Apple Launches AirPods Max 2 With Better ANC, Live Translation Apple has quietly announced the AirPods Max 2, featuring improved active noise cancellation, an H2 chip, and new features like adaptive audio and AI-powered real-time translation. Like the original model, these headphones start at $549. The Verge reports: As noted by Apple, the AirPods Max 2 offer active noise-cancellation that's 1.5 times more effective when compared to its predecessor. Transparency mode, which allows you to hear your surroundings while wearing the headphones, also sounds "mor… Apple to celebrate 50 years of thinking different Apple today announced it will mark its 50th anniversary, celebrating five decades of thinking different and the innovations that helped shape the world. These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high There is an Israeli military strategy called the “fog procedure”. First used during the second intifada, it’s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions of low visibility to shoot bursts of gunfire i… Apple acquires video editing software company MotionVFX The move could help Apple better compete with Adobe Premiere Pro, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. MLB test of robot umpires for checked swing calls moving up to Triple-A Major League Baseball’s experiment of a robot umpire technology system allowing challenges to checked swing calls is moving from Class A to Triple-A UConn student from Iran shares hopes for home country amid conflict Sadaf Zarei, a UConn international student from Iran, discusses the plight of Iranian women's soccer players and the oppressive conditions in her home country on 'Fox & Friends.' Nvidia calls DLSS 5 the ‘GPT moment’ for graphics in PC games We’ve only just gotten some of the headline features of DLSS 4.5 , and now Nvidia has announced the next version. At its self-branded GPU Technology Conference in California, Nvidia revealed DLSS 5. The headline feature is “3D-Guided Neural Rendering.” And based on CEO Jensen Huang’s brief presentation during the keynote, it looks like it’s an “AI” filter. Huang seemed to blast through the DLSS 5… Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API The way JavaScript handles time has evolved significantly, from the built-in `Date` API to Moment.js and now Temporal. The new standard fills gaps in the original `Date` API while addressing limitations found in Moment and other libraries. Joe Attardi shares practical “recipes” for migrating Moment-based code to the new Temporal API. Sony's AI graphics upscaling for PS5 Pro games is getting a big update tonight Sony's upgraded PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) technology is rolling out to several titles on the PS5 Pro, including Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Silent Hill 2, and more. Digital Foundry got a chance to test some of them and found that the "new upscaler delivers the kind of upgrade we were looking for […] |
Startups accuse Microsoft of ‘billing trap’ in Azure AI Foundry after unexpected charges A growing number of startup founders are raising concerns about unexpected charges incurred while experimenting with AI models through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, turning what began as an isolated complaint into a broader debate over billing transparency. At least 20 participants in the Microsoft for Startups program have signed a Change.org petition calling on Microsoft CEO Satya Nade… Apple Launches AirPods Max 2 With Better ANC, Live Translation Apple has quietly announced the AirPods Max 2, featuring improved active noise cancellation, an H2 chip, and new features like adaptive audio and AI-powered real-time translation. Like the original model, these headphones start at $549. The Verge reports: As noted by Apple, the AirPods Max 2 offer active noise-cancellation that's 1.5 times more effective when compared to its predecessor. Transparency mode, which allows you to hear your surroundings while wearing the headphones, also sounds "mor… America's Abandoned Coal Mines Could Become Massive Underground Batteries What if the remnants of America's coal boom could power the renewable future? Research suggests that abandoned mines may hide an unexpected energy solution. Palantir partners with Nvidia to streamline AI data center deployment Two of the companies most synonymous with the AI revolution, Nvidia and Palantir Technologies, have linked arms to create an AI reference architecture operating system. The new Palantir AI OS Reference Architecture (AIOS-RA) is designed to support end-to-end processes from hardware acquisition to application deployment. It will serve as a blueprint for private and public entities to design, deplo… Nvidia Debuts New A.I. Product at GTC Developer Conference At the opening of the company’s annual conference, Jensen Huang leaned on technology from a recent deal to show how artificial intelligence is changing. Using AI to pick team leaders -- without crossing legal or ethical lines AI can help a CIO find ideal team-leader candidates within and beyond their organization, but unintended bias can creep into the process. Gogoro founder goes missing as reports on US$4.7M debt surfaces Horace Luke, the former Nike designer and Microsoft creative director who founded Gogoro in 2011 to revolutionize electric scooters, has reportedly accumulated debts of about NT$150 million (approx. US$4.7 million) and is currently unreachable. This situation has prompted Ruentex Group chairman Samuel Yin to launch an investigation into Luke's overseas assets. |
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