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Rumor Replay: AirPods Pro 3 launch, new iPhone 17 Pro feature, and more

This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: AirPods Pro 3 launch timing and AirPods 4-inspired changes, a new iPhone 17 Pro feature rumor, Camera Control 2.0, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. AirPods Pro 3 launch seems imminent After a lot of uncertainty around AirPods Pro 3 launch timing, and a growing likelihood that we may have to wait until 2026, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg

Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

Microsoft is expanding its AI footprint with the release of two new models that its teams trained completely in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is the tech major's first natural speech generation model, while MAI-1-preview is text-based and is the company's first foundation model trained end-to-end. MAI-Voice-1 is currently being used in the Copilot Daily and Podcast features. Microsoft has made MAI-1-preview available for public tests on LMArena, and will begin previewing it in select Copilot situations in

I left my home with a robot vacuum on auto-pilot for 10 days - here are the results

Narwal Freo Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Narwal Freo Pro is now available for $500 (a $300 discount). Construction is optimized to prevent blockage and hair tangles, with a conical brush on a single floating arm and a hair-loosening side brush. The dust bag didn't last me the claimed seven weeks, and the robot's object detection leaves a lot to be desired $499.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A recent trip took me and my family out of town for 10 days. I li

GPU Prefix Sums: A nearly complete collection

GPU Prefix Sums GPUPrefixSums aims to bring state-of-the-art GPU prefix sum techniques from CUDA and make them available in portable compute shaders. In addition to this, it contributes "Decoupled Fallback," a novel fallback technique for Chained Scan with Decoupled Lookback that should allow devices without forward thread progress guarantees to perform the scan without crashing. The D3D12 implementation includes an extensive survey of GPU prefix sums, ranging from the warp to the device level;

Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue

Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang spoke to journalists during a trip to Beijing in July. Two Nvidia customers made up 39% of Nvidia's revenue in its July quarter, the company revealed in a financial filing on Wednesday, raising concerns about the concentration of the chipmaker's clientele. "Customer A" made up 23% of total revenue, and "Customer B" comprised 16% of total revenue, according to the company's second-quarter filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's highe

Google’s Pixel Care Plus includes free screen and battery repair

Google is phasing out its Preferred Care extended warranty plan for the Pixel Care Plus program. Pricing between the two is pretty similar. You’ll still pay $8 per-month, or $159 for a two-year plan on a Pixel 9. For a Pixel 10 Pro Fold, that jumps up to $339 for two years, or $18 per-month, with the optional loss and theft package for a small extra charge. The big changes here are that screen and battery repairs are free, and service fees for other accidental damage are much lower. Under the o

Proton offers a new lifeline for when the unexpected happens

TL;DR Proton has rolled out a new feature called Emergency Access. This feature allows paid users to pick five trusted contacts who can gain access to their account in case anything happens. Users can allow their trusted contacts to access their account immediately or after a custom set period of time. We all have crucial information stored in the various apps we use. For instance, you could have an important message sitting in your inbox, logins in your password manager, or financial informa

iPhone 17 vs. iPhone 17 Air, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max: New Rumored Specs Compared

While we typically wait until phones are actually released to compare them, Apple's next iPhone models are so highly anticipated that we'll make an exception. We're basing our comparisons on the most credible rumors of what's coming in the iPhone 17 series, including a potential super-thin iPhone 17 Air, to give readers an early sense of how the new series of phones may look. Last year's iPhone 16 series added a handful of upgrades over its predecessors, most notably the new Camera Control key.

Pixel 10 Pro XL vs. iPhone 16 Pro Max: Has Google closed the gap? [Video]

From jibes to full-blown homage, the Pixel 10 Pro XL owes a lot to the iPhone and, by extension, the 16 Pro Max. Just how does Apple’s best device of last year stack up against Google’s best of this year? Here’s all you need to know. Before we start comparing Apples to Googles, we must acknowledge that things can’t be like-for-like. If you’re an Android person—like us—you probably don’t care about iOS things. If you’re an iOS person, you probably don’t care about Android. That’s absolutely fine

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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

The Cast of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Is Revealed as Production Begins

