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Apple's new AI model can understand your home screen and supercharge Siri
ZDNet - 9 Apr 2024 22:04
Meet Ferret-UI, a multimodal large language model capable of understanding the elements on your home screen and potentially helping Siri actually perform tasks for you.
Gene Mutation Increases Autism Risk
Neuroscience News - 9 Apr 2024 19:50
Researchers made significant strides in understanding autism spectrum disorder's genetic underpinnings. By studying mice with a frameshift mutation in the KMT2C gene, they observed behavioral and cognitive impairments re...
Make Coffee How You Like It With This $60 Keurig K-Slim Plus Iced Brewer From QVC - CNET
CNET - 9 Apr 2024 18:25
Now you can have hot or cold coffee from one flexible pod brewer. This discount makes it easy to save money and simplify your morning routine.
10-Year-Old 'RUBYCARP' Romanian Hacker Group Surfaces with Botnet
The Hacker News - 9 Apr 2024 16:01
A threat group of suspected Romanian origin calledRUBYCARPhas been observed maintaining a long-running botnet for carrying out crypto mining, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and phishing attacks. The group, believe...
Cash-strapped Argentines queue for eyeball scans
Phys.org - 9 Apr 2024 10:30
Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part of an online biometrics project under scrutiny in several countries.
Starlink terminals are reportedly being used by Russian forces in Ukraine
Engadget - 9 Apr 2024 17:48Gmail really wants to take all the pain away from drafting emails
Android Authority - 9 Apr 2024 14:00
Gmail's Help Me Write feature gets voice prompts and instant polish features that leave you typing less and less.
Tesla reaches settlement in autopilot death case of Apple engineer
AppleInsider - 9 Apr 2024 03:00
Tesla was prepared to contest claims of wrongful death related to its Autopilot system in court but has chosen to settle the case instead. Tesla agrees to pay settlement in tragic autopilot crash In a surprising turn, Te...
When is the NEXT total solar eclipse?
Digital Trends - 9 Apr 2024 02:45
Monday's total solar eclipse in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico has been and gone. So when is the next chance to experience this spectacular celestial phenomenon?
AI-generated Elon Musk videos flood YouTube with fake eclipse streams to promote crypto scams
Mashable - 9 Apr 2024 00:21
Scammers are faking YouTube livestreams about the solar eclipse, featuring Elon Musk and SpaceX, for crypto scams.
The best ways to add HomeKit support to your garage door in 2024
9 to 5 Mac - 9 Apr 2024 23:31
Upgrading your HomeKit lifestyle with a smart garage door is one of the best changes you can make. For a long time, MyQ was an easy recommendation for people looking to easily turn their existing garage door into a HomeK...
The bootleg Nintendo Network replacement no longer requires jailbreaking
Engadget - 9 Apr 2024 21:27Save $200 on this Epson 4K home theater projector at Best Buy
Digital Trends - 9 Apr 2024 21:00
The Epson Home Cinema 2350 projector, which offers 4K Ultra HD resolution and screen sizes of up to 500 inches, is available from Best Buy with a $200 discount.
Blink Outdoor (4th Gen) - CNET
CNET - 9 Apr 2024 17:07
Wire-free & two-way audio.
Measuring improvement in the design of pulses for quantum systems
Phys.org - 9 Apr 2024 17:04
Seeking a method for reducing error in noisy quantum systems, Kajsa Williams and Louis-S. Bouchard, researchers at the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, implemented ...
Apple spotlights how businesses are adopting the Apple Vision Pro
AppleInsider - 9 Apr 2024 16:56
Working to promote the Apple Vision Pro as a business tool instead of solely an entertainment one, Apple has highlighted half a dozen firms from Porsche to Microsoft, who have incorporated the headset into their work. Ap...
Apple claims its new AI outperforms GPT-4 on some tasks by including on-screen content and background context
Phys.org - 9 Apr 2024 15:57
A team of AI researchers at Apple claims that their AI system, Reference Resolution As Language Modeling (ReALM), can outperform GPT-4 on some kinds of queries. They have published a paper on the arXiv preprint server de...
Better battery manufacturing: Robotic lab vets new reaction design strategy
Phys.org - 9 Apr 2024 15:53
New chemistries for batteries, semiconductors and more could be easier to manufacture, thanks to a new approach to making chemically complex materials that researchers at the University of Michigan and Samsung's Advanced...
Hackers Targeting Human Rights Activists in Morocco and Western Sahara
The Hacker News - 9 Apr 2024 15:45
Human rights activists in Morocco and the Western Sahara region are the targets of a new threat actor that leverages phishing attacks to trick victims into installing bogus Android apps and serve credential harvesting pa...
US legislators propose American Privacy Rights Act - and it looks quite good
The Register - 9 Apr 2024 03:32
After two decades of calls for national protections, something may actually happen Americans may soon live under a federal privacy law - a mere two decades after the US Federal Trade Commission urged Congress to regulate...
Rocket Lab wins $14.4 million contract to launch Space Test Program experiment
Space News - 9 Apr 2024 02:58
The payload is a NASA-funded plate-shaped satellite designed by Aerospace Corp. as a possible alternative to the cubesat The post Rocket Lab wins $14.4 million contract to launch Space Test Program experiment appeared fi...
X launches passkey support for iOS app users worldwide
AppleInsider - 9 Apr 2024 02:38
Passkeys have launched for X uses globally, bringing a new level of account security to users of the social platform. Passkey on an iPhone In January, X introduced support for passkey login. The feature uses technology d...