Apple is announcing the long-awaited HomePod Mini 2 with a new chip that can power Siri AI – but support for those new AI features won’t be available at launch. The speaker is also getting a new sound glow feature that syncs its LED lights with a song’s album art, and it can now be […]
Apple is introducing a refreshed Apple TV 4K today with a pair of interesting new hardware features: far-field microphones to talk to Siri hands-free and Find My built into the remote. The fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, announced at Apple’s Welcome Home event in New York City, is the first model to support the Siri AI […]
Apple is hosting an event on October 13th that seems like it will be all about its efforts for the smart home. The event’s tagline is certainly a big hint — “Welcome home” — but the company is also heavily rumored to be launching a series of new smart home products soon. One of the […]
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the safety of its chatbots, but has continued releasing […]
Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported from a launch event in Hangzhou on Tuesday. Several Chinese outlets put the starting price slightly lower,…
Almost half of women working in tech, 47%, say they have been treated unfairly at work because of their gender, according to a new survey by ISACA. Two years ago, the figure was 42%. The rise was noted by ISACA, a global association for IT governance a…
As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron’s Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that’s somewhere within the $30-42 million range. That would make it […]
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it’s now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry’s best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available […]
Most brands still plan media around a familiar sequence: earn attention, create interest, drive the click and optimize the conversion. Meta’s Muse suggests that sequence is about to get compressed.
Elon Musk has handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him both the party’s top known donor and the biggest established midterm donor. $158 million of that money – one of the largest political donations in American history – has been funneled into the Senate […]