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Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Hit The Water In Pontoon Boat Expansion

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are expanding from the asphalt to open water. MasterCraft has announced a partnership with marine navigation company Savvy Navvy to bring smartphone-mirroring infotainment directly to boat helms across its premium pontoon lineup.

While road cars seamlessly integrate navigation, music streaming, and hands-free communication onto a single dashboard screen, serious boat captains have up till now relied on fragmented helm setups. Standard automotive mapping platforms like Apple Maps and Google Maps have lacked underwater topography, channel markers, and tidal data, forcing boaters to juggle standalone marine chartplotters alongside phone mounts to handle audio and calls.

The Mastercraft-Savvy Navvy combo bridges that gap by running Savvy Navvy directly within the Apple CarPlay and Android Auto UI. Founded in 2017 by former Google software engineer Jelte Liebrand, Savvy Navvy was built to simplify passage planning by replacing stacks of paper charts, tide tables, and marine weather apps...

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Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions

Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s “public roundtable” set for this month

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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful tasks. Named after a technique that removes a model’s tendency to refuse harmful requests, startup Abliteration.ai has turned that removal into a

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Lenovo Unveils New ThinkCentre, ThinkBook And ThinkVision PCs With OLED And Gorgon Halo

Lenovo made many announcements at IFA 2026 this year, which include new ThinkCentre, ThinkBook, and ThinkVision desktops, laptops, and monitors targeting a wide array of use cases, front high-end enterprise PCs to AI development. The Lenovo ThinkVision P27UL-40 is a 27-inch UHD Inkjet Printed OLED display with a 4K resolution

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OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas

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Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions

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OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas