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 Amazon this week has all-time low prices on the Apple Watch Series 11, with $100 discounts across numerous models of the smartwatch. This sale includes a handful of aluminum models of the Series 11 on sale at record low prices.
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Google adds continued conversations to Gemini for Home, enabling more natural voice interactions without repeating wake words.
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SpaceX announced on Tuesday a new partnership with Cursor, the San Francisco-based AI coding company. The deal isn't a straightforward acquisition, at least, not yet. According to a post by SpaceX via X, the agreement gives the rocket company the right to acquire Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, later this year for $60 billion. This structure […]
The post SpaceX Strikes Potential $60B Deal to Acquire AI Startup Cursor appeared first on eWEEK.
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AI is uncovering decades-old software bugs at scale, forcing a race to patch vulnerabilities before attackers gain access to the same powerful tools.
The post Claude Mythos Discovers 271 Security Bugs in Firefox appeared first on eWEEK.
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Control is one of my favorite adventure games of the last decade or so, a mind-bending trip through an ever-changing building where you get to use telekinesis to battle some pretty freaky enemies. It was a graphically-demanding game when it was released in 2019, but a lot can change in less than six years: Control: Ultimate Edition is now available on the iPhone and iPad for a mere $5, following its announcement last October. It's a universal purchase, which means if you buy it it'll work on the iPad, iPhone and Mac as well.
Developer Remedy promises that it's the full Control experience, with the DLC episodes included. Remedy rebuilt the UI and controls to make it work on touchscreen devices; the company says that it has tweaked aiming and the various puzzles to make them work better for the iPad and iPhone. But naturally, the game also works with controllers. If you're serious about having the best experience with the game, finding a way to play with physical controls is probably a good idea.
The game will run on iPhones with at least an A17 Pro chip. That includes the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, as well all of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 17 series. Plenty of iPad models can run the game, as well — any iPad with an M-series chip or the A17 Pro will work. That means the current basic iPad, with its A16 processor, is left out of the fun. But any iPad Air or Pro from the last four years or so should be good to go.
I tried a test version of Control when I reviewed the new iPad Air recently and, unsurprisingly, the tablet's M4 chip was more t
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Tim Cook's tenure as Apple CEO ends September 1 when he takes the role of executive chair. He will be replaced by John Ternus, a 25-year Apple veteran and head of its hardware engineering division. I get the sense Cook's professional obituaries will focus on his steady hand, execution success and lack of intra-company drama. All of those are virtues but I suspect the media, ever in love with a narrative of its own concoction, will use them as cudgels. Consider this an attempt to balance the record ahead of Cook's damning with the faintest of praise.
Cook is quiet and private, making it easy to paint him as a bland managerialist who coasted on the success of the iPhone. In Ternus, Apple once again has a "product guy" at its helm, a term loaded with enough subtext to sink a battleship. You can feel the implication that it's only "product guys" who have the vision, taste and knowledge to innovate. By extension, Cook was never "a real nerd," but an empty finance guy that never understood what makes Apple tick.
If there's one thing Silicon Valley loves more than money, it's a mercurial genius upon whom they can rest their dreams. Figures with a capital-V vision who invent new product categories with a flick of a wrist, captains of industry who inspire awe and devotion. And making enough money that even a Rockefeller would start thinking "gosh, that's a bit much."
The Jobsian myth-making obscures his talents and minimizes the number of misses he had along the way. Jobs' first tenure at Apple ended in failure and NeXT, for all its innovation, didn't survive as a standalone hardware maker. Many of his ideas were too big and ambitious to succeed and his refusal to compromise made them sink. His time in the wilderness made him a better manager, and a far better storyteller. But to suggest Jobs was gif
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NEW RESOURCES Kabul Now: Taliban Launch New Website to Share Information on Their Activities. "The Taliban have announced that they have launched a new website named ‘Permukhtag' to provide information about the […]
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Our CNET experts have tested the top desks to help you find the right one for your office, game room or hobby space.
