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M3 MacBook Pro 14-inch review: The majestic murderer
The new M3 14-inch MacBook Pro – now the cheapest Pro you can get – murdered the 13-inch MacBook Pro, but no one is shedding a tear. Before Apple launched the brand-spankin’ new MacBook Pro at the spooky “Scary Fast” livestream on Oct. 30 – the night before Halloween – the most affordable Pro was […]
Post-Black Friday fitness tracker and smartwatch deals
TL;DR: Black Friday may be over, but that doesn’t mean the deals are done. Here are some of the best post-Black Friday fitness tracker and smartwatch deals. The best post-Black Friday fitness tracker and smartwatch deals: Whether you’re planning to jumpstart (or restart) your fitness routine, trying to hit a new personal record, or want […]
‘Wonka’ review: Can Timothée Chalamet win over the haters?
The naysayers were wrong. Wonka is wonderful. Now, admittedly, some cynicism around Wonka was warranted. Initially sold as a prequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory novels (and the movie adaptations), this seemed an unneeded origin story in the vein of such groan-worthy affairs as Solo, Oz the Great and Powerful, or X-Men […]
‘Animate Anyone’ heralds the approach of full-motion deepfakes
As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with Animate Anyone, bad actors can puppeteer people better than ever. The new generative video technique was developed by researchers at Alibaba Group’s Institute for Intelligent Computing. It’s […]
For director Takashi Yamazaki, the influences of Godzilla Minus One go beyond the atom bomb
In the almost 70 years since Toho’s original Godzilla feature astounded filmgoers with its practically created depiction of monstrous, atomic devastation, Toho’s larger franchise of kaiju-focused projects has expanded and evolved to include battles with robots, three-headed monsters, and even King Kong. But all that growth has never really erased the king of monster’s textual […]
A Y Combinator-backed startup called Velt wants to make more apps collaborative
Online collaboration has become routine thanks to productivity apps like Google Docs and team design platform Figma, among others, but there are still hosts of internet-connected applications where users cannot interact with colleagues, add notes or otherwise collaborate with one another. That’s something a new startup called Velt wants to fix with the launch of […]
AI invades ‘word of the year’ lists at Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster
Few would disagree that 2023 was, in the world of technology at least, dominated by artificial intelligence. The dictionaries have taken note in their “word of the year” lists, and notably all the AI-related words they highlight are, in fact, existing words that have been appropriated and regurgitated with new meanings. A little on the […]
Atomic Industries closes $17M seed to exascale America’s industrial base
In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously posed the distinction between companies that deal in “atoms” versus those that deal in “bits.” In its crudest terms, the former category includes businesses focused on things like hardware and manufacturing; the latter, software and financial services. Just shy of ten years on, the distinction now strikes […]
The Eve Energy smart plug now works with Samsung SmartThings Energy platform
This week, Eve Systems announced a new partnership with Samsung that brings the Eve Energy plug’s excellent energy monitoring capabilities to the SmartThings home automation platform. The integration should be live for all users by December 4th. Eve’s Thread-based smart plug and power meter works with Samsung SmartThings through Matter, but as the Matter standard […]
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hackers were also able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry.” But 23andMe would not say how many […]