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Apple is hoping to one-up Meta with its own smart glasses

Meta wowed the world with its Orion AR glasses a few weeks ago. Apple's Vision Products Group is now working on own take.
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Google AI helped researchers win two Nobel Prizes this week

While AI was helping win multiple Nobel Prizes this week, we saw the release of Google's Imagen 3, Zoom's AI Companion, and Amazon's Shopping Guides.
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TikTok lays off hundreds in favor of AI moderators while Instagram blames humans for its own issues

TikTok developer ByteDance laid off hundreds of human moderators in favor of AI, while Threads blamed its human moderators on a recent string of account lockouts.
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OpenAI uses its own models to fight election interference

OpenAI cracks down on cybercrime campaigns using its systems to influence elections worldwide. Discover what the full report says.
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Apple may have just killed this 16-year old Mac product

The Apple SuperDrive is now out of stock across the whole world, and it doesn't seem like it's coming back.
A render for an Intel Arrow Lake CPU.

Intel Arrow Lake: everything we know about the 15th-gen chips

Intel Arrow Lake CPUs are launching in October. Here's everything we know about these next-gen processors so far.
The GeForce 256 sitting next to a Half Life box.

25 years ago, Nvidia changed PCs forever

In October 1999, Nvidia released the GeForce 256, which completely changed how we think about PC hardware and gaming forever.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D installed in a motherboard.

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D may not give Intel any breathing room

More signs now point to the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D launching soon, and the possible announcement might arrive at the worst possible time for Intel.
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Tesla’s Elon Musk unveils the Cybercab robotaxi — and also the Robovan

Tesla boss Elon Musk has just unveiled a prototype of the automaker’s long-awaited robotaxi.
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Apple’s new Submerged movie for Vision Pro is not for bathtime viewing

Apple's new Submerged movie for the Vision Pro features a lot of panic and a lot of water, so don't even think about watching it in the bath. 
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The Wayback Machine has been hacked, and the internet isn’t happy about it

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has suffered two types of attacks, including 31 million unique records being compromised.
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Mac sales are nosediving

Macs have reportedly experienced a 17.5% drop in annual growth in this past quarter.
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Windows 11 is creating an ‘undeletable’ 8.63GB cache

The undeletable cache issue stems from the "checkpoint update" system, a feature designed to download smaller, incremental patches instead of full updates.
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Zoom debuts its new customizable AI Companion 2.0

Zoom unveiled its next-generation AI assistant for Workplace that promises to deliver an AI-first work platform for human connection.
AMD presenting its new Turin CPUs.

Believe it or not, AMD and Nvidia are teaming up

AMD and Nvidia are sworn enemies, but they're teaming up in the name of AI data center processing.
Customer using 1Password on their Windows laptop, sitting on a couch.

Passkeys in Windows 11 are about to get safer and easier to use

Microsoft has announced that big changes are coming to its passkey experience, including third-party integration and account syncing.
A render for an Intel Arrow Lake CPU.

Sorry, gamers — Intel’s new CPUs won’t deliver any gains

Intel just pulled back the curtain on its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, but you shouldn't expect them to be big gaming performers.
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Intel did the unthinkable with its new Arrow Lake CPUs

Intel is giving up on a feature that has been at the center of its desktop CPUs for decades with the release of Arrow Lake.
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Nvidia might double down on its controversial pricing strategy

If you thought the RTX 40 series was expensive, wait until you see what Nvidia might be serving up with the 50 series graphics cards.
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Amazon debuts AI ‘Shopping Guides’ for more than 100 product types

Amazon debuted its new AI-powered Shopping Guide feature on Wednesday that is designed to help educated online buyers about their potential purchases.
The back of the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super graphics card.

Nvidia may give the RTX 5080 a sweet consolation prize

A new glimpse at the potential specs for the RTX 5080 tells us that it might have the RTX 5090 beat in one way, but there's still a huge gap between the two.
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Nvidia just dropped a big hint about the RTX 50-series release date

It's not clear when Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs will release, but the company just dropped a pretty big hint.
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If you used MoneyGram last month, your data might’ve been stolen

MoneyGram confirms that a lot of sensitive user data was stolen, including Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and more.
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Adobe is giving creators a way to prove their art isn’t AI slop

Adobe announced that it will launch a web app for its Content Authenticity program in 2025, allowing creators to certify the authenticity of their works.
An open MacBook Pro on a table.

These M4 MacBook Pro leaks are getting insane, and I don’t know what to believe anymore

The M4 MacBook Pro leaks are still coming -- this time we've got a second unboxing video and a Facebook group allegedly selling 200 units.
Windows 11 logo on a laptop.

Microsoft Word may delete your files — here’s how to avoid it

A new bug in Microsoft Word is randomly deleting user files, but we know how to work around it.
The Lunar keyboard mini-PC unfolded.

This tiny keyboard is hiding a secret inside

A Chinese startup has combined a mini-PC and a folding keyboard, creating a unique portable productivity device.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 Max chip seen from behind.

A YouTuber with 11 million subscribers just unboxed the M4 MacBook Pro

The M4 MacBook Pro leaks just keep on coming. This time, it has allegedly been fully unboxed and benchmarked in a YouTube video.
Jensen Huang at GTX 2020.

Nvidia’s CEO — yes, one person — is now worth more than all of Intel

According to the most recent net worth estimates, Nvidia's CEO could buy Intel with about $13 billion to spare.
PNY RTX 4080 with the power connector attached.

These AMD and Nvidia release date updates are giving me whiplash

We just got even more news about the possible release dates for Nvidia's RTX 50-series and AMD's RDNA 4, and the back-and-forth never ends.
Phil Nickinson wearing the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses while talking into an iPhone.

Ray-Ban Meta glasses hit version 9.0, get new voice messaging

You can now set timers, send voice memos, and send Meta AI chats to others with the latest update to the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
The MacBook Pro on a wooden table.

Next-gen Macs with M4 silicon could be here in November

The next wave of Mac machines with the M4 silicon — which includes a refresh for the iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini lines — could hit the shelves in November.
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From Open AI to hacked smart glasses, here are the 5 biggest AI headlines this week

Between OpenAI's $6.6 million funding round and some privacy-invading Meta Smart Glasses, we saw a scary number of developments in the AI space this week.
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Google (probably) made your internet faster

A new report shows that when Google Fiber enters a market, it boosts overall internet speeds for all providers, driving competitors to enhance their services.