Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini How to claim Verizon's $20 credit for Wednesday's service outage It isn't applied automatically, because of course it isn't. Verizon is offering a very small after Wednesday's massive outage, which drew more than 1.5 million reports on Downdetector and lasted hours. The carrier posted on X that it will offer a $20 credit, but customers must redeem it in the myVerizon app. This credit isn't meant to make up for what happened. No credit really can, the company wrote.

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini Issues appear to be concentrated in the eastern United States. Verizon's network appears to be having technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Users on X have reported seeing "SOS" rather than the traditional network bars on their smartphones, and even Verizon's own network status page is struggling to load. Based on the experience of Verizon users on Engadget's staff, the services that are impacted appear to be calls and wireless data. Text messages continue to be delivered normally.

In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but had, over the years, become a joke: Yahoo. He accepted the CEO post from the new private-equity owner Apollo Global Management, which had bought the property from Verizon, the most recent and possibly most clueless caretaker (high bar alert) in a long series of management shifts. Visiting him at the company's offices in New York City, I ask him why he took the job. "I love turnarounds," he says. This is an essay from the latest edition of Steven Levy's Plaintext newsletter.

If you've been thinking of buying Apple's HomePod (2nd generation), now's the time to act -- it's on sale right now at Verizon for 175. That's a significant 125 discount (42 percent off) and represents one of the best deals we've seen on the smart speaker to date. In addition, Verizon is currently offering a deal on the HomePod Mini, letting you get a pair for 150, or 25 percent off. The latest Apple HomePod speaker is on sale at one of the best prices we've seen to date. With sound that's clearer and richer than offerings from Amazon and Google, the second-gen HomePod garnered a solid 84 score in our review last year.

There are many reasons robotics companies fail. From an ill-conceived idea to poor execution or the inability to raise funding, building and running a sustainable robotics company is challenging. This is never a fun recap to write. We don't want to see startups fail, but inevitably many do. The last couple of years have been especially difficult thanks to a global pandemic, economic uncertainties and ongoing supply chain issues.

Verizon now covers more than 175 million people with their ultra fast, ultra reliable 5G Ultra Wideband service, and will offer nationwide 5G Ultra Wideband in Q1 2023. The ongoing C-Band rollout is a full 13 months ahead of the original schedule, and continues to accelerate. Less than 21 months after announcing the results of the FCC's C-band auction and after securing early access to an additional 30 markets this year, Verizon accelerated its build plan and surpassed its goal of reaching 175 million people covered by the end of 2022, a month ahead of schedule. "Our customers don't stand still and neither does our network. Today, more than one out of every two Americans now have access to 5G Ultra Wideband. We know our customers rely on our service every day and we work for them – continuously enhancing, expanding and improving our wireless network," said Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon.

Verizon is using a fleet of drones over southwest Florida to provide cellular connectivity to first responders who working around the clock in search and rescue missions to find survivors who may be trapped inside one of the more than 400 buildings destroyed by Hurricane Ian. Tethered drones that can fly for up to 1,000 hours are beaming down 4G and 5G coverage for an approximate radius of five to seven miles. Cory Davis, National Director for Verizon Frontline's Response Team and Public Safety Operations, told DailyMail.com He explained that along with the drones, Verizon is using satellites that beam down internet from low Earth orbit, generators hitched to trailers and recently sent a portable cell site on a barge to Sanibel Island, which has been completely cut off by the hurricane. Ian hit Lee County, home to Fort Myers, the hardest and Verizon, which is calling the county'ground zero,' is using the most assets to provide communications for first responders who have rescued hundreds of people since the monster storm made landfall last week.

Recently, I joined Verizon's 5G Innovations Session at the award-winning State Farm Arena. The event was attended by a wide range of non-telecom folks--executives from the Atlanta Hawks, Verizon Business customers and other companies leading in their industries but not so familiar with 5G. Through a host of interactive experiences, customers got to engage actively with 5G, learning new ways to streamline, secure and further connect their businesses. The excitement at the event was palpable. Attendees who began as skeptics realized that 5G is not pie-in-the-sky future technology.

Data is now one of the most valuable enterprise commodities. According to CIO.com's State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year, and 58% say their involvement with data analysis will increase over the next year. While data comes in many forms, perhaps the largest pool of untapped data consists of text. Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing. According to Foundry's Data and Analytics Study 2022, 36% of IT leaders consider managing this unstructured data to be one of their biggest challenges.

Daniel Faggella is Head of Research at Emerj. Called upon by the United Nations, World Bank, INTERPOL, and leading enterprises, Daniel is a globally sought-after expert on the competitive strategy implications of AI for business and government leaders. Verizon is the second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and the largest by market capitalization. The company is also the largest wireless provider in the United States with a reported 143 million subscriptions. In its 2021 annual report, the company reported revenues of $126.3 billion.