av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 8, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Nyheter, Threads, Twitter
Apple förbereder en uppdatering som gör det möjligt för tredjepartsutvecklare att släppa renodlade appar för CarPlay. Enligt uppgifter från Bloomberg innebär detta att företag som OpenAI, Anthropic och Google snart kan erbjuda sina AI-tjänster direkt i bilens gränssnitt.
Tidigare har förare tvingats använda krångliga omvägar via telefonens högtalare, men nu öppnas dörren för en betydligt smidigare integration.
Röststyrning i fokus
Den stora nyheten är stödet för avancerade röstlägen. En förare ska kunna be ChatGPT om restaurangförslag eller sammanfattningar av information utan att behöva släppa ratten. Det finns dock tydliga begränsningar i hur djupt dessa botar får integreras.
Apple tillåter inte att Siri byts ut som systemets huvudassistent. Det går exempelvis inte att koppla ratten röstknapp till en annan bot eller använda ett alternativt aktiveringsord. Istället måste föraren starta appen från skärmen, men utvecklare ges möjligheten att låta appen börja lyssna direkt vid uppstart för att minimera antalet klick.
Siri rustas för konkurrens
Samtidigt som Apple välkomnar konkurrenter arbetar de febrilt på en omfattande uppgradering av Siri. Under namnet ”World Knowledge Answers” ska assistenten få förmågan att söka på webben och sammanfatta information på samma sätt som ChatGPT. Apple har även inlett ett samarbete med Google för att driva delar av nästa generations funktioner.
Bredare stöd för nästa generation
Utvecklingen sker samtidigt som CarPlay Ultra börjar rullas ut till fler bilmärken. Det handlar om ett mer djuplodande system som tar över fler av fordonets funktioner. Gränssnittet, som tidigare varit exklusivt för lyxmärken som Aston Martin, väntas nå volymtillverkare som Hyundai och Kia senare i år. Trots motstånd från vissa tillverkare visar rapporter att till och med Tesla nu arbetar på att införa stöd för CarPlay efter år av tveksamhet.
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Wonder Man is the new meta hit series from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but will it be back for season two? Find out below.
The show revolves around two fictional actors – Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) – as they try land roles in a remake of the superhero movie Wonder Man.
Kingsley returns from his role in Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, while Zlatko Buric (Triangle Of Sadness) plays Von Kovak, the director of the Wonder Man remake in the show.
Källa: Will there be a season two of ’Wonder Man’?
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
You’d be hard-pressed to find a long list of actors that have embodied the range of roles Colin Farrell has over the past year-plus.
From playing an oversized and ruthless crime boss on The Penguin to the struggling, down-on-his luck gambler in Ballad of a Small Player to a charming and love-struck stranger who finds love and romance with Margot Robbie in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, the only thing Farrell hasn’t turned out is a slapstick comedy. He’s easily forgiven for that as he’s been getting serious with more work. This year will find him slipping back into familiar shoes as John Sugar in the second season of Apple TV’s Sugar.
Källa: Colin Farrell on ‘Sugar’ Season 2 and How Hard it is to Be Human: “The World is a Really Cruel Place”
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
A US court has ordered Uber to pay $8.5m (£6.2m) to a woman who said she was raped by a man driving for the ride-share company in a legal ruling that could influence the outcome of thousands of other cases against the company.
The federal lawsuit was heard in Arizona, where a jury deliberated for two days, before finding that Uber was responsible for the driver’s behaviour.
Uber said it intended to appeal against the verdict.
The jury rejected additional claims made in the lawsuit, including that Uber had been negligent and that its safety systems were defective.
Källa: Uber ordered to pay $8.5m over claim driver raped passenger
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
Apple’s controversial partnership with Taboola to serve ads on Apple News seems to be going exactly as expected. Here’s why.
Not a great look for Apple’s ever-expanding ad ambitions
In case you’re not familiar with Taboola, it is one of the largest ad-tech companies in the world, with a US$1 billion market cap.
It is also widely known to serve rather low-quality and borderline untrustworthy ads, which was surprising when Axios reported in 2024 that Apple had struck a deal with it to sell and place ads on Apple News.
Källa: Apple dinged over low-quality, scammy-looking ads on Apple News – 9to5Mac
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
As the 2026 Olympic Winter Games begin today, news articles are swelling with juicy claims that male ski jumpers have injected their penises with fillers to gain a flight advantage.
As the rumor goes, having a bigger bulge on a required 3D body scan taken in the pre-season could earn jumpers extra centimeters of material in their jumpsuits—and a suit’s larger nether regions provide more surface area to glide to the gold. Even a small increase can make a satisfying difference in this sport. A 2025 simulation-based study published in the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living suggested that every 2 cm of extra fabric in a ski jumpsuit could increase drag by about 4 percent and increase lift by about 5 percent. On a jump, that extra 2 cm of fabric amounts to an extra 5.8 meters, the simulations found.
Källa: Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge
