TL;DR Apple is considering launching a Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses rival in 2027. It’s also reported that it wants to launch camera-equipped AirPods. The company is aiming to create more products that can use the Vision Pro’s ability to understand its surroundings. Developing the Vision Pro was an expensive endeavor for Apple, which is why … Read more
“Some prominent privacy advocates are encouraging customers to pull their data” from 23andMe, reports SFGate. But can you actually do that? 23andMe makes it easy to feel like you’ve protected your genetic footprint. In their account settings, customers can download versions of their data to a computer and choose to delete the data attached to … Read more
A few months ago, the SuperDrive went out of stock on Apple’s online store in the U.S., and it is now listed as sold out or unavailable in all countries. Given it has yet to return, it seems likely that Apple has discontinued the 16-year-old accessory. Introduced in 2008, the SuperDrive is an external CD/DVD … Read more
Phil Nickinson / DIgital Trends Whether you turned on subtitles on Disney Plus to help your kids remember the words to their favorite songs, or you turned down the volume while watching the new Marvel movie so you didn’t wake anyone up during naptime, you may not be sure how to turn them back off. While this … Read more
Key Takeaways To copy text from an image, open the image, launch Snipping Tool, select Snip > New, take a screenshot of the image, click “Text Actions,” and choose “Copy All Text.” To copy text using PowerToys, install and launch the tool, select Text Extractor > Open Settings, turn on “Enable Text Extractor,” and use … Read more
BBC Social media algorithms, in their commonly known form, are now 15 years old. They were born with Facebook’s introduction of ranked, personalised news feeds in 2009 and have transformed how we interact online. And like many teenagers, they pose a challenge to grown-ups who hope to curb their excesses. It’s not for want of … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More This year, our team at MIT Data to AI lab decided to try using large language models (LLMs) to perform a task usually left to very different machine learning tools — detecting anomalies in time series … Read more
Jackery Jackery has given the Explorer 2000 Pro an upgrade to bring it into 2024, and is also slashing the price for the launch sale. The Explorer 2000 v2 is an updated version of Explorer 2000 Pro, giving it a few much-needed upgrades. Also: The best portable power stations you can buy: Expert tested Explorer 2000 … Read more
Pokémon developer Game Freak has confirmed it suffered a breach as troves of internal materials pertaining to the franchise — from source codes to early and, in some cases, scrapped character designs — hit social media this weekend. In a published on Thursday (translated from Japanese), the company said it discovered its servers were hacked … Read more
It’s never been easier to discover so much about your family history, including predisposed medical conditions. The top genetic tests out right now are from Ancestry and the first in the business, 23andMe. Since they have come out there have been stories of financial struggles and data breaches at 23andMe that may leave you a … Read more