Month: December 2024

Save Space on Your Phone by Offloading and Archiving Apps

Don’t uninstall those rarely used apps. Just securely stash them in the cloud until the next time you need them, and free up space on your phone in the meantime. Source

Read More

Can the AirPods Pro 2 Really Replace Hearing Aids? We Asked a Grandmother

Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 have some added hearing-aid capabilities. How well do they work in practice? I asked my grandmother, who is in her eighties, to try them for a week. Source

Read More

Hugging Face launches an open source tool for affordable AI deployment

Hugging Face has introduced its latest offering, Hugging Face Generative AI Services (HUGS), aimed at simplifying the deployment and scaling of generative AI applications using open-source models. Built on Hugging Face technologies such as Transformers and Text Generation Inference (TGI), HUGS promises optimized performance across various hardware accelerators. For developers…

Read More

Samsung Galaxy S25 rumored features: the key tipped upgrades on the S25 line

The Samsung Galaxy S25 series has been extensively tipped and rumored at this point, so we have a good idea of what the key features of these phones will be. By ‘features’ we refer here to the major upgrades and new things relative to the Samsung Galaxy S24 series –…

Read More

ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from Samsung’s XR headset reveal to Apple’s 17 favorite App Store apps

Welcome, folks, to a week that has included some of the biggest announcements we might see before CES 2025, in what was an uncharacteristically busy few days so close to the holidays. Samsung dropped a buzzer-beating announcement to keep its promise we’d find out about its XR tech “this year,”…

Read More

Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit

Dear General Bonta: As a California company that builds Generative AI technology, Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) is deeply concerned about OpenAI’s attempt to shed the non-profit status under which it was founded in order to establish a for-profit entity. We urge you to review this proposed transaction, including the nature…

Read More