This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.
Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?
Anthropic’s co-founder and C.E.O. explains why he thinks artificial intelligence is on an “exponential curve.”
Qué son los datos sintéticos y cómo se usarían para entrenar a la IA
Los desarrolladores de modelos se están quedando sin datos para entrenar a sus sistemas y se apoyan ahora en otros generados por la propia tecnología.
Sony debuts new flagship 4K60p Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera with AI auto framing
Sony just unveiled its latest flagship 4K pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera, and it's packing some serious AI smarts into a tiny body. The BRC-AM7 is being billed as the world's smallest and lightest in its category, measuring under 7 inches wide and just over 8 inches tall, while weighing a mere 8 pounds.
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Sun Microsystems co-founder supports forced TikTok sale, calls it China’s “programmable fentanyl”
In an op-ed piece for the Financial Times, Khosla wrote that while many in Silicon Valley are opposed to the government's bill that will force ByteDance to sell TikTok, he staunchly supports it.
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Intel Lunar Lake to offer 45 TOPS of NPU performance, matching Microsoft’s “AI PC” threshold
Going by Gelsinger's assertions, Lunar Lake should also be better for AI workloads than AMD's latest Hawk Point processors that offer 16 TOPS of NPU throughput. While that seems to be on the lower side compared to Lunar Lake, AMD claims that its upcoming Strix Point platform will bring faster...
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Meta will blur images containing nudity in Instagram messages to under 18s
For as long as there have been social media platforms, there have been concerns over their impact on young people, including addiction, mental health damage, being exploited, and falling for scams like sextortion. Instagram and Facebook owner Meta has been under increasing pressure recently to do more to fight these...
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Kobo brings its first color e-reader to the market, starting at $150
On April 30, Kobo will start shipping its new color e-reader models: the $150 Kobo Clara Colour, and the $220 Kobo Libra Colour. Both devices employ the same E Ink Kaleido 3 display technology, while specs, storage capacity and feature availability differ. The Toronto-based company promises the same, improved reading...
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The UK could ban the sale of smartphones to kids under 16
The discussions come as the UK clamps down on smartphones use among young people. In February, the government issued guidance on the use of the devices in English schools in order to reduce disruption and improve behavior. It was suggested that schools could ban handsets by requiring students to leave...
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Apple warns users in 92 countries of mercenary spyware attacks
Apple did not reveal the attackers' identity or list the countries of concern. However, anonymous sources told TechCrunch that iPhone owners in India are among those receiving the alerts. In its message, Apple warned users that they were targets of "a mercenary spyware attack" to compromise their iPhones remotely.
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Apple will soon allow iPhone repairs with used parts
Apple told the Washington Post that initially, iPhone 15 or newer owners will be able to leverage the revised program to replace common components like displays, batteries, and cameras with used parts.
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LattePanda Mu is a Raspberry Pi-like microboard that can work as an x86 mini-computer
While the Raspberry Foundation uses Arm chips for its single-board computers and compute modules, LattePanda has consistently designed its products around Intel x86 chips. LattePanda devices generally come at a higher price point compared to Raspberry Pi boards, but they offer full compatibility with mainstream PC operating systems such as...
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The Humane Ai Pin first reviews are in, and testers are unimpressed
The Humane Ai Pin aims to replace smartphones, but in its current state it appears more like a prototype than a finished product.
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Facebook Messenger now lets you send high-def photos and files up to 100 MB
Facebook Messenger now allows you to send high resolution photos, create shared albums with friends, and send larger files of up to 100MB in your chats.
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Adobe is paying upwards of $7 per minute for original video content to train AI
Copyrighted material is off limits, as is footage containing nudity or other inappropriate or offensive content.
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An old and unreleased beta build of Windows 7 has leaked online
Microsoft ended the official extended support for Windows 7 in January 2020, but Windows 7 is still making news. An old beta build of the OS recently leaked online, offering a glimpse of how development was going back in July 2008.
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Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award for his influential work in computational randomness
On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, a prestigious organization in the field of computer science, awarded mathematician Avi Wigderson the Turing Award. This award, often called the Nobel Prize of Computing, is named after Alan Turing, a pioneer in the field. It is considered one of the highest honors...
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Fallout TV series season 1 is now streaming, Fallout 4’s next-gen upgrade introduces new content on April 25
The first season of Amazon's Fallout TV adaptation is now available. Prime members can binge all eight episodes for free starting today. As the show premiered, Bethesda confirmed that Fallout 4 will receive its long-awaited upgrade for current-generation consoles and PC on April 25.
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Apple said to be prepping several M4 Macs for late 2024 and early 2025 focusing on AI
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is set to launch the M4, the next generation of its in-house processors, late this year and early next year. With this new lineup, Apple is joining the AI PC trend, following in the footsteps of Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.
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