How to set default apps on your iPhone

Little by little, Apple has been lessening the restrictions it previously put on iPhone customizations. For example, you can now change all of your homescreen icons to the same color and stick widgets on the lockscreen. Until recently, though, you didn’t have a lot of choice when it came to default apps. Every operating system…

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JetBlue is the first airline to take Venmo payments

Venmo is now an option for paying for flights on jetblue.com. | Photo: Getty Images This month, JetBlue announced it has added Venmo as a payment option for booking a flight on jetblue.com. The company says the feature will come to the JetBlue mobile app later this year. Now, instead of entering your card details or using PayPal, you…

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This year’s Super Bowl will be full of AI ads

You can bet on seeing lots of AI ads during the Super Bowl LIX, according to Mark Evans, the executive VP of ad sales for Fox Sports. Evans told The Hollywood Reporter that AI “will be coming like a freight train,” and that some companies have paid over $8 million for 30-second spots during the…

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Trying out TikTok’s top competitors

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is:…

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