Month: July 2024

Samsung might make a big change to the Galaxy Z Flip 6’s cover screen

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 6 might introduce a surprising downgrade as a leaked specs sheet recently surfaced, and it was discovered that the cover screen will feature an IPS LCD panel instead of an AMOLED display.  That would be a big change as every Z Flip before this forthcoming model…

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This new AI voice assistant beat OpenAI to one of ChatGPT’s most anticipated features

OpenAI’s delaying of ChatGPT’s impressive Voice Mode upset many fans of the AI chatbot, but they may have now been scooped. French artificial intelligence developer Kyutai has introduced a real-time voice AI assistant named Moshi.  Moshi is designed to provide lifelike conversations with users through voice, like Alexa or Google…

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Whatsapp might make an AI feature Google and OpenAI don’t offer: an AI image of you

WhatsApp is apparently developing an artificial intelligence-fueled image creator that will allow users to make AI avatars of themselves to place in virtual settings they suggest. The feature, first identified by WABetaInfo in a future beta version of the Android version of WhatsApp, will likely use WhatsApp parent company Meta’s…

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How to create PDFs on iPhones using Notes

It may sound funny to say this, but PDF files — electronic copies of printed documents — are still around and are still very useful. Short for Portable Document Format, PDFs allow you to create a digital version of a paper document, letting you store and access them a lot…

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Still Wakes the Deep is a modern horror classic

Don’t look down. Don’t look down. Don’t look down. Waves the size of skyscrapers explode beneath me as I creep across a busted metal beam in the middle of the North Sea, suspended at the base of an oil rig that’s in the process of collapsing. I’m crawling swiftly but…

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‘Transformers would take over the world’: Little-known AI startup bet on ASICs — and claims it can trounce Nvidia’s flagship GPU, the B200, by almost 10 times

Back in 2022, before ChatGPT totally revolutionized the world of artificial intelligence, Etched decided to invest heavily in transformers.  With this focus, the startup has developed Sohu, a specialized ASIC chip designed exclusively for transformer models, the architecture powering the likes of ChatGPT, Sora, and Gemini. Sohu is a one-trick…

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