Apple's M3 MacBook Air combines Apple's lightest and thinnest laptop design with the impressive horsepower of third-generation Apple silicon. B&H Photo Video has the 2024 laptop on sale for $200 off. Usually $1,299, the variant with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is only $1,099.
The 2024 MacBook Air adds the M3 chip, Apple's silicon with a 3nm process that crams more electronic components into a smaller space compared to its predecessor. Apple's Neural Engine, which will become more crucial with the introduction of Apple Intelligence AI features this fall, is also 15 percent faster in the M3 family than the M2. While the M3 MacBook Air may not provide a dramatic speed boost over the M2 in day-to-day tasks, it has a higher ceiling for intensive work and is more future-proo
Warner Bros. Discovery followed through on its threat to "take appropriate action" against the NBA for rejecting its broadcasting rights offer. Variety reported on Friday that the media company sued the league in the New York State Supreme Court after the NBA turned down its bid to match Amazon's streaming package that kicks in starting in the 2025-26 season.
The conflict stems from Warner's belief that its current contract gives it the right to match any offer that would replace Warner's TNT as a home for NBA games (and the iconic Inside the NBA) in the upcoming deal. As for the league's stance, The Athletic reported that since the current agreements were signed when streaming was "on the horizon, but not part of the deals," the NBA disagrees with Warner's matching claim.
The lawsuit was expected as soon as the league announced its new broadcasting and streaming package, which also includes Disney (ABC and ESPN) and Comcast (NBC). The NBA reportedly told Warner it rejected its matching offer because it wanted to put all its games on its streaming se
Microsoft has started beta testing a new feature that lets you "see your Android phone in File Explorer" and "wirelessly browse through all your folders and files, including media that is on your Android phone."
It's a spicy time to launch AI-powered search engines. Last month, Perplexity faced criticism for summarizing stories from Forbes and Wired without adequate attribution or backlinks to the publications. It also ignored robots.txt, a way for websites to tell crawlers that scrape data to back off. Earlier this week, Wired publisher Condé Nast reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity and accused it of plagiarism. Also: see the Reddit drama earlier this week.
SearchGPT categorizes its results with short descriptions and visuals, but according to some early users, just like its chatbot forebears, accuracy is… lacking.
— Mat Smith
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