Lucasfilm just announced the cast of Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Shawn Levy, which is now in production. Ryan Gosling stars, and he’ll be joined by Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams. “I feel a profound sense of excitement and honor as we begin production on Star Wars: Starfighter,” Levy said on the official Star Wars website. “From the day Kathy Kennedy called me up, inviting me to develop an original adventure in this

Honest Review of the New Tiami Mattress (2025)

It’s always an exciting day when I get to try out a new mattress brand. Tiami comes from the founder of Leesa, bringing some serious credentials—Leesa’s Sapira Chill is our favorite hybrid mattress. Will Tiami be able to live up to its famous sibling? I’m a certified sleep science coach with more than five and a half years of mattress testing experience, and here are my thoughts after a week of sleeping on this bed. What Makes Tiami Tick Photograph: Julia Forbes Tiami’s raison d'être is its s

You’re wrong about the Pixel 10 Pro

When Google finally revealed the Pixel 10 series last week, I was there. I got to attend a secret preview of the phones a week before the launch, and I was in the live audience for the cringeworthy Jimmy Fallon event that showed the phones to the public for the first time. It was an incredibly exciting time for me, because I’m a huge fan of what Google is trying to do with its Pixel line. But you know who wasn’t so excited about it? A lot of you. Almost immediately after the reveal, the intern

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Deals: 1TB M4 MacBook Air, AirPods 4 now even lower, iPhone 15 Pro Max $725 off, MagSafe stands, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is starting off with our growing collection of Apple gear Labor Day deals you’ll find organized for you right here. We are also highlighting a 1TB M4 MacBook Air configuration with 24GB of RAM at $200 off the list ($600 under the MSRP on the comparable MacBook Pro), price drops on all of Apple’s most affordable current-gen iPad models starting from $299, and an even lower price on AirPods 4 ANC at $139. The 1TB iPhone 15 Pro Max has now dropped even lower at over $72

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These $250 XR glasses turned my Nintendo Switch into a 200-inch full-screen experience

RayNeo Air 3s Pro AR glasses ZDNET's key takeaways The RayNeo Air 3s Pro is available for $249 for a launch special, with a regular price of $299. These XR glasses have advanced micro-OLED screens, 20 levels of brightness, and a 201-inch screen visual experience. There is no electrochromic dimming capability, and productivity support is limited to native MacOS and Windows. View now at Amazon As a train commuter and regular business traveler, XR glasses have become one of my most essential tra

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Apple's iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event is on September 9 — Here's what we expect

We're now less than two weeks away from the Apple iPhone 17 event. Themed "Awe dropping" this year, the event — confirmed after Apple sent "save the date" invitations to the media on August 26 — will be livestreamed on YouTube September 9 at 1PM ET from Cupertino. And Engadget staff will be there, reporting and liveblogging from Apple Park to give their hands-on impressions. This year is shaking up to be a departure from recent September product rollouts, with the strong possibility of an all-ne

How Gemini's 'on-premise' upgrade could help your enterprise and advance sovereign AI

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud is now available to customers. The approach brings advanced models into enterprise data centers. Gemini on GDC could support new capabilities for on-premise gen AI. There are several obstacles to the successful deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise, including managing staff who are unsure how to use the technology, and c

My gaming buddy

One of the most devastating parts of grief is how it can strike out of nowhere. There you are, doing a perfectly normal, everyday thing, and then that perfectly normal, everyday thing reminds you of something or someone who is no longer there. And when that presence you lost was intimately connected with your life, well, those moments happen frequently and unexpectedly. I recently had to say goodbye to an old friend named Millie, an 18-year-old shih tzu who was a constant and steady companion f

Early blogging service Typepad is shutting down for good

Typepad, a blogging service that launched in the same year as WordPress, has announced that it's shutting down on September 30. "We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad," its team said in a post. Several major publications used it as a backend for their websites in its early years, and it even released an app in 2008, but it soon fell behind WordPress in popularity. The service stopped accepting new signups sometime in 2020 but continued supporting its old customers. One user

Apple Labor Day sales include the MacBook Air M4 for a record-low price

Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the biggest discount. The 16GB RAM/256GB SSD laptop is down to $799 from $999, which is the lowest price we've seen. You can upgrade to 512GB SSD for $999, down from $1,199, another all-time low price, or 24GB of RAM a

