Author: Cinga
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Fossil is quitting smartwatches
Fossil Group has decided to call it quits on smartwatches. The company announced this afternoon that it would leave the smartwatch business and redirect resources to its less-smart goods instead. The company has been one of the most prolific makers of Wear OS smartwatches over the years, and its absence will leave a large gap…
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Satya Nadella says the explicit Taylor Swift AI fakes are ‘alarming and terrible’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has responded to a controversy over sexually explicit AI-made fake images of Taylor Swift. In an interview with NBC Nightly News that will air next Tuesday, Nadella calls the proliferation of nonconsensual simulated nudes “alarming and terrible,” telling interviewer Lester Holt that “I think it behooves us to move fast on…
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Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
Hugging Face is one of the more popular AI model repositories, storing open-sourced foundation models like Meta’s Llama 2 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. It also has many databases for model training. There are over 350,000 models hosted on the platform for developers to work with or upload their own models to Hugging Face, much…
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Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
In 2020, Apple appeared to have carved out a space for these cloud gaming services in the App Store. But that turned out not to be the case, as all games available through each service had to be submitted and reviewed as a standalone app. So the shift to allow one app with a large…
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This Qi2 car mount is cheaper than a MagSafe charger and can fast-charge your iPhone 15
A new car mount for your smartphone just launched that offers a rare combo: Qi2 wireless charging at high speeds — and at a reasonable price. The Qi2 car mount, from accessories maker ESR, offers 15W wireless charging to fast-charge your iPhone 15 and 15 Pro at its maximum capacity while you’re en route. 9to5Toys…
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GM and Honda join forces to make hydrogen fuel cells for ‘various products’
General Motors and Honda announced that their joint venture company, FCSM, has begun production of hydrogen fuel cells that will eventually make their way into “various product applications.” Hydrogen fuel cells use compressed hydrogen as their fuel, releasing water vapor as its only emission. A number of automakers have recently seized on the technology for…
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Nvidia’s RTX GPUs can now upgrade SDR content to HDR using AI
Nvidia is launching a new feature for all RTX GPU owners today: RTX Video HDR. Much like how Nvidia’s RTX Video Super Resolution can upscale old, blurry web videos, RTX Video HDR uses AI to convert SDR color space video to HDR. You just need an HDR10-compatible monitor with HDR enabled in Windows. RTX Video…
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Microsoft Teams now supports 3D and VR meetings
Microsoft is launching its immersive 3D meetings inside Microsoft Teams today. Microsoft Mesh, the company’s mixed reality platform, is coming out of preview and being integrated into Teams to let people gather in virtual spaces with or without a VR headset. I got to try out Mesh inside Microsoft Teams late last year, and it…
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iOS 17.3 is out, adding Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone
iOS 17.3 is out, and it comes with a new security feature that’s supposed to prevent thieves from taking your iPhone and quickly taking over access to anything stored in iCloud as well as other important accounts like your bank or email. Instead of relying on your lock screen passcode for security (as thieves have…
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Google Podcasts is going away after March — but there are alternatives
And another one bites the dust — this time, it’s Google Podcasts, which is being discontinued in favor of YouTube Music. Back in 2018, Google moved its Play Music service over to YouTube, and while some people felt it was an improvement, others weren’t so thrilled. I have to say that I count myself among…