response to a comment o

You can now use the Meta Quest as a screen for HDMI devices

With the right hardware, you can now connect the Meta Quest to devicesHDMI or DisplayPort output. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Meta has released a new app for the Quest 3, 2, and Pro, letting you use the headsets as a screen for consoles, laptops, or any device with video out capabilities. Using the free Meta Quest HDMI Link app does require additional hardware, but it’s still a relatively cheap way to repurpose the headset, instead of buying single-purpose video glasses that

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Californians will soon be able to add their driver’s licenses in Apple Wallet

Illustration: The Verge Some California residents will be able to add their driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet soon, Apple announced Thursday.
Apple’s announcement doesn’t say when the mobile driver’s licenses will be rolled out, just that it will happen “this fall” as part of California’s mobile driver’s license (mDL) pilot. The pilot, which will be limited to 1.5 million participants, will let users traveling through certain terminal

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Another blow to the US’ offshore wind ambitions

Attendees during a media tour of the Revolution Wind construction hub at the Port of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island, US, on Thursday, June 13, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Offshore wind energy giant Ørsted is pushing back the start date for Revolution Wind, the project it’s building off the coasts of Rhode Island and Connecticut.
It’s a another setback to the Biden administration’s hopes of sourcing clean energy from new offshore wind farms that have faced a

OpenAI’s new voice mode threw me into the uncanny valley

OpenAI It’s strange to sit down at my desk and talk to an AI about my life — but that’s what I spent my Tuesday doing.
I’d gotten access to OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, the new ChatGPT feature that sounds strangely like a human. When counting quickly, it’ll pretend it’s out of breath. It says “um” and “uh.” It laughs. It changes tone when talking about difficult or upbeat topics. After messing around with it, I felt equal parts a

Woot is taking up to $200 off the Sonos Arc and second-gen Sonos Beam

Sonos’ midrange Beam soundbar might not sound as immersive as the Arc, but it’s a step up from the built-in speakers on your TV. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s been a rough few months for Sonos fans, but there has been at least some good news sprinkled in with the bad. Sonos might be relaunching its old app, for one, and right now, Woot is offering steep cuts on several Sonos products. The ongoing “Random Audio” sale includes the Sonos Five speaker and the

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Suggestions for how the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts can entertain themselves

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Probably you have already heard that astronauts Barry ”Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams may not be able to leave on the Boeing Starliner that brought them to the International Space Station. I have been thinking about it in quiet moments — when I wake up in the morning, on hikes, in the shower.Those guys popped up there on June 5th, and they were supposed to spend a week on the ISS doing normal astronaut stu

Google Pixel phones sold with security vulnerability, report finds

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Most Google Pixel phones sold since September 2017 included software that could be used to surveil or remotely control users’ phones, according to a new report from the cybersecurity company iVerify.
The vulnerability was discovered after iVerify’s endpoint detection and response (EDR) scanner flagged an insecure Android device at Palantir Technologies, an iVerify client. After launching a joint investigation, iVerify, Palantir, and Trai

Threads is testing several new features like scheduling and analytics

Image: Threads Meta is testing a handful of new features on Threads, its X competitor, the company announced today.
The new additions range from options that the average Threads user might appreciate to content management tools that feel more directly aimed at brands. Threads, which just passed the one-year mark since its official launch on July 5th, 2023, now has more than 175 million monthly active users, including some celebrities and brand accounts.
The most useful new feature, in my opinion

Activision is finally doing something about Call of Duty’s giant downloads

Image: Activision Call of Duty games have famously giant file sizes, but ahead of the October 25th launch of Black Ops 6, Activision is going to make some changes so that Call of Duty titles don’t take up as much space on your hard drive — including separating Warzone from the default download for the annual games.
The default separation of Warzone is happening soon: on August 21st, alongside the launch of Season 5 Reloaded. As part of that, when you download an annual Call of Duty g

Sennheiser’s heart-tracking ANC earbuds are on sale for almost $80 off

The Momentum Sport earbuds come in a few different color options, but the only vibrant hue is olive. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Sennheiser Momentum Sport earbuds are a pretty unique piece of tech, as the noise-canceling buds feature an embedded heart rate tracker for monitoring your performance during runs and exercises. They’re also normally on the pricey side at $329.95, but right now, the olive and graphite colors are discounted to a new low of $254.06 (a savings

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Rivian’s new fold-and-stow electric kitchen lets you cook atop your tailgate

Image: Rivian Rivian is selling a travel kitchen accessory for the first time. This is not the comprehensive campsite device it advertised years ago (but never released) that slid out the side of the company’s electric R1T trucks. Instead, this new one is compact and lightweight, designed to sit on a vehicle’s tailgate.
Simply called the Travel Kitchen, it folds out to span the length of the tailgate and features two induction burners, a cutting board that stows away in an organizer

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches this fall

Image: BioWare BioWare is announcing the release date for Dragon Age: The Veilguard and sharing a new trailer to commemorate the occasion. Players will be able to return to Thedas — the name of the game’s world that is simultaneously a clever acronym for The Dragon Age Setting — on October 31st, more than 10 years after the release of the previous game, Dragon Age: Inquisition.Oh man, there’s some lore going on in this new trailer. Up until now, fans assumed that Solas, a

Groyper war, dark elves, bugmen: how the GOP ticket is reviving far-right beef

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Antisemitic streamer, Holocaust denier, Charlottesville rally attendee, and January 6th instigator Nick Fuentes disavowed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last week, claiming the America First movement had been “hijacked” by “consultants, lobbyists, & donors.”The news that Fuentes had declared a “groyper war” on his preferred presidential candidate has sparked some claims that Trump is losing support among a core

The HoverAir X1selfie drone is getting big resolution upgrades in two new versions

Zero Zero Robotics hasn’t yet revealed pricing or a ship date for the HoverAir X1 Pro and X1 Pro Max selfie drones. | Image: Zero Zero Robotics One of the shortcomings of the recently reviewed HoverAir X1 selfie drone was that its camera could only capture video at 2.7K/30fps resolutions. Zero Zero Robotics will soon resolve this issue with two upgraded versions of the drone that it’s been teasing on its website, as spotted by DIYPhotography.
The HoverAir X1 Pro will be able to captu

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Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources

Illustration: The Verge As Google brings AI Overviews to six new countries, it’s also changing the way the generated summaries display citations. Instead of putting relevant webpages directly in the AI-generated summary, Google is adding a new display to the right of the response that shows cited webpages more prominently.
This new format is rolling out today, and it will also show up on mobile when you select the site icons that appear in the top-right corner of the AI Overview. “We

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