Month: February 2025
Sonos explored creating a MagSafe speaker for iPhones
Not long before last year’s software quagmire thrust the company into controversy, Sonos tinkered with an idea that some employees believed might resonate with Gen Z customers. Engineers at Sonos prototyped a miniature speaker that could magnetically connect to the back of Apple’s recent iPhones. At least conceptually, the since-abandoned…
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Foh&Boh data leak leaves millions of CVs exposed – KFS, Taco Bell, Nordstrom applicants at risk
A hiring company has reportedly left millions of CVs in a publicly accessible AWS bucket Foh&Boh has partnerships with leading food and hospitality services The dataset is now closed, but users may still be at risk A dataset containing a staggering 5.4 million files has been discovered by researchers online,…
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Google’s Gemini Super Bowl ads push AI as a tool you can use every day
Google debuted a pair of new Super Bowl commercials that portray AI as a technology that’s as central to people’s lives as the phone or computer they access it on. But, like some of Google’s other Super Bowl ads, the company is once again attempting to make you pull out…
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Nvidia out? DeepSeek pairs with banned Chinese tech giant to deliver unbelievably low pricing on AI inference which could cause Nvidia’s house of cards to come crashing
DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models are available through Huawei’s Ascend cloud service They are powered by the Ascend 910x accelerators banned in the US, EU and UK The pricing is much lower than offered by Azure and AWS who have started trialing DeepSeek DeepSeek recently massively unsettled global markets with…
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Leica made a $329 iPhone camera grip
Made with an aluminum housing that’s finished in black (but without the iconic Leica red dot) the Lux Grip attaches to iPhones using MagSafe. It can be used with the phone vertically or horizontally, and should be compatible with models dating back to the iPhone 12. The grip wirelessly connects…
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Google Pixel 9a: latest news, rumors, and everything we’ve heard so far
The Google Pixel 9a could prove a compelling alternative to the Google Pixel 9, since this upcoming mid-ranger is likely to cost less, yet might not be much of a specs downgrade. Nothing is known for certain yet, but the Pixel 9a has been extensively rumored, pointing to a phone…
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