Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, and roofers from advertising on Apple Maps, along with several other sensitive categories, suggesting Apple is taking a more curated approach to these ads.

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.

With Unreal Engine 5 games becoming increasingly common on PC, it is always interesting to see which developers can actually tame Epic Games’ state-of-the-art engine rather than simply brute-forcing their way to good visuals at a massive performance cost. Fatekeeper is a very interesting case in that regard. THQ Nordic and Paraglacial’s dark fantasy first-person RPG is still in a very early access state, so it would be unfair to judge it as if it were a finished product. However, from a technical standpoint, Fatekeeper already manages to stand out as one of the most impressive Unreal Engine 5 releases […]

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Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.

Apple has now publicly rolled out the iOS 26.5 update along with a host of other software updates for its sprawling ecosystem of devices, including iPadOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, HomePod Software 26.5, and macOS Tahoe 26.5. The Apple iOS 26.5 update is a hefty file, one that is big on bug fixes but light on material feature upgrades Apple has now released the 11.98GB iOS 26.5 update file, bringing new wallpapers along with 2 feature upgrades: Elsewhere, the update brings fixes to over 50 security vulnerabilities in iOS 26.5 alone. Did Apple use Clause Mythos to […]

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With PC games growing increasingly complex nowadays — especially ones built on Epic Games's infamous Unreal Engine 5 — default/maxed-out graphics settings rarely (if at all) strike the optimal balance between visual fidelity and performance that most PC gamers seek, and Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss is no exception to this rule. As a demanding UE5 game, it should come as no surprise to many that the game's maxed-out/Epic graphics settings will be very GPU-heavy, and thus should require some tweaking to achieve better performance on most rigs, without hopefully completely sacrificing visual fidelity. This guide should hopefully help you strike […]

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Apple helping an Israeli incursion into the south of Lebanon by suddenly removing nearly every village and town in the area from Apple Maps was not on anyone's bingo card this weekend. Yet, this is exactly what appears to have occured, either as a result of an error or a deliberate move to depopulate the region by virtual means. Apple Maps virtually depopulates the entire south Lebanon As is evident from the X post above, Apple Maps has removed nearly every label for a town or village in the south of Lebanon while clearly preserving such labels for the adjacent […]

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Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.

Apple’s Services arm continues to push ahead by adding revenue streams to reach record-high figures, but its decision to bring ads to Apple Maps may not garner the right kind of attention, according to the latest report. For one thing, the company’s loyal customers, who are in the millions, spend well over a $1,000 on its products. To witness ads, irrespective of how much Apple tries to make them as non-intrusive as possible, will be a punch in the gut. The newest details also highlight the lack of necessity to follow through with this decision, as the App Store already […]

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Apple Maps may soon serve ads in top results when users search on terms like "restaurants."

NVIDIA has announced that CDProjectRed's upcoming title, The Witcher 4, will leverage its updated RTX Mega Geometry technology, offering higher frame rates and lower VRAM usage. CDProjectRed & NVIDIA To Integrate Next-Gen RTX Mega Geometry Technology In The Witcher 4 With its RTX 50 GPUs powered by the Blackwell architecture, NVIDIA introduced a new technology called RTX Mega Geometry. This technology clusters millions of triangles that make up tens of thousands of objects you see in every scene. These clusters are compressed and cached over many frames, where they are intelligently reused as the player traverses the world. This makes […]

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After years of appeals, Google has finally won approval to export high-precision geographic information out of South Korea and provide proper Google Maps services in the country, including walking and real-time driving directions.