Month: February 2025
Microsoft wants to hand off much of its Army HoloLens program to Palmer Luckey’s Anduril
Microsoft’s six-year-old program to make HoloLens headsets for the US Army could be getting some extra help. If the Department of Defense approves the deal, the company will expand its existing partnership with Anduril Industries, Palmer Luckey’s defense startup, for the next stages of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)…
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Sony’s next flagship wireless headphones just edged closer to launch – here’s when they might land
Sony looks set to launch new headphones (likely the Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones) according to two recent product filings with the US’ FCC and Singapore’s IMDA. While the device isn’t called the XM6 explicitly in either filing – instead, both filings label it the equally easy-to-remember YY2984 – the device looks…
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Samsung HBM roadmap shows Google could become Nvidia’s fiercest competitor in AI by 2026, but I wonder what’s happening to Microsoft
Nvidia stays king of AI chips, buying millions of HBM from Samsung in 2026 Google’s TPU push makes it Nvidia’s closest rival for HBM Amazon, AMD, and Microsoft fight for scraps while Intel fades into obscurity High-bandwidth memory is essential for AI and cloud computing, offering high-speed data transfer and…
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Framework will reveal new gadgets on February 25th — can you decipher its glyphs?
What could that mean? Well, the modular repairable gadget company did raise $18 million last April to expand beyond the laptop, but it’s not at all clear that’s what we’ll see, and a spokesperson wouldn’t comment when I asked. Instead, the company’s choosing to tease us with some pictograms! Look:…
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Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch
On Tuesday, Shopify shut down the Yeezy store run by Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) after it listed shirts with swastikas for sale. Ye advertised the site in a commercial shown during the Super Bowl on Sunday. It previously sold things like sneakers and t-shirts, but on Monday, the…
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Microsoft will now pay you even more to find security bugs in Copilot
Microsoft’s bug bounty is increasing its moderate flaw reward Bug bounties allow firms and researchers to create a safer digital environment Other firms like Google also run similar programs, so get hunting Microsoft has announced it is ‘enhancing security and incentivizing innovation’ by updating its Copilot (AI) bug bounty program…
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