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  Apple Reportedly Begins Production of M5 Chips Expected to Power Upcoming iPad Pro, Mac Models

  Apple's M5 chips are reportedly in mass production, according to a South Korean publication. Following the October 2024 launch of MacBook Pro models with M4 Pro and M4 Max chipsets, the M5 chips are expected to debut in the second half of 2025. Produced using TSMC's 3nm process technology, the new processors are expected to power Apple's upcoming M...

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  Apple Said to Stop Development of AR Glasses for Mac Computers

  Apple has reportedly halted the development of new AR smart glasses meant to work with Mac computers. Following the launch of the Apple Vision Pro as its first mixed reality headset, last year in the US, the AR glasses were expected to be Apple's most ambitious wearable since the Vision Pro, before the project was shelved, according to a Bloomberg ...

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  Prime Target Series Now Streaming on Apple TV+: Everything You Need to Know

  Prime Target, a new conspiracy thriller series, premiered on Apple TV+ on January 21, 2025. The show stars Leo Woodall as Edward Brooks, a mathematician who uncovers a world-changing loophole hidden in prime numbers, allowing access to global computer systems. This discovery sets him on a dangerous path, with powerful forces attempting to destroy h...

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  AMD Adds Dell as Commercial PC Customer for the First Time

  Dell has decided to use AMD chips in some of its computers aimed at business customers, according to AMD executives who are speaking Monday at the CES show in Las Vegas.

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  Elon Musk’s Neuralink Cleared to Start Brain Chip Trial in Canada

  Toronto Western Hospital would be the first non-US site of a trial for a device created by Neuralink Corp. Neuralink’s first product aims to allow patients to control external devices, such as computers, through their thoughts.

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  Apple Intelligence Writing Tools Support for Windows Apps Arrives on Parallels Desktop

  Apple Intelligence can now be accessed while running Windows applications on a Mac computer using Parallels Desktop. The first wave of Apple Intelligence features started its rollout to US users earlier this week with the iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 software updates, and Parallels has added support for the feature.

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  Mac Mini With M4 Chip and Apple Intelligence Launched in India: Specifications, Price

  Apple on Tuesday launched a refreshed version of the Mac Mini — its compact desktop computer, building upon the unveiling of the 24-inch iMac M4 a day before. The new Mac Mini is offered in two chipset options: M4 and M4 Pro, with the latter being a new introduction. The M4 variant is claimed to deliver up to 1.7 times faster performance than the...

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  Elon Musk’s xAI Introduces Image Understanding Feature to Grok AI

  Elon Musk, the founder of the artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI, announced a new feature for Grok on Monday. The in-house AI chatbot is now getting image understanding capability that allows it to process and analyse the content in an image. Users can now upload an image and ask the AI questions based on it.

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  Mistral Announces Pixtral 12B Multimodal AI Model With 'Computer Vision' Feature

  Mistral released its first multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Pixtral 12B on Wednesday. The AI firm, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on GitHub and Hugging Face for users to download and test it out. Notably, despite being multimodal, Pixtral can only process image...

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  Microsoft to Host Cybersecurity Summit After CrowdStrike-Induced IT Outage

  Microsoft has announced that it will host a summit next month that will let industry members understand how to improve cybersecurity systems, in the aftermath of a faulty update from security firm CrowdStrike that left millions of Windows computers around the world in an unusable state on July 19. The gathering on September 10 at its headquarters w...

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  Scientists Baffled By 2,000-Year-Old 'Computer' Discovered 120 Years Ago

  The hand-powered instrument used a wind-up system to track the celestial movements of the sun, moon, and planets.

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  Western Digital Announces 6TB 2.5-Inch Portable Hard Disk Drive in India

  Western Digital has expanded its WD, WD Black and SanDisk product lineup in India. The California-based computer drive manufacturer has introduced the WD My Passport portable hard disk drives (HDDs) line and SanDisk G-Drive ArmorATD in 6TB capacities in the country. These are advertised to be the first 2.5-inch portable HDDs ever offered in a 6TB c...

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  Neuralink Brain Chip Implant Wires Now Stable in First Patient, Musk Hopes for More Human Trials This Year

  Neuralink's first brain chip implant in a human has stabalised, company executives have confirmed this week. The device works by using tiny wires, which are thinner than a human hair, to capture signals from the brain and translate those into actions such as moving a mouse cursor on a computer screen.

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  Solos AirGo Vision Smart Glasses With GPT-4o and Google Gemini Integration Reportedly Unveiled

  Solos AirGo Vision smart glasses were recently unveiled by the company, as per a report. The Hong Kong-based brand so far only offers audio-based smart features, and this will be the first time when its device will also provide artificial intelligence (AI) features with computer vision. It is said that the smart glasses will be integrated with GPT-...

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  Teen Computer Prodigy, Who Died At 15, To Become First "Millennial Saint"

  A UK-born teenager, who died in 2006 from leukemia, is set to become the Catholic Church's first "millennial saint".