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Earlier this month, Apple unveiled M1 Chip Macs touting significant performance improvement. Last week Google released a Chrome browser for Macs powered by M1 Chip. New MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini users have to download a different Chrome version. The best part is that this version of Chrome runs faster than the […]
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Classics like Inception and The Cell are at least a decade old. Powered by WPeMatico
Scott Stein, Apple’s head of augmented and virtual reality, talks about AR’s future in an interview with CNET. He says, “AR has an enormous potential” provided its implementation is successful. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
An AI that completes quests in a text-based adventure game by talking to the characters has learned not only how to do things, but how to get others to do things. The system is a step toward machines that can use language as a way to achieve their goals. Pointless prose: Language models like GPT-3 […]
In 1993, the console maker’s big plans for virtual reality fizzled. Now a team of preservationists is using emulation to bring them back. Powered by WPeMatico
Pfizer will apply for emergency permission to distribute its covid-19 vaccine in the US and is ready to start shipping the shots within “hours” of getting a government green light, the firm said today. It is the first such application from any of the makers of covid-19 vaccines that are currently in development. If it […]
The Odyssey team today announced the release of Odyssey 1.2 that adds supports for iOS 13.5 – iOS 13.7 jailbreak. The latest version. of the tool also features improved exploit reliability for iOS 13 – iOS 13.5. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
New Zealand company Rocket Lab has hit a key milestone with the successful launch and recovery of its flagship Electron rocket. The mission, the firm’s 16th so far, included a soft parachute landing of the first stage booster into the ocean for the first time. The mission: Electron was launched around 1:46 a.m. local time […]
In the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, several competing projects launched around a deceptively simple concept: your phone could alert you if you’d crossed paths with someone who later tested positive. One system for these exposure notifications quickly caught on. It was designed, in an improbable act of cooperation, by Apple and Google, which […]