How Well Does Apple’s Live Translation Work for Japanese? I Tested It in Tokyo.
A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi classes and even a fire ritual.
FRIDAY, 26 DECEMBER 2025, 22:55
A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi classes and even a fire ritual.

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Michael Truell, the 25-year-old CEO and cofounder of Cursor, is drawing a sharp distinction between careful AI-assisted development and the more hands-off approach commonly known as “vibe coding.” Speaking at a conference, Truell described vibe coding as a method where users “close your eyes and you don’t look at the code at all and you just ask the AI to go build the thing for you.” He...

Tallinn, Estonia (PinionNewswire) — Apirone has announced a completely updated dashboard, built from the ground up on its own design system. This release marks a significant milestone for the company as it continues to refine user experience and establish a foundation for future development. Elements of style According to the team, the redesign goes far […]

Under a revised unbundling plan approved by electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Eskom will continue to own and control the country’s transmission infrastructure,.

London, UK (PinionNewswire) — When Ripple (XRP) prices fell below the key $2 support level, market sentiment was quickly gripped by panic. However, in stark contrast to the pessimistic tone on social media, savvy money is quietly shifting: in the past two weeks, user demand and asset allocation volume on the innovative digital asset strategy […]

Tallinn, Estonia (PinionNewswire) — As 2025 comes to a close, Apirone has reached one of its most transformative years yet. Throughout the year, the team focused on expanding ecosystem support, improving performance, and delivering new tools that make crypto operations faster, smoother, and more accessible for users. The year was marked not only by new […]

One increasingly essential service has defied inflation in South Africa over the last decade.
Google appears to be testing a feature that would let users change their @gmail.com address for the first time, according to an official support document. The support page exists only in Hindi, suggesting an India-first rollout, and Google notes that users will “gradually begin to see this option.” The feature would let users switch to a new @gmail address while retaining full access to their...
Apple has agreed to a settlement with Brazil’s antitrust regulator that will require the company to allow third-party app stores on iPhones and permit developers to direct users to external payment options, marking another country where Apple’s tightly controlled App Store model is being pried open by government action. Brazil’s Administrative Council of Economic Defense approved the settlement...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell scripts that infect Windows systems with the ‘Cosmali Loader’. BleepingComputer has found that multiple MAS users began reporting on Reddit yesterday that they received pop-up warnings on their systems about a Cosmali Loader infection....

One Battle After Another, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, and It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley are just a few of the movies you should be watching on HBO Max this month.
Goldman Sachs analysts have identified a notable shift in how investors respond to corporate layoff announcements, finding that even job cuts attributed to automation and AI-driven restructuring are now causing stock prices to fall rather than rise. The investment bank linked recent layoff announcements to public companies’ earnings reports and stock market data, concluding that stocks dropped...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored. The death of the former head of China’s one-child policy agency — which for decades forced women to carry out abortions and sterilizations — sparked criticism of the demographic effort, with one netizen...
Prominent business and government figures spread rumors about the attack on Brown University’s campus this month, reigniting questions about accountability in online discourse.
Framework has announced yet another price increase for memory modules, the second in roughly a month, and the company is now actively encouraging customers to source their own RAM elsewhere if they can find better deals. The laptop maker cited “extreme memory shortages and price volatility” as the reason for the hike, noting that 32GB modules and smaller currently cost around $10 per gigabyte...

We can share images and sounds, so why not smells? Dr Kate McLean-MacKenzie hopes her new atlas will make scents
Christmas may be associated with the aromas of oranges and mince pies but our towns and cities also boast special scents during the rest of the year. Now, one researcher is publishing an atlas attempting to capture these quirky “smellscapes”.
Dr Kate McLean-MacKenzie, a designer and...
Waymo’s fleet of autonomous robotaxis can navigate city streets and compete with human taxi drivers, but they become stranded when a passenger leaves a door ajar — prompting the company to pay tow truck operators around $20 to $24 through an app called Honk just to push a door shut. The owner of a towing company in Inglewood, California, completes up to three such jobs a week for Waymo,...
Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led the startup’s latest financing round in September. From a report: Davis, whose firm has invested more than half a billion dollars in Groq since the company was founded in 2016, said the deal came...
The Trump administration has announced it would replace the lottery programme used to grant H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers with a system that prioritises higher-paid individuals. From a report: The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin to implement a “weighted” selection process to give an advantage to higher-skilled and higher-paid applicants from February, according to a...