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Blackmagic is developing a camera for immersive Apple Vision Pro videos
11 Jun

Blackmagic is developing a camera for immersive Apple Vision Pro videos

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At Apple's WWDC presentation this year, the company said it was working with Blackmagic Design to make immersive videos for the Vision Pro easier to work with and capture. Turns out Blackmagic is currently developing a camera specifically to capture immersive films for Apple's mixed-reality headset. The digital cinema company and manufacturer announced the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera on X/Twitter and made sure to add a few photos to give us a glimpse of what it would look like.Introducing Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive! New camera in development, designed to capture content for Apple Vision Pro with 8160 x 7200…
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How does Apple send your data to its cloud AI servers? Very carefully, it claims.
11 Jun

How does Apple send your data to its cloud AI servers? Very carefully, it claims.

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For years, Apple has touted privacy as its major advantage over rivals like Google and Microsoft. Instead of relying on cloud processing to improve or organize your images, which requires sending your photos to Google's servers, Apple handles those tasks directly on your device. But with the advent of Apple Intelligence, the company's take on artificial intelligence, the company is stepping out of its comfort zone with "Private Cloud Compute." It says "private" right in the name, so it has to be secure, right?While Apple AI will run some models locally, it will occasionally have to send data to Apple's…
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How Apple Intelligence could avoid Microsoft and Google’s AI mistakes
11 Jun

How Apple Intelligence could avoid Microsoft and Google’s AI mistakes

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Apple's spin on AI is finally here, and it already seems smarter than Microsoft Copilot and Google Bard. Apple Intelligence focuses on privacy and "personal intelligence," with a bit of an assist from ChatGPT. While we haven't tested it ourselves yet, Apple appears to be avoiding the pitfalls of Microsoft's Recall feature, as well as Google Bard's unfortunate early gaffes. The company isn't trying to capture everything you're doing on your computer, and it's being careful about how it's using larger AI models like ChatGPT.Shortly after the WWDC 2024 keynote ended, Engadget's Cherlynn Low and Devindra Hardawar discussed why they…
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Apple may integrate Google’s Gemini AI into iOS in the future
10 Jun

Apple may integrate Google’s Gemini AI into iOS in the future

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Apple is integrating GPT-4o, the large language model that powers ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and MacOS Sequioa thanks to a partnership with OpenAI announced at WWDC, the company’s annual developer conference, on Monday. But shortly after the keynote ended, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering said that the company might also bake in Gemini, Google’s family of large language model, into its operating systems.“We want to enable users ultimately to choose the models they want, maybe Google Gemini in the future,” Federighi said in a conversation with reporters after the keynote. “Nothing to announce right…
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watchOS 11 includes a new Vitals app to see all your key health metrics
10 Jun

watchOS 11 includes a new Vitals app to see all your key health metrics

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A new app for the Apple Watch will help you get a better overall view of your health and fitness levels. The new Vitals app synthesizes details from your Health and Fitness data. During the keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple announced new features coming to watchOS 11.In addition to the new Vitals app, the Activity app is getting new abilities like Training Load that measures the intensity of your workout and rates your workouts. A unique algorithm will gauge your effort rating from one (easy) to ten (all out) so you can see how much…
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Amazon sale bundles the Echo speaker with a smart light bulb for only $65
10 Jun

Amazon sale bundles the Echo speaker with a smart light bulb for only $65

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The fourth-gen Amazon Echo smart speaker in white , and the deal includes a Sengled Bluetooth smart light bulb. That’s two smart thingamajigs for the price of one. This is a discount of 40 percent. It’s not the lowest price ever for the Echo speaker, light bulb or not, but it’s close.AmazonThis Echo easily made our list of the . We really appreciate just how loud this thing can get, especially when compared to competing speakers. The bass is punchy and everything sounds great, though we do wish the high frequency range was a bit more prevalent. You can, however,…
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Apple’s MacBook Air M3 drops to an all-time low of $899
10 Jun

Apple’s MacBook Air M3 drops to an all-time low of $899

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There's a bit of an Apple price war happening between Amazon and B&H Photo, which is good news for buyers. The 13-inch MacBook Air M3 with 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM just hit its lowest price yet at both Amazon and B&H, falling to just $899 or $200 (18 percent) off the retail price. In addition, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro chip (18GB of RAM, 512GB storage) is on sale for $1,699, or 15 percent ($300) off at Amazon and B&H — another all-time low.AppleApple's 13-inch MacBook Air M3 is on sale at an all-time…
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The best air purifier for 2024
10 Jun

The best air purifier for 2024

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As houses and apartments get more energy efficient, they also get more airtight, limiting air exchange with the outside world. That’s partly why it’s widely accepted that indoor air is often far more polluted than outdoor air. Mucking up our indoor air are factors like synthetic building materials, cleaning products, pet dander, cooking emissions and smoke. Opening windows can lower the levels of most pollutants, but bad weather, wildfires and high pollen-count days mean you can’t always do so. That’s where air purifiers can help. They use a combination of specialized filters, fans and sensors to suck in particulate matter,…
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WWDC 2024: How to watch Apple’s keynote on iOS 18, AI and more
10 Jun

WWDC 2024: How to watch Apple’s keynote on iOS 18, AI and more

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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is imminent. The festivities kick off later today — Monday, June 10 at 1PM ET. The keynote address is available to the public and you can watch it via Apple’s event website or on the company’s YouTube channel. And if you don't want to click away, the latter feed is embedded directly below.This is WWDC, so it’ll be a software-focused event. Expect that Apple will showcase updates across its full panoply of operating systems, including iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, as well as watchOS, macOS and even visionOS, which is the operating system behind…
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The Beats Solo 4 headphones with AppleCare+ are on sale for $150
09 Jun

The Beats Solo 4 headphones with AppleCare+ are on sale for $150

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You can get the new over-hear headphones with two years of AppleCare+ for $80 off thanks to a limited-time deal running on Amazon right now. The Solo 4 headphones were released just this past April and normally go for about $230 with the AppleCare+ bundle. Under the current 34 percent discount, they’re only $150. The deal applies to all three colors of the Solo 4: Cloud Pink, Matte Black and Slate Blue.BeatsThe Beats Solo 4 headphones brought significant improvements under the hood compared to earlier models, but stuck to the same familiar design externally. They’re touted to get about 50…
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