The FDA has approved sleep apnea detection on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Watch Ultra 2. The green light comes four days ahead of the Series 10’s September 20 release date. The feature, announced at last week’s iPhone 16 event, will arrive as part of the imminent Read more…
In 2015 Amazon purchased chip designer Annapurna Labs and proceeded to design CPUs, AI accelerators, servers, and data centers as a vertically-integrated operation. The article argues that while AMD, Nvidia, and other big-name processor companies may also want to control the full stack (purchasing server, software, and interconnect companies) — Read more…
For 75 years Cosm built planetariums and then a few years ago realized this technology could take you from the night sky to anywhere under the sun. So now Los Angeles and Dallas have massive 9,600-square-foot, 8K-resolution screens that one reviewer for SFGate calls “an absolute game-changer” for sports fans. Read more…
23andMe has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 6.4 million customers in 2023. The proposed class action settlement (PDF), filed Thursday in a San Francisco federal court and awaiting judicial approval, includes cash payments for affected customers, Read more…
Dell and HP executives have acknowledged a delay in the anticipated commercial PC refresh cycle. Michael Dell, speaking at the Citi 2024 Global TMT conference, stated that the refresh cycle “has been delayed for sure.” Without offering any reasons for postponement — and not being pressed for one by the Read more…
OpenAI’s latest models have “meaningfully” increased the risk that AI will be misused to create biological weapons [non-paywalled link], the company has acknowledged. The San Francisco-based company announced its new models, known as o1, on Thursday, touting their new abilities to reason, solve hard maths problems and answer scientific research Read more…
Have you ever been in a high-stakes situation in which you needed to perform but completely bombed? You’re not alone. Experiments in monkeys reveal that ‘choking’ under pressure is linked to a drop in activity in the neurons that prepare for movement. “You see it across the board, you see Read more…