An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very rare form of genetic deafness, is being hailed as a milestone in the quest to treat hearing loss. "It's the first time in history there's a new drug for hearing loss," says Zheng-Yi Chen, an associate scientist at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston who was not involved in ..

According to a new rumor from the prolific Digital Chat Station on Weibo, Redmi is currently working on not one, not two, but three different smartphones which will all have a 10,000 mAh battery. The battery used in these handsets will be single-cell (so no chance of seeing it in the EU unfortunately), and will support 100W wired charging. The devices that will use it will be both in the mainstream Note line, as well as in the performance-oriented K series. The Redmi Notes in China have, in ..

Smart has recently unveiled the Concept #2 EV during its global brand event in Beijing earlier this week. As you may recall, the automaker also teased the prototype last year under heavy camouflage. With this reveal, the model is a callback to the brands compact city car roots, offering a two-seater design akin to the [] The post Smart Shows Off Concept #2 Two-Seater EV appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

OnePlus has a new smartwatch called the Watch 4, though the brand has yet to formally announce its existence. Instead, the company discreetly updated its website to feature the wearable, revealing all the details and specifications. Like last years Watch 3, the device is basically a rebadged version of an OPPO product. In this case, [] The post OnePlus Quietly Lists Watch 4 On Its Malaysian Website appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

The first ever iPhone was unveiled in January 2027, and went on sale in June that year. Thus, in 2027 Apple is celebrating the iPhone's 20th anniversary. The company has long been rumored to be planning something special for this occasion, and today a new leak from Digital Chat Station on Weibo purports to bring us more information. According to the prolific leaker, Apple is working with Samsung on developing the 20th anniversary iPhone's screen. The panel will not have a polarizer, and will ..

Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would have imposed the nation's first statewide moratorium on new data centers, saying she supported the idea in principle but would not block a major redevelopment project tied to jobs and local investment. Instead, she said she will create a council to study data centers' effects while also signing a separate measure to deny them certain state tax incentives. Politico reports: "After prior redevelopment efforts failed, the Town of Jay worked for two ..

"If boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it."

X sedia menawarkan sokongan permesejan pada aplikasi utama mereka. Dalam usaha untuk membuatkan pengguna lebih memfokuskan ciri permesejan yang ditawarkan, kini X turut memperkenalkan sebuah aplikasi berasingan dinamakan X Chat, terlebih dahulu untuk pengguna iPhone. X Chat ditawarkan secara percuma, dan menyertakan sejumlah ciri menarik, termasuk seperti menghalang rakaman skrin, menghantar mesej menghilang, serta sokongan []

The boss of the controversial tech company with UK government contracts published a 22-point plan on the future of the West.

PARIS, April 25 Ubisoft said on Thursday that Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced, a remake of its 2013 p...

Samsung is rumored to be introducing its first foldable smartphone with a wider aspect ratio this year in response to the iPhone Fold coming in September. Huawei has already unveiled its entrant in this arena, the Pura X Max. If you've ever wondered how the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Wide (or whatever it will end up being called) compares to the Pura X Max in terms of size and dimensions, here's an image that has the answer, courtesy of a new leak by the prolific Ice Universe on X. The Samsung ..

Intel's Robert Hallock argues that there is one key factor that would make his employer's hybrid CPU design really good: software optimisation. No, really. That's currently all he's asking for from game developers and studios. In an interview with German tech portal PC Games Hardware, Hallock said that the difference between a game that has [] The post Intel Says Software Optimisation Could Unlock 30% Performance For Hybrid CPU Design appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Alasdair Keane visits the underground insect farm turning food waste into animal feed.

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide will be the first Samsung foldable with a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Weve got a new batch of renders for the upcoming Xperia 1 VIII, and they are our best look at the device yet. According to MyMobiles, were looking at the finalized design, and the source assures us they are based on the same CAD data used by Sony suppliers. They depict a familiar design upfront with a tall and narrow-looking display with the front-facing camera integrated inside the top bezel next to the earpiece. Earlier renders suggested we might see a punch-hole cutout approach, but it seems ..

Shares of Intel have more than doubled this year on optimism that backing from the government will help the company's position in AI.

BMW's latest concept car moves the color-changing tech it debuted back at CES 2022 closer to reality by embedding an E Ink panel directly into the hood. The Verge reports: BMW's previous concepts wrapped the entire vehicle in a patchwork of E Ink panels that were all custom-sized and shaped to match its contours. It was an approach that wasn't practical for mass production, and one that wasn't very durable. The new BMW iX3 Flow Edition is potentially the most exciting of all of BMW's concepts ..

