Lower prices are in effect on Apple's 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops, with fresh deals from just $1,499. Save up to $500 on MacBook Pro laptops at B&H; \- Image credit: Apple The steeper discounts can be found at Apple Authorized Reseller B&H; Photo, with a wide range of sale prices offering up to $500 off MacBook Pro laptops. Grab new markdowns on M5, M5 Pro, and M5 Max models (and even a few blowout M4 Pro specials, too). Save up to $500 on MacBook Pros Continue Reading on AppleInsider ..

Shortly after DJI launched the Osmo Pocket 4 globally, the drone maker revealed that it is releasing a Pro variant in China. Now, the brand has announced that this model will be making its way to international markets as well. A recent teaser posted to its official social media accounts confirms that the Osmo Pocket [] The post DJI Confirms Global Launch For Osmo Pocket 4P appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

While Nvidia has dominated the "infrastructure boom" since 2022's launch of ChatGPT and "the generative AI craze," CNBC writes that "This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a 'changing of the guard in AI.'" Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel notched gains of about 25%, while memory maker Micron jumped more than 37% and fiber-optic cable maker Corning climbed about 18%. All four of those companies have more than doubled in value ..

We know that everything has been getting more expensive lately, but the prices of Ultra-class phones have gone too high for many who are interested in getting one. In last weeks poll, there was a lot of interest in the Oppo Find X9 Ultra with two-thirds of voters showing interest in the device but only half of those thought that they could afford it. And the X9 Ultra isnt even the most expensive Ultra on the market, although it does cost more than most. People are looking at trade-in bonuses, ..

Deputy Investment, Trade and Industry Minister (MITI) Sim Tze Tzin says claims that electric vehicles (EVs) will become unaffordable under Malaysias new CBU EV policy are inaccurate. According to Sim, several Chinese brands including Zeekr are planning local assembly (CKD) operations in Malaysia, which means consumers will still have access to affordable EVs despite tighter []

Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, "a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices," reports ZDNet, "to keep code flowing as download counts grow.... Because software builds, continuous integration pipelines, and AI systems hammer registries at machine speed rather than human speed, the sites can't keep up. "That growth has brought a surge in bot traffic, automated publishing, security reports, and outright abuse, ..

To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland's Office of People's Counsel. The money "will be recovered in rates for decades" and "drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone," they said Friday, announcing an official complaint filed with America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Extra demand is expected from ..

NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it's now "at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention," reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that "just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone." On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to intervene before Swift's fate is sealed, completed its slate of environmental testing at the agency's ..

The space agency is planning to put astronauts on the moon in 2028.

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 entirely: Smart Gadgets Global, LLC... Smart Gadgets Global's website ..

"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 sound is enough to accelerate a seed's ..

The startup has expanded to more than 230 cities across the world, but has yet to become profitable.

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. "Think of Model Provenance Kit as a DNA test for AI ..

The German automaker said it would refocus on its "core business."

Prime Video has introduced Clips, which is basically TikTok but for Prime Video content.

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

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 those companies ..

The Federal Communications Commission issued a notice to allow software and firmware updates until January 2029.

Nvidia is pouring billions of dollars at a time into companies across the AI infrastructure stack, while also signing commercial deals with them.

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 out about the reports in Ohio, so did the obvious fakes. "I started ..

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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 tool, meaning that those articles will run with a generic credit rather ..

Nothing launched the Ear (open) TWS earphones in September 2024, but they are still offered in a single color - white. Well, the white model will be joined by a new color next week, as Nothing has announced it will launch the blue version of the Ear (open) on May 11. Nothing hasn't revealed the blue Ear (open) entirely yet, but it did give us a glimpse of the new colorway by sharing its photo on X. You can check it below. Lots of things are blue: the sky, the ocean, a 1996-era Walkman. Swimming ..

A "thermal event" caused a loss of power at a data center in Virginia, leading to an AWS outage.

The FCC has extended waivers allowing certain covered foreign-produced drones, drone components, and routers to continue receiving software and firmware updates until at least 2029, citing cybersecurity and consumer protection concerns.

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, an education think tank. By last ..

Elon Musk kini menyatakan syarikat xAI telah pun dibubarkan, dan ia kini menjadi bahagian memfokuskan kepada produk-produk kecerdasan buatan dibawah SpaceX dinamakan SpaceXAI. Untuk makluman, sebelum ini, SpaceX telah pun mengambll-alih xAI, iaitu syarikat memfokuskan kecerdasan buatan dan juga laman sosial X milik Elon Musk. Dengan pengambil-alihan berkenaan, sejumlah perkara dirancang oleh Elon Musk, termasuk []

Maryland is complaining to the federal energy regulator about PJM's plan to charge it $2 billion for grid upgrades that will mostly benefit data centers, especially as the state claims that the majority of these developments are being built in neighboring regions.

Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill. The company announced it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and has increased its usage of AI sixfold over the past few months.

Neweggs latest AM5 combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB DDR5 memory, a Samsung Gen 5 SSD, a free Corsair PSU, and a NordVPN subscription.

The Nextorage NEM-PAC is a quiet contender with good performance and a PS5-compliant heatsink. Its a competent Gen 4 SSD but is otherwise unexciting.

It looks as though the upcoming vlogging camera from Insta360 will offer a detachable remote control unit.

Gaming laptops are expensive, and only getting pricier as AI-driven shortages increase. Here are the best options for budget gaming laptops on the cheap, comprised of laptop models that we have tested throughout our full, stringent gaming test suite that measures performance in demanding graphical conditions.

The paper noted that VPN downloads spiked after enforcement began in the UK and several U.S. states.

We took Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry technology through a series of tests in Alan Wake 2 and the RTX Bonsai Diorama Demo to see how this tech reduces VRAM consumption and eliminates visual artifacts, thus helping pave the way to photorealistic real-time graphics.

Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will be released sometime in 2027 here's everything we know ahead of its eventual release.

The hit Elle Kennedy books series is finally getting its small screen adaptation. But when does Off Campus drop on Prime Video?

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