Waymap, the company behind the app-based navigation tool, claims the 31,000-capacity cricket stadium is the world’s first sports arena to be fitted with a personal GPS that aims to offer a fine-grain version of traffic satnavs for stadiums, shopping centres and transport networks.
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Waymap used a £50,000 camera to scan every staircase, walkway, slope, doorway and concourse to create a digital twin of the historic cricket ground, allowing its app to guide people metre-by-metre to their destination.
The app has risen to prominence at a time when the industry is in widespread panic that going to the cinema, as a hobby, is in an unstoppable decline. Younger people in particular are more likely to eschew the big screen in favour of staying home and streaming. Letterboxd – a communal celebration of cinema purism – may be a key way of securing the medium’s survival.
While Spotify paid out a record $10 billion (US) in royalties in 2024, fewer than 1 percent of artists made more than $6,000 from the platform. In 2021, according to SOCAN, the average Canadian songwriter earned just $67 from streaming that year.
Yet artists have no choice but to obsess over their streaming numbers. Talent buyers and festival programmers largely decide who to book based on Spotify’s “monthly listeners” metric. “This number is the bane of my existence,” says Pemberton. “It is the number-one metric that every promoter, every booker, every label, every entity in the music industry looks at to decide whether or not you’re someone they should care about.”
Artists now need to make money elsewhere—but other revenue sources, too, are drying up. Artificial intelligence can now create high-quality songs in any genre, mood, or language, a development that threatens to rob artists of commercial opportunities, including producing backing tracks, scoring films, and writing jingles. It’s not hard to imagine a music supervisor prompting a bot to create an “instrumental upbeat indie-pop song in the key of D major” instead of hiring the human artists on whose music the AI trained.
Regardless of how Apple made this possible, I’m thrilled that AirPods are now a good solution for recording long voice memos or voiceover for quick videos. Would I use AirPods instead of my microphone to record my weekly podcasts? No, but for everything else – whether it’s recording voice notes or hopping on a non-podcast Zoom call – this means I can now use AirPods without having to say, “Sorry, I’m using AirPods for this”.
AI is a tool that can do some amazing things—but programmers (and Shortcuts creators) will still need to apply adult supervision.
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And therein lies the rub with all of this. The results are neither reliable nor necessarily repeatable. The same data run through this shortcut multiple times provides different answers: I’d think that anathema (not to mention madness inducing) to the sensibilities of any programmer.
Apple has warned of an incompatibility issue between watchOS 26 beta 2 and the Hermès watch, believed to be due to a problem with the watch faces unique to that model.
The home screen layout has been revamped, with upcoming games now separated by league. You can further personalize the list by re-ordering the sections to their preference, so you can make the sports you are most interested in appear first, and starred teams always show at the very top.
This week, Fitness+ launched a set of new workouts and a “Time to Walk” episode, all inspired by the Apple Original Film starring Brad Pitt.
The integrated Find My card provides five months of battery life with a full charge. It can be recharged by placing it on any Qi or MagSafe charger.
Didn't we were promised that, with the internet, we will no longer need any middleman?
Then, of course, all-you-can-eat subscription services, the ultimate middleman, appear.
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