Codemasters’ Formula 1 franchise is back for another lap. Publisher EA says the tracks in F1 2025 have a more realistic look and feel, thanks to LiDAR scanning. The new installment arrives on May 30. Although EA didn’t offer much detail about LiDAR’s use, we can safely assume it involved high-resolution 3D scans of real-world […]
Digital minimalists rejoice as the brand new Light Phone 3 is here, but temper those expectations slightly as the price might put you off. Designed to offer just a basic “smartphone” experience with telephony, messaging, music, notes, hotspot, and maps functions alongside an alarm, the Light Phone 3 is effectively as simple as it gets […]
The internet has become a Studio Ghibli-inspired playground. Admirers of the Japanese animation studio are using a new update from ChatGPT to create portraits and memes inspired by the distinct artistic style popularized by filmmaker and studio co-creator Hayao Miyazaki. The trend emerged within a day of OpenAI’s introducing new native image-generation capabilities Tuesday within […]
The Lumon Terminal Pro — the computer used in Apple TV’s hit series “Severance” — has appeared on Apple’s retail website. When shopping Apple.com, you’ll see the new device, adorned with a red “New” label, when you click to view the available Mac computers Apple has for sale from the top-level navigation. But sorry, “Severance” […]
Google has the pedal to the metal on its AI development. Just a few months after the debut of Gemini 2.0, the tech giant has unveiled another upgrade in Gemini 2.5. As with any new AI launch, Google is touting a strong performance on LMArena for Gemini 2.5, particularly its capabilities in coding, mathematics and […]
Apple officially set the date for WWDC 2025 today, which is where it will announce iOS 19 and its other new software platforms. According to rumors, iOS 19 is set to be one of the biggest software revamps in Apple’s history. Now, a new video from Jon Prosser has more tidbits on what to expect […]
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has quietly released a new large language model that’s already sending ripples through the artificial intelligence industry — not just for its capabilities, but for how it’s being deployed. The 641-gigabyte model, dubbed DeepSeek-V3-0324, appeared on AI repository Hugging Face today with virtually no announcement, continuing the company’s pattern of low-key […]
A surge in hacking attempts by criminals, fraudsters and spy agencies has reached a level of “unprecedented complexity” that only artificial intelligence will be able to combat, according to Microsoft. “Last year we tracked 30 billion phishing emails,” says Vasu Jakkal, vice president of security at the US-based tech giant. “There’s no way any human […]
After weeks of some Google Maps users reporting that their Timelines had been wiped of all the places they’ve visited, as spotted by 9to5Google earlier this month, Google has confirmed that some users’ data was deleted and is, in some cases, unrecoverable. In a statement to The Verge, Google spokesperson Genevieve Park said, “We briefly […]
Apple is working on adding cameras to the Apple Watch in order to enable AI features like Visual Intelligence within the next two years, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On Newsletter. The cameras will be “inside the display” for the standard Series Watch, while the Apple Watch Ultra would feature it on […]
At its GTC conference, Nvidia (NVDA -0.75%) gave investors 1 trillion potential reasons to buy its stock. That came in the form of CEO Jensen Huang projecting that data center infrastructure capital expenditure (capex) would hit $1 trillion or more by 2028. Investors, nonetheless, largely shrugged off the robust forecast and other upbeat news from […]
In a controversial experiment, a team of physicists investigated whether we could harness the Earth’s rotational energy to generate electricity. It’s a deceptively simple idea that researchers have only started to grapple with over the last decade. But whether the concept will ever turn into a feasible source of renewable energy remains to be seen, […]
