On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches bugs, among other things.
After strongly discouraging tech companies from buying Nivdia’s AI chips in August, the country is now banning the practice outright.
Google is starting the rollout of its Ask Gemini AI assistant in Google Meet, but it will initially only be available to “select Google Workspace customers.” The assistant can answer participant’s questions by referring to captions generated during the call, resources like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides they have permission to view, and public websites. […]
Apple’s slimmest iPhone uses a “revolutionary” battery design that allows the cell to fill more space within the device, boosting overall energy storage.
Logitech’s next flagship wireless gaming mouse is ditching mechanical switches for an analog system equipped with haptics actuators to simulate the feeling of a click. The mouse is called the Pro X2 Superstrike, and it’s coming early next year for $179.99. The inductive analog system (which Logitech calls Haptic Inductive Trigger System, or HITS) boasts […]
A new study from Pew suggests that Americans aren’t particularly optimistic about AI. A full 50 percent of respondents said they were more concerned than excited about the use of AI in their daily lives. That’s down ever so slightly from 52 percent in 2023, but it’s up significantly from 37 percent in 2021. Americans […]
Logitech has announced the Astro A20 X wireless gaming headset, which has a feature that console players might appreciate having: it lets you swap between audio from two platforms, be it an Xbox, Switch, PC, or PS5. It launches October 8th for $179.99. The A20 X ships with a transmitter called the Playsync Base that […]
Garmin is launching its Venu 4 smartwatch today, expanding on the accessibility and sleep tracking features introduced with the Venu 3 two years ago. It’s available now in 41mm and 45mm models and starts at $549.99 which is $100 more expensive than the Venu 3. Following the Venu 3’s introduction of nap tracking the Venu […]
Zoom’s vision of filling meetings with AI clones has nearly arrived. On Wednesday, the video conferencing app announced that you’ll soon be able to create a “photorealistic” avatar of yourself in case you aren’t “camera-ready.” That means your AI avatar can appear polished if you’ve just crawled out of bed. Zoom plans on launching this […]
Zoom is launching new tools for its meeting and productivity platform including new AI avatars that would resemble users.