WASHINGTON, April 25 Getting around without Google Maps. No longer scrolling Instagram at the bus stop. Ditching...

Sam Altman on Thursday wrote a brief letter of apology to the people of Tumbler Ridge, Canada in the wake of a January mass shooting.

Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.

This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.

An Intel laptop with a new Wildcat Lake CPU is turning heads is it more Neo than the MacBook Neo?

A report says Samsung's mobile division could post its first-ever annual loss in 2026, as rising memory costs, tougher competition, and pressure across products like foldables and smartwatches weigh on the business. SammyGuru reports: Samsung boss TM Roh reportedly told company leaders that the mobile (MX) business could lose money this year. That warning has clearly rattled management. The MX unit has long been a key pillar for Samsung. That's why the idea of it slipping into the red is a ..

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DeepSeek V4 Preview costs about 85 percent less than GPT-5.5. See how the new open-source model compares to its U.S. rivals.

XChat, the standalone app for accessing X's messaging feature, is available to download now for iOS . X first suggested it would be stripping direct messaging from X in 2025 , but at least for now, XChat is available in the original X app, the web and this new app. Based on its launch video , the new XChat app offers many of the elements of modern messaging X had already introduced to its chats feature , like the ability to delete and edit messages, block screenshots and send disappearing ..

The iPhone 18 was recently rumored to come with some downgrades to keep costs low, including a display material first used in the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022. However, it's not all bad news for the iPhone 18, apparently. According to a new report, the device will come fitted with 12GB of RAM. That's up from 8GB on its predecessor, so it's quite a jump, especially seeing as how we're currently in the middle of a RAM pricing crisis thanks to AI data centers using up all of the production capacity. The ..

Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1 Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.

Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.

The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, has vetoed a bill that halts the construction of large data centers in the state until the fall of 2027. While the bill passed both houses of the Maine's legislature on April 14, and Mills has suggested she'd support a temporary moratorium, the governor wanted a bill that would exempt an existing data center project in Jay, Maine . The bill specifically blocked the construction of data centers that consume 20 megawatts of power or more and directs state ..

Backrooms has got some new teaser images, and they've made me feel very unsettled.

Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 writes: Socket Security published an article on the compromise of the Bitwarden CLI client, which was pushed from Bitwarden's client repository. This breach was the next in a chain of supply- chain attacks that have affected Checkmarx KICS and Aqua Security's Trivy scanners. The breach was quickly detected and reported by JFrog on the GitHub repository; JFrog also provided a technical write-up. The Bitwarden team has released statements on a blog post indicating ..

Gemini is switching to Google Assistant for some Android Auto users.

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Google explains what's actually changing for your Home automations next month.

Have you ever noticed how Walgreens and CVS locations often end up across the street from each other? Well, Call of Duty and Battlefield have a similar thing going on. A mere eight days after the upcoming Call of Duty movie got an official premiere date , lo and behold: There's news from The Hollywood Reporter that a Battlefield movie is on the way . The project has some heavy- artillery star power attached. Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan ( Sinners ) is slated to produce and possibly star in the ..

The Department of Justice has announced that it's intervening on the behalf of xAI in the company's recent lawsuit against the state of Colorado. xAI first filed the suit in early April in response to a recent Colorado law that requires developers of "high-risk" AI systems (for example, ones used in healthcare, employment or housing) to both disclose and mitigate the risk of algorithmic discrimination in their systems. The law is set to go into effect in June, and the DOJ is now asking a ..

This is the OPPO Find X9 Ultra Hasselblad Earth Explorer Kit, a fancy name for the Find X9 Ultra's photography kit. But a fancy name is fitting for such a fancy product. While vivo's X300 Ultra photography kit attaches either a 200mm or a 400mm teleconverter lens to the phone, the Oppo Hasselblad kit has a single option that sits in between - a 300mm lens. But it's a longer lens that gets longer still if you use the provided lens hood. Here's what's in the box. You get a case for the phone with ..

Disney is reimagining its Classic Princess Dolls with plastic-free packaging that uses less material, improves durability, and makes the unboxing experience easier

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion more in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion now and another $30 billion tied to performance milestones. CNBC reports: Anthropic said the agreement expands on a longstanding partnership between the two companies. Earlier this month, Anthropic secured 5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity as part of an announcement with Google and Broadcom that will start to come online next year. Anthropic could decide to add additional gigawatts of compute in the ..