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Barça can reopen a nine-point lead at the top of the standings with a win over the Sky Blues.
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 OpenAI this week introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, which the company says brings a new era of image generation. Images 2.0 is an updated model that can better handle complex visual tasks.
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Pep Guardiola's men have the chance to go top with a win against their near-neighbors.
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Here are some simple but meaningful ways to help you feel more connected to our home planet.
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The survival thriller hits your TV screen next month.
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Save some green while being green with these eco-friendly deals and discounts.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with image editing, reasoning, web research, multilingual support, and better text rendering for work.
The post OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Images 2.0, Bringing Reasoning to AI Image Creation appeared first on eWEEK.
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One group of hackers used AI for everything from vibe coding their malware to creating fake company websites—and stole as much as $12 million in three months.
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 Following the emergence of a rumor that Apple is planning to downgrade the iPhone 18 to cut costs, further detail has emerged suggesting that display and chip specifications will see downgrades.
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 Last week, Macworld's Filipe Espósito reported that Apple is testing four color options for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, and one of those colors has since been corroborated by a known leaker on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.
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The company says most of its mobile customers spend 90% of the time connected to its Wi-Fi network, in and out of their homes.
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Choosing the right proxy server is essential to scale your web scraping data strategy. But since not all proxies are created equal, we break down how to choose the right one for your needs.
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Meta has introduced a new "live chats" feature to Threads, enabling people on the platform to participate in real-time conversations about live events they're interested in. Live chats can be hosted within Threads communities, the topic-specific social spaces that Meta introduced last year.
The new feature sounds a bit like Threads' take on Instagram's broadcast channels, but the latter only allows for one-way messaging. Live chats can be hosted by select creators, including Community Champions — users highly engaged within specific communities — and media personalities. Once a chat is launched or scheduled, the host chooses who is invited to contribute and can then share the link publicly.
You can post photos, videos, links and emoji reactions as well as text-based messages. If you're unable to send messages in a live chat that is at capacity, you can still watch it, react to others messages and vote in polls. Live chats remain open to view after they've ended, and you don't need to be part of a community to join.
Meta is debuting its new social feature in the NBAThreads Community during the Playoffs, with Malika Andrews, Rachel Nichols, Trysta Krick, David Rushing and Lexis Mickens named as hosts. Live chats will appear at the top of the NBAThreads Community feed, and can also be shared in a post that might appear on your main feed in Threads. You'll also see a red ring around a host's profile photo when they're live.
Meta says live chats will gradually be rolled out to more communities on Threads, with features like co-hosting, lock screen widgets and the ability to quote and share messages from a chat on your feed coming soon.
Meta has been steadily expanding its X rival's features since it launched in 2023. It started sm
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2026's wave of Razr phones could come in new colors with improved cameras. Plus, we now know the official launch date. Here's all we know about the upcoming Razr flip phones.
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Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore?
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It's been an eventful April for Game Pass.
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These eco-friendly devices give your home smart capabilities while saving water, energy and other resources.
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Search by Image for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera is a powerful reverse image search extension/add-on that allows you to initiate a reverse image search from the right-click context menu or the browser toolbar with support for numerous search engines including Baidu, Bing, Google, Yandex, and TinEye. [License: Open Source | Requires:
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The animation studio is releasing three ASL sequences on Disney Plus later this month.
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With a sleeker design and improved sound and noise canceling, the $130 Space 2 are an excellent, more affordable alternative to pricey flagship ANC models, earning a CNET Editors' Choice award.
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Google's got two new chips to build AI models and updates to the tech stacks businesses use to run AI.
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Anker has announced its own chip that can give its small, wearable products AI capabilities that run locally on device. The company is planning to debut the chip called "Thus" on a new model of headphones, slated to be unveiled at its Anker Day event on May 21.
