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It seems increasingly likely that Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature the company has built in-house. A new report both confirms earlier reporting from and clarifies that Apple’s first modem won’t be quite as capable as the chips the company…

 Beyond the Alphabet (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central) Beyond the Alphabet is a weekly column that focuses on the tech world both inside and out of the confines of Mountain View. Oh the woes of living on the…

The warning extends beyond voice scams. The FBI announcement details how criminals also use AI models to generate convincing profile photos, identification documents, and chatbots embedded in fraudulent websites. These tools automate the creation of deceptive content while reducing previously…

Scientists swab the cloaca of a wild leopard shark at North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane, Australia, in order to examine its recent diet MVErdman A team of scientists, conservationists and vets will soon set out to achieve a world first…

Is your weekend a bit bare-bones? Here’s something that could entertain you for a minute or two. The chatbot Grok-2 is now free for everyone to fool around with on X. We knew this was coming and, well, now it’s…

Filter-feeding mollusks respond to water pollution in a way that is very detectable and measurable. With that fact in mind, scientists have created a commercial water-quality-monitoring system that uses electronically augmented live mollusks as its sensors. Oysters, mussels, scallops and…

The December Pixel Drop is here and most of the new features are upgrades to Gemini or are otherwise powered by AI. There are plenty of non-AI improvements too, of course. Let’s start with Gemini. If you’re running Gemini Advanced,…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle took to rival social network X today to announce the release of Llama 3.3,…

The longest-lived Studio desktop was the Surface Studio 2, which was released in 2018 and wasn’t replaced until a revised Surface Studio 2+ was announced in late 2022. It used an even higher-quality display panel, but it still used previous-generation…

December 6, 2024 3 min read Why ‘Tipping Points’ Are the Wrong Way to Talk about Climate Change A new paper warns the concept of “tipping points” doesn’t do much to encourage climate action from laypeople and policymakers By Chelsea…