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Avride’s next-gen delivery robot ditches two wheels and adds NVIDIA AI brains
31 Oct

Avride’s next-gen delivery robot ditches two wheels and adds NVIDIA AI brains

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Autonomous delivery vehicle company Avride has a fresh design — and NVIDIA AI brains. The company’s engineers have swapped out the old six-wheel configuration for a more efficient four-wheel chassis. It can make 180-degree turns almost instantly, effortlessly park on inclines and move faster without compromising safety.Avride has been working on autonomous delivery robots since 2019. It began as part of Russian tech company Yandex’s autonomous driving wing. But the spun-off company divested its Russian assets after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and rebranded as Avride. It’s now owned by the Netherlands-based Nebius Group (formerly Yandex…
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How to take Apple’s hearing test with the AirPods Pro 2
31 Oct

How to take Apple’s hearing test with the AirPods Pro 2

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When arrived earlier this week, Apple delivered the highly-anticipated suite of that it announced at the iPhone event . This includes hearing aid and hearing protection tools, as well as a “clinically-validated” hearing test in your pocket. With the combination of an iPhone and a pair of second-gen AirPods Pro, you can take a hearing test that’s similar to what you’d get at an audiologist’s office without leaving home. Most importantly, the whole thing takes about five minutes and gives you detailed results immediately. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use it.Update your iPhone and AirPods Pro 2 Billy…
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Google CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated
31 Oct

Google CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai just revealed that AI now generates more than a quarter of new code for its products, according to a company earnings call . In other words, AI tools are already having an absolutely mammoth impact on the development of software.Pichai did say that human programmers oversee the computer-generated code, which is something. The CEO noted that AI coding helps with “boosting productivity and efficiency," ensuring that engineers “do more and move faster.”There’s no two ways around it. 25 percent is a lot, and Google is just one company relying on AI algorithms to perform complex coding…
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Children with Android phones will be able to use Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay next year
31 Oct

Children with Android phones will be able to use Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay next year

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Google Wallet for kids will roll out in 2025. “Following the positive response of tap-to-pay on Fitbit Ace LTE devices, we’re expanding tap-to-pay for kids to Google Wallet,” Google wrote in a statement to 9to5Google, which first reported on it. Parents could approve credit and debit cards added to children’s phones, and Google’s Family Link would let them view transactions and easily approve or remove cards.The service would build on the tap-to-pay functionality in Google’s Fitbit Ace LTE kids’ activity tracker. The expansion would make the Google Wallet app available for Android phone-using children whose parents have set up Family…
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Everything Apple announced during its unofficial Mac Week
30 Oct

Everything Apple announced during its unofficial Mac Week

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Following the illustrious line of calendar-spanning corporate events like Lobsterfest and Shark Week, Apple tried something new this year with a celebration unofficially known as Mac Week. (Fortunately for Apple, it just so happens to coincide with its earnings call on Thursday!) The company’s three-day product rollout for desktop hardware centered around the M4 chip, built for Apple Intelligence. We recount everything Apple spit out this week, including a new iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Pro and other goodies like Apple Intelligence’s official arrival on iOS, iPadOS and macOS.iMac (M4) AppleThe M4-powered iMac has the same design (apart from some new…
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Meta AI has more than 500 million users
30 Oct

Meta AI has more than 500 million users

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Last month at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta AI was “on track” to become the most-used generative AI assistant in the world. The company has now passed a significant milestone toward that goal, with Meta AI passing the 500 million user mark, Zuckerberg revealed during the company’s latest earnings call.The half billion user mark comes just barely a year after the social network first launched its AI assistant last fall. Zuckerberg said the company still expects to become the “most-used” assistant by the end of 2024, though he's never specified how the company is measuring that metric.Meta’s assistant…
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Proton brings its VPN to Apple TV with new app
30 Oct

Proton brings its VPN to Apple TV with new app

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Proton announced the debut of an Apple TV app for its virtual private network. The new app, which was "among the most requested features from our community," according to the company's , is available for download from the App Store on any Apple TV. It will allow customers with a paid Proton VPN plan to stream their media content from any location on Apple's set-top box.Proton VPN was our favorite when we it in 2023, and it's still our this year for a virtual private network. The service boasts excellent features for security, privacy and usability. Our only real complaint…
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AMD’s next-gen GPUs are set to arrive in early 2025, suggesting a CES reveal
30 Oct

AMD’s next-gen GPUs are set to arrive in early 2025, suggesting a CES reveal

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AMD and NVIDIA could be on a collision course for CES. AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed for the first time that the company is set to release its next-gen PC GPUs early next year."In gaming graphics, revenue declined year-over-year as we prepare for a transition to our next-gen Radeon GPUs based on our RDNA 4 architecture," Su told investors on AMD's third-quarter earnings call. "In addition to a strong increase in gaming performance, RDNA 4 delivers significantly higher ray-tracing performance and adds new AI capabilities. We are on track to launch the first RDNA 4 GPUs in early 2025."The…
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Apple unveils its top-of-the-line M4 Max chip
30 Oct

Apple unveils its top-of-the-line M4 Max chip

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Apple is continuing its week of announcements by revealing the latest MacBook Pro lineup, as well as its new top-of-the-line chip. The M4 Max has a 40-core GPU — double the number of cores found in the M4 Pro that the company revealed this week. It has a 16-core GPU with 12 performance and four efficiency cores and a 16-core neural engine that's said to be three times faster than the one on the M1 chip. The M4 Max supports up to 128GB of RAM with what Apple claims is 30 percent more memory bandwidth than the M3 Max offers.The…
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Kindle Colorsoft review: The missing link in Amazon’s ereader lineup
30 Oct

Kindle Colorsoft review: The missing link in Amazon’s ereader lineup

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Well, it finally happened. After years of waiting and requests, Amazon debuted the $280 Kindle Colorsoft, its first ereader with a color display. The company’s ereaders have dominated this space since the original Kindle came out 17 years ago, but in this case, it feels like Amazon is playing catch-up. Color E Ink displays aren’t novel: we’ve tested and reviewed a number of color ereaders and E Ink tablets from Kobo, Boox and reMarkable in recent years. But Amazon is essentially trying to pull an Apple with the Colorsoft: with claims that color E Ink technology just wasn’t good enough…
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