Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Making its debut at Milan Design Week, where function often takes a back seat to form, Audio-Technica’s new Hotaru turntable manages to balance both. The upper… Read more
read more...Audio-Technica’s new $9,999 turntable levitates and glows
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JEDEC finalizes HBM4 memory standard with major bandwidth and efficiency upgrades
By: Tom's Hardware
JEDEC has published the official HBM4 (High Bandwidth Memory 4) specification under JESD238, a new memory standard aimed at keeping up with the rapidly growing requirements of AI workloads, high-performance computing, and advanced data center environments. The new standard introduces architectural changes and interface upgrades that seek to improve memory bandwidth, capacity, and efficiency as… Read more
read more...Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers
By: The Verge
Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Wednesday that… Read more
read more...Zuckerberg tells court he made WhatsApp and Instagram better
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Towards the end of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in a Washington, DC courthouse, a smile flashed across his face. Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hansen, had asked the CEO if he was “happy” about paying $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014. Zuckerberg flashed a grin, took a brief pause, and responded, “I’d do it again.” Over the… Read more
read more...Gemini Live’s screensharing feature is now free for Android users
By: The Verge
Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Gemini Live’s feature that lets it see and respond to what’s on your camera and your screen will now be free for all Android users via the Gemini app, Google announced today…. Read more
read more...Microsoft Copilot can now ‘see’ what’s on your screen in Edge
By: The Verge
Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI assistant feature that can interpret what’s on your screen and help you use apps, is now available for free use within the Edge browser, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, announced on Bluesky today. Vision is a “talk-based experience,” as Microsoft calls it, meaning you use it by speaking into the… Read more
read more...Apple’s carbon footprint is shrinking
By: The Verge
Apple’s making steady progress toward its climate goals, the company’s latest environmental progress report shows. Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 percent drop. Looking back over the past decade, Apple says its global greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 60 percent. That’s no… Read more
read more...Zoom is down
By: The Verge
Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Zoom is suffering from a major outage, preventing people from connecting to video calls or even accessing its website. As shown by data on Downdetector, the outage… Read more
read more...Google, Apple, and Snap aren’t happy about Meta’s poorly-redacted slides
By: The Verge
During Meta’s antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called the errors “egregious,” with Apple’s representative indicating that it may not be able to trust Meta with… Read more
read more...Gigabyte chops PCIe finger in half on its dual-fan RTX 5060 Ti cards
By: Tom's Hardware
(Image credit: Gigabyte) Gigabyte is apparently testing new methods to make its graphics cards as compact as possible. Andreas Schilling on X shared PCB shots of Gigabyte’s latest RTX 5060 Ti Eagle sporting a very unusual PCB that is roughly half the size of a conventional dual-fan graphics card. The PCB on the RTX 5060… Read more
read more...Intel has championed High-NA EUV chipmaking tools, but costs and other limitations could delay industry-wide adoption: Report
By: Tom's Hardware
(Image credit: Intel) Intel has made significant strides in implementing High-NA EUV lithography by installing two High-NA litho machines, developing custom reticles as well as all-new optical proximity correction, and processing 30,000 wafers. However, major hurdles remain: the $380 million – $400 million tool cost and potential necessity to overhaul photomask supply chain limits economic… Read more
read more...Xbox will soon let you purchase games in its mobile app
By: The Verge
Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Xbox is finally rolling out the ability to purchase games and DLC, as well as sign up for Game Pass directly from its mobile app. But there’s… Read more
read more...OpenAI’s upgraded o3 model can use images when reasoning
By: The Verge
Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. OpenAI is releasing two new AI reasoning models today: o3, which the company calls its “most powerful reasoning model,” and o4-mini, which is a smaller and faster model that “achieves remarkable performance… Read more
read more...How to set up Do Not Disturb modes on your Android phone
By: The Verge
In recent years, Do Not Disturb has evolved on both iPhones and Android phones: it’s no longer just a simple block on notifications and distractions, but rather a selection of modes you can customize to suit all the different scenarios in your life (like driving, sleeping, working, or exercising at the gym). This means you… Read more
read more...Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
By: Tom's Hardware
(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Synology’s new Plus Series NAS systems, designed for small and medium enterprises and advanced home users, can no longer use non-Synology or non-certified hard drives and get the full feature set of their device. Instead, Synology customers will have to use the company’s self-branded hard drives. While you can still use… Read more
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