Month: May 2024

Translation Tech Is Amazing, Except When It’s Not

We can hold surprisingly deep conversations across languages using simple apps on our phones. But even as these apps get a fresh boost from AI, they can still lead to some awkward moments. Source

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More details of the AI upgrades heading to iOS 18 have leaked

Artificial intelligence is clearly going to feature heavily in iOS 18 and all the other software updates Apple is due to tell us about on June 10, and new leaks reveal more about what’s coming in terms of AI later in the year. These leaks come courtesy of “people familiar…

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NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, May 5 (game #63)

Sunday’s NYT Strands puzzle is a relatively straightforward one – but that doesn’t make it a piece of cake exactly. Very few Strands games are that, and you’ll still need your wits about you to solve it. But don’t despair – I’ve got some hints for you below if you…

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Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, May 5 (game #832)

Hello and welcome to Sunday’s edition of Quordle – the puzzle game that challenges you to solve four Wordles simultaneously, or consecutively in the case of the Daily Sequence variant. It’s great fun, but potentially tough – so read on for some hints if you need help. SPOILER WARNING: Information…

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The newest Star Wars Acolyte trailer seems to reveal the show’s big bad

Disney’s newest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, is just a month away on Disney Plus, and the newest trailer for it hints that the show will pull on a thread that Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi tugged on back in 2017: Is the Jedi order actually…

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6-screen laptop manufacturer is very much alive — Acme Portable’s Megapac L3 is the original hexadisplay mobile powerstation and is still on sale, shame that it is still using old dual CPU tech from AMD and Intel

It was hard not to shed a tear when MediaWorkstation disappeared, taking its wild six-screen a-X2P workstation laptop with it.  The company’s workstation laptop promised to be an incredible, and ridiculous, powerhouse, with two AMD EPYC Genoa Zen 4 CPUs, two full-size GPUs, up to 3TB DDR5 RAM, one M.2…

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