Anker calls Thus the "first Compute-in-Memory (CIM) AI audio chip with neural networks." The company explains that Thus is "inspired by the workings of the human brain" in that the storage and processing of information takes place in one location instead of keeping them separate, similar to how it works on modern chips for computers.
Thus integrates computing power directly into NOR flash memory cells, which provide faster read speeds than NAND memory. A NOR-based CIM system requires only a tiny space inside devices, which makes it an ideal option for small products like headphones. Anker says headphones are a particularly challenging environment to demonstrate what a new chip can do, because "hardly any other device places higher demands on an AI chip." They have a tiny space allotted for components and operate with just a few milliwatts of power, even though they have to consistently provide noise cancellation. If the model delivers, it could be a huge advertisement for Thus, which Anker plans to put in other mobile accessories and IoT devices, as well.
While the company has yet to reveal all its upcoming headphones' AI-powered capabilities, it did announce one particular feature. Clear Calls, as it's called, will cancel noise "with a large neural network running entirely on the device, supported by eight MEMS microphones and two bone conduction sensors." Anker says it will enable significantly clearer conversations even in environments that are challenging for conventional noise cancellat
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From green bubble stigma to celebrities championing Apple Watches, the Tim Cook era is one of elevated prestige for those owning Apple products.
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When John Ternus takes Apple's top spot on Sept. 1, he'll be tasked with tackling some key hurdles. His decades of experience will come in handy.
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SpaceX and AI company Cursor have struck a new partnership that could see the owner of X buy the AI company for $60 billion later this year. "SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI," SpaceX wrote in a post on X.
The combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will…
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 21, 2026
According to SpaceX, the deal allows for it to either invest $10 billion into the company known for its AI coding tool, or acquire it entirely "later this year" for $60 billion. If an acquisition were to happen, it's not clear at what point Cursor could officially join the fold of Elon Musk's rapidly expanding and increasingly enmeshed web of companies. SpaceX bought xAI, the billionaire's AI company that also controls X, earlier this year. SpaceX is currently getting ready to go public this summer in what will likely be
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Florida Attorney General James Ulthmeier has announced that the state's Office of Statewide Prosecution has opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT. The investigation was opened because the suspect in a mass shooting at Florida State University in 2025 reportedly used ChatGPT in the lead up to the shooting.
Per Uthmeier, "Florida law states that anyone who aids, abets, or counsels someone in the commission of a crime, and that crime is committed or attempted, may be considered a principal to the crime." That means that the responses provided by ChatGPT to the shooter could be interpreted as the AI assistant aiding and abetting his actions. Or at least that's what Florida seems interested in arguing.
OpenAI provided the following statement when asked to comment on the Florida investigation:
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NEW RESOURCES New Zealand Ministry for Culture & Heritage: Nga Tapuwae Trails content to be preserved in NZ's national digital archive. "Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms it will preserve […]
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Unsure how to spot AI-generated content? These tips can help.
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Google's latest AI music model can create longer, higher-quality songs with better structure. But is the music any good, and how does copyright and ownership play into it?
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 You don't just turn up at Nürburgring Nordschleife with an eye on Corvette ZR1X's record. And who better to do it than the manufacturer who lost that record to Corvette itself? Well, Ford did exactly that with the new Ford Mustang GTD.
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The AI chatbot told the man accused of killing two people in 2025 what ammunition to use and when to strike, the state attorney general said, announcing a criminal probe.
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Releasing a wine's full expression requires hitting target temperatures. An expert explains the ideal range for red and white, along with other bad wine habits to break.
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Apple hardware engineering chief John Ternus and marketing chief Greg Joswiak recently did an interview with Tom's Guide, where they shared new insights into the MacBook Neo, AI, and spatial computing.
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EVENTS North Carolina Department of Natural & Cultural Resources: State Archives to Host virtual program on New Americans in North Carolina. "As part of America 250 NC's ‘When Are We US?' theme, […]
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