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Apple's long-promised overhaul of Siri has hit fresh problems during internal testing, forcing the company to push several key features out of the iOS 26.4 update that was slated for March and spread them across later releases, Bloomberg is reporting.
The new Siri -- first announced at WWDC in June 2024 and originally due by early 2025 -- struggles to reliably process queries, takes too long to respond and sometimes falls back on OpenAI's ChatGPT instead of Apple's own technology, the report said. Apple h
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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The Oppo Find X9s initially became official last month, and Oppo is launching it in India on May 21. Earlier this month, a rumor claimed it would start at INR 70,000 ($729). Today a new rumor says the Find X9s will actually start at INR 79,999 ($834) instead. That's a pretty wild difference, and obviously we don't know which rumor is accurate, so take all of this with a hefty... Read more ›
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This UK startup wants to make your physical filming location a ‘fingerprint’ to verify authenticity, rather than relying on software. Read more ›
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Coros continues to tweak and improve its existing lineup with a big new feature addition. Read more ›
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Samsung's 2026 OLED TV range is priced very aggressively in the UK, with prices starting at £1,299 Read more ›
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Samsung’s next-generation flagship chipset, the Exynos 2700, could adopt a new packaging design, according to a recent report. The company is reportedly planning to move away from Fan-Out Wafer-Level Packaging (FOWLP) technology for the upcoming SoC. Fan-Out Wafer-Level Packaging (FOWLP), which Samsung has used since the Exynos 2400, reportedly helped improve thermal performance. However, the technology is said to have been less profitable for the company due to its complex... Read more ›
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Ahead of Toy Story 5, we spoke with Walt Disney Imagineering software lead Evan Klein about the massive tech overhaul powering the newly upgraded Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin — from Unreal Engine-powered ride vehicles to dynamic gameplay systems and networked targets. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for May 16, No. 600. Read more ›
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Бизнесу, разработчикам и продуктовым командам уже недостаточно подключить одну нейросеть и считать задачу закрытой. Для текста лучше подходит одна модель, для кода — другая, для изображений — третья, для видео, аудио, 3D и эмбеддингов — отдельные классы решений. Поэтому на первый план выходит не просто API нейросеть, а единый слой доступа, где можно управлять разными моделями через один понятный интерфейс, один баланс и один набор правил интеграции.AI API ключ нужен,... Read more ›
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The Krafted Edge is shaped like a closed laptop, sits flush beneath your notebook while charging it, and fits in any laptop bag without extra bulk. Read more ›
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The SR-71 Blackbird is a legend in the world of military aircraft, and NASA may have received one a bit earlier than it was supposed to. What happened? Read more ›
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Face ID isn't just for your phone. SwitchBot's new smart lock line uses facial recognition to unlock your deadbolt. Read more ›
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for May 16, No. 1,070. Read more ›
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After decades in public service roles, former defence minister Harjit Sajjan is now a defence-tech entrepreneur with Juno Industries. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Walking into Mexico City's sprawling central Zocalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital's cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in one direction. An attached church, known as the Metropolitan Sanctuary, tilts in the other. The nearby National Palace also seems off-kilter. The teetering of many of the capital's historic buildings is the most visible sign... Read more ›
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sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in. A fiber optic technique used to detect earthquakes can also pick up the faint vibrations of nearby speech, researchers reported this week here at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union. Freely available artificial intelligence (AI) software turned the fiber optic data into... Read more ›
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A four-foot humanoid robot named Gabi has become a monk at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, participating in a modified initiation ceremony where it pledged to respect life, obey humans, act peacefully toward other robots and objects. "Robots are destined to collaborate with humans in every field in the future," Hong Min-suk, a manager at the Jogye Order, the largest sect of Buddhism in South Korea, tells the New York... Read more ›
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America's school districts "spent billions on technology during the pandemic," reports the Washington Post. "But now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children." Nationwide [U.S.] schools invested at least $15 billion and possibly as much as $35 billion from federal pandemic relief funds on laptops, learning software and other technology between 2020 and 2024, according to an estimate by the Edunomics Lab,... Read more ›
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A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman "has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences," reports the New York Times. And the chain's reporters "are not happy about it." Journalists in many of the company's newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the new... Read more ›
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CNN reports on a "sudden surge of claimed sightings" of "unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas" along Ohio's Mahoning River. "And it stopped just as quickly as it started," says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports .... Byron doesn't take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before publicizing their claims. Once word got... Read more ›
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All 20 of America's state-run healthcare marketplace sites "include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies," reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg: Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap, Google, Nextdoor, and LinkedIn, among others. Some of the data collected and shared with... Read more ›
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Cisco has released an open-source tool "to trace the origins of AI models," reports SC World, "and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain." [Cisco's Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a "fingerprint" for AI models that can then be compared to other model fingerprints to determine potential shared origins.... Read more ›
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"Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops," reports ScienceAlert, "and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows.... to germinate in 'anticipation' of the coming deluge." The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers the first direct evidence that seeds and seedlings can sense and respond to sounds in nature... "The energy of the rain... Read more ›
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September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization's "Trump Phone" — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward: FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name "T1" show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in January... [T]he phone was submitted for testing by another company... Read more ›
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