The sisters "paradox" – counter-intuitive probability

It seems simple, but it isn't There are a couple of famous counter-intuitive problems in probability theory and the sisters "paradox" is one of them. I'll tell you the problem, let you guess the solution, and then give you some of the background. Here's the problem: a family has two children. You're told that at least one of them is a girl. What's the probability both are girls? (International Film Service / American Releasing Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Assume that the pr

GPUPrefixSums – state of the art GPU prefix sum algorithms

GPU Prefix Sums GPUPrefixSums aims to bring state-of-the-art GPU prefix sum techniques from CUDA and make them available in portable compute shaders. In addition to this, it contributes "Decoupled Fallback," a novel fallback technique for Chained Scan with Decoupled Lookback that should allow devices without forward thread progress guarantees to perform the scan without crashing. The D3D12 implementation includes an extensive survey of GPU prefix sums, ranging from the warp to the device level;

Important machine learning equations

Motivation Machine learning (ML) is a powerful field driven by mathematics. Whether you’re building models, optimizing algorithms, or simply trying to understand how ML works under the hood, mastering the core equations is essential. This blog post is designed to be your go-to resource, covering the most critical and “mind-breaking” ML equations—enough to grasp most of the core math behind ML. Each section includes theoretical insights, the equations themselves, and practical implementations in

Standalone AI Devices Are Back, Baby. The Note-Taking Plaud Note 3 Proves It

There was a moment around 18 months ago when it felt like AI had unlocked an entirely new consumer technology category. The wearable Humane Pin and handheld Rabbit R1 were small, standalone devices that promised to be your AI personal assistants and threatened to be smartphone killers. But almost as soon as the hype around them peaked, it died down again. The devices that hit the market during that initial wave of excitement overpromised and underdelivered, and today we remain just as reliant o

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The Pixel 10 fixes my biggest hardware pet peeve, but many of you won’t see it

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Much ink has been spilled around the Pixel 10’s SIM situation. In the US, the three main phones — Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL — ship without a physical SIM slot. You can use two eSIMs at the same time, and some of us think that’s fine. While I do love my eSIMs, I’m not ready to adopt them full time just yet, so you can’t imagine my relief when we learned that the rest of the world gets to keep the slot. My biggest relief, though, came when I discovered wh

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

AMD's X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips' extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra headaches. Not long after they were released earlier this year, some early adopters started having problems with their CPUs, ranging from failure to boot to actual physical scorching and burnout—the problems were particularly common for users of the 9800X3D processor in A

Claude Code Checkpoints

🔍 Automatic Change Detection Continuously monitors your entire project for file changes. No setup required - just select your project folder and start coding. 💾 One-Click Checkpoints Create instant snapshots of your project state before making risky changes. Each checkpoint captures all files and their contents. 📊 Visual Diff Viewer See exactly what changed between checkpoints with our built-in diff viewer. Track additions, modifications, and deletions at a glance. ⏰ Time Travel for Code Inst

Pixel 10 Pro XL vs. Galaxy S25 Ultra: Android Camera Battle

Smartphone cameras carry a lot of responsibility. They need to automatically make great images in any situation at a moment's notice. They're limited by the physics of small lenses, small sensors and less-than-ideal ergonomics. The photos they create need to be ready to share immediately, with no expectation that the images will be edited and refined later. Many phones hit a few of those targets, but a small number strive to be the best smartphone cameras you can pocket. The Samsung Galaxy S25

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Long-running Apple TV+ comedy to be seen by a new audience on the BBC

Apple’s longest-running original comedy series is getting new life on the BBC in the United Kingdom. The Apple Original Trying, which premiered on Apple’s streaming service in May 2020, will now be available on BBC iPlayer and set for broadcast on the BBC’s linear channels. The BBC deal was first reported by Deadline, and apparently includes the first three seasons of Trying with the first season debuting on September 8. Meanwhile, Apple TV+ is currently in development of a fifth season of the

7 rules to follow for the best home security camera footage (and places to avoid setup)

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you're a subscriber to the Nextdoor app, you've seen plenty of footage of prowling ne'er-do-wells caught in the eye of a video doorbell or home security camera. Hopefully, you don't have your own first-hand experience with suspicious characters milling around your front porch, or far worse. Also: Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills For good reason, security cameras continue to