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This week, Apple lastly added assist for Wealthy Communication Providers (RCS) to Messages as a part of the second developer beta of iOS 18. Till now, iPhone customers might solely ship SMS or MMS messages from the Messages app to individuals who didn’t have an Apple gadget. Now you possibly can share high-quality photographs and get learn receipts and typing indicators whereas messaging with Android customers — however textual content bubbles are nonetheless inexperienced.
OpenAI is delaying the discharge of its new Voice Mode. The corporate had deliberate to start out rolling out superior Voice Mode in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers in late June however stated that lingering points pressured it to postpone the launch to someday in July. Relying on inner security and reliability checks, Superior Voice Mode may not launch for all ChatGPT Plus prospects till the autumn, the corporate says.
The FCC proposed a better approach for shoppers to unlock their telephones from their carriers, suggesting that each one units have to be unlockable simply 60 days after buy. The rule would doubtlessly enable telephones to work with completely different cell networks after that point interval, however it might run afoul of at present’s cellphone and wi-fi markets.