Target said this morning that its highly anticipated Target Circle Week sale event will kick off on July 7. As its name suggests, the sale will run for a full week, ending July 13. That means Target's shopping event will come to a close just a few days before the start of Amazon's popular Prime Day sale event, which was announced today as well.During Target's event, Target Circle members will be able to score top savings across various categories, ranging from household items to electronics to toys. The dea ...

Waymo said on Tuesday it's making its driverless ridehailing service available to anyone in San Francisco -- no wait list required. To get a lift in one of the company's autonomous vehicles, just download the Waymo One app and put in your destination. The self-driving arm of Google's parent company Alphabet has been operating in San Francisco since 2009, and rolled out fully autonomous rides in the area in late 2022. Waymo One is also available to all public riders in metro Phoenix and to select members of ...

Apple has broken EU laws designed to rein in the power of big tech, the European Competition Commission announced Monday. The tech titan's App Store rules prevent app developers from steering users towards alternative channels, such as their websites, where they might be able to offer customers better deals and offers, the regulator said.The Competition Commission also opened an additional investigation to decide whether the "core technology fee," which Apple charges developers, is compliant with EU rules.T ...

Apple has broken EU laws designed to rein in the power of big tech, the European Competition Commission announced Monday. The tech titan's App Store rules prevent app developers from steering users towards alternative channels, such as their websites, where they might be able to offer customers better deals and offers, the regulator said.The Competition Commission also opened an additional investigation to decide whether the "core technology fee," which Apple charges developers, is compliant with EU rules.T ...

Amazon is considering charging customers around $5-$10 a month to access a premium version of its Alexa voice assistant as part of a major revamp of the platform, according to a Reuters report. It's not the first time the idea has been made public. In January, reports surfaced that Amazon would release a paid subscription version of Alexa in June, though that hasn't happened yet.A spokesperson for Amazon didn't comment on the possible fee for a premium service but did confirm that generative AI figures heav ...

Just about every company in tech has jumped on the artificial intelligence bandwagon by now, and Apple is no exception. What makes it a little different is how it plans to handle the data security and privacy issues that come with AI.At its annual WWDC event earlier this month, the company unveiled Apple Intelligence, its own flavor of AI, which Apple pledges will set a new standard for AI privacy and security. That's despite its plans to "seamlessly integrate" OpenAI's ChatGPT into its products and softwar ...

The US government, acting on a referral from the Federal Trade Commission, filed suit against Adobe on Monday for reportedly making its subscriptions confusing and costly to cancel. The suit alleges that Adobe, among other things, hides the existence of an early termination fee when users sign up for the annual subscription plan, revealing the fee only when a subscriber tries to cancel. Adobe's products include Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Reader and others."During enrollment, Adobe hides material terms ...

AT&T is joining the ranks of wireless carriers jacking up the prices of its older plans. The carrier has begun informing users, including with a support page on its website, that starting with their August bill it plans to raise rates by $10 per month for those with just a single line of service or $20 per month if you have multiple lines. According to the support page, the carrier says that the price increase will "affect most of our older unlimited plans" including: AT&T Unlimited & More PremiumAT&T Unlim ...

Two years after it was unveiled and less than a year after it rolled out in the US, Apple's Pay Later feature is being shut down, according a report Monday from 9to5Mac. The Apple Pay feature allowed users to take out loans and pay for purchases from $50 to $1,000 in four installments. The service, offered in cooperation with Mastercard and Goldman Sachs would be replaced by a built-in feature in the upcoming iOS 18 that allows for third-party buy now, pay later loan companies such as Affirm to do the same, ...

Sometime soon, Apple may be hoping you do a double-take when you see an iPhone. That's because the company is reportedly planning thinner redesigns for its iPhones next year to compliment thinner and lighter Apple Watches, MacBook Pro laptops and iPad tablets.The company's dramatic reveal of the iPad Pro earlier this year was the "beginning of a new class of Apple devices," according to a new report from Bloomberg, which said Apple plans to announce some of its thinnest and lightest products across the tech ...