Author: Zach_Wilson
Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
Ray Wong of Inverse discovered a hidden joy today: The Apple Vision Pro power cable connects to the battery with what may well be Lightning’s final form. Using a SIM removal tool, he pushed into a small hole in the silver external battery pack of the Vision Pro next to…
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Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies
During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate. With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and replace one weight matrix with an approximate smaller one. Weights are…
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Microsoft is exploring a hands-free smart home system for Windows tech
A new Microsoft patent reveals the company is working on an autonomous smart home system for Windows devices. This “multi-device cross-experience” will be powered by artificial intelligence, according to tech news site Windows Report. It enables connected hardware to communicate with each other via “advertising” and without direct user input.…
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Panic over: AMD confirms that its Zen 5 Ryzen CPUs will launch as planned later this year
There’s been plenty of whispers about AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, including possible release delays. However, a new report asserts that the upcoming Ryzen processor will be released on schedule. According to AMD’s latest earnings call for Q4 2024, a representative confirmed that “Zen 5 is on track for the consumer…
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All the news from PlayStation’s 2024 State of Play
Sony’s last State of Play was in September 2023 and went head-to-head with a Nintendo Direct that same day. It was a short affair, lasting about 20 minutes, but expect today’s presentation to be around 40. In addition to Hideo Kojima’s and BioShock creator Ken Levine’s latest games, with less…
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Philips stops selling sleep apnea machines in US following mass recalls
Philips is halting sales of its recalled sleep apnea machines in the US after finding they were pumping foam particles into users’ airways. In its earnings report on Monday, the company says it will not sell new CPAP or BiPAP devices in the US until it meets the requirements outlined…
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