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For a few years now, everyone’s favourite Swedish flat-pack furniture maker has been dabbling in smart home tech. And soon, I’ll actually be able to use one of Ikea’s smart home gadgets. That’s because after years of affordable yet frustratingly limited range of devices, Ikea is finally doubling down on next-gen smart home tech with Matter support. You’ll be able to pick from more than 20 new smart home devices. To recap, Matter is a recent universal standard that brings all your smart gadgets together under one interface, letting them talk to each other without the usual bickering between ecosystems. Supported…
Looking ahead, this calendar year is shaping up to be one of the strongest ever for Take-Two, as we plan to launch Sid Meier’s Civilization VII on February 11th, Mafia: The Old Country in the Summer, Grand Theft Auto VI in the Fall, and Borderlands 4. Read the full article here
It’s all very well buying a pair of cans that support hi-res audio, but if your phone isn’t equally skilled you might as well have just stuffed all those banknotes into your ears and set them on fire. Enter the Sennheiser HDB 630. To ensure you can hear the HDB 630 at their very best, Sennheiser has put a dongle in the box that enables 24-bit/96kHz hi-res streaming over aptX Adaptive, so any phone, tablet or laptop with a USB-C port can feel the benefit. With the noise-cancelling turned on and audio quality pumped to the max the battery will…
Amazon is making it easier for self-published authors to release their ebooks in multiple languages with Kindle Translate, a new AI translation tool that launched in beta on Thursday to a limited number of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors. In its early form, it can translate between English and Spanish and from German to English, at no extra cost to authors.Authors can select the languages they want their books translated to, set individual list prices for those translations, and preview them before publication. Amazon states that “all translations are automatically evaluated for accuracy before publication” and specified that there will…
Apple is reportedly about to ink a $1 billion a year deal with Google to power it’s long held ambitions to turn Siri into an Artificial Intelligence powerhouse on smartphones, Mac computers, and beyond. A new Bloomberg report says the previously rumoured agreement is now in its final stages. The deal that would give Apple access to a custom version of Google Gemini. The model would dwarf the current capacity of Apple Intelligence, the report says. The 1.2 trillion parameter would almost be ten times more powerful than the 150 billion parameter model Apple currently offers users. “The move would…
A group of senators is urging President Donald Trump to preserve the US’s edge in AI development by denying China access to its most advanced chips and models. The bipartisan resolution, submitted by Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), comes just days after Trump walked back a statement that suggested he would consider allowing Nvidia to sell its powerful Blackwell chip in China.The resolution, which is cosponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Dave McCormick (R-PA), brings attention to China’s “efforts to close the AI gap and leap ahead” of the US when it comes to developing and…
Nintendo has confirmed the inevitable – the original Nintendo Switch games console is beginning to fade from the company’s focus. In its latest earnings report, the Mario maker said moving forward, the company’s focus will be on developing titles with the Switch 2 in mind. “Nintendo Switch 2 is designed to be the new standard for the Nintendo Switch concept, maintaining the experience of being able to “play anytime, anywhere, with anyone,” the company said in the earnings report. “Going forward, we will shift our primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2 and expand our business around this new platform,”…
The FBI is attempting to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its numerous mirrors, like Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI subpoena, which was posted on the official Archive.today X account, was sent to web domain registrar Tucows on October 30th demanding the “customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address” associated with Archive.today.The subpoena also requests telephone records, payment information, internet session info, network addresses, and even the services the site’s owner has used, such as email or cloud computing services. It goes on to say that this info…
The next-generation iPhone Air smartphone could double down on cameras and negate one of the key complaints about the original device, according to new rumours. The iPhone Air only has a single 48-megapixel Fusion Camera partially due to its ultra thin design and the space consumed by the battery restricting the opportunity to add more sensors. However, given the price of the handset, some users have expressed concern over the absence of a second sensor. A phone that costs a grand having only one camera isn’t ideal no matter how slim the design. Our reviewer claimed the “single camera just…
With Black Friday and the holiday season approaching, packages will start piling up, making now a good time to take steps to protect your doorstep from porch pirates. Thankfully, multiple retailers are already offering early Black Friday discounts on smart security devices to help you keep tabs on deliveries, with Amazon’s and Best Buy’s deal on the latest Blink Video Doorbell standing out at just $28.99 ($31 off) until 12AM ET on November 7th. You can also buy it with Blink’s Sync Module Core, which allows for on-demand live view, two-way audio, and improves battery life, for $34.99 ($35 off)…
Christopher Ward has brought back one of its most interesting complications — and I couldn’t be happier. The new C1 Jump Hour Mk V, launched today, marks the fifth generation of the brand’s jump hour watches, tracing its roots all the way back to the 2011 C9 Harrison. That original watch introduced Johannes Jahnke’s JJ01 modular movement, and every model since has refined the formula. This latest version feels like the point where old Christopher Ward and new Christopher Ward meet. As Product Director Jörg Bader puts it, “The Mk V is a bold reinterpretation, fusing modern Christopher Ward design…
Microsoft AI wants you to know that its work toward superintelligence involves keeping humans “at the top of the food chain.” In a lengthy blog post on Thursday, Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman highlighted the formation of a new team dedicated to developing a “humanist superintelligence” that’s “designed only to serve humanity.”This kind of superintelligence, according to Suleyman, won’t be “an unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy” and will instead be “carefully calibrated, contextualized, within limits.” Suleyman joined Microsoft last year as the CEO of Microsoft AI, which has only recently launched its first in-house models for…