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New Apple TV+ thriller has Jessica Chastain catfishing potential terrorists, trailer here

Apple TV+ has a packed lineup of new and returning series this fall, including the Jessica Chastain-starring The Savant. Here’s the new trailer and full details. The Savant trailer reveals new Apple TV+ crime series Crime-related thrillers are a big focus for Apple TV+ in the months ahead. It starts in September with Slow Horses season 5 and the brand new series The Savant. The Savant debuts on Friday, September 26 with its first two episodes, followed by weekly releases through November 7.

Sonos headphones and speakers are up to 25 percent off for back to school

No matter how old you get, the back-to-school season will always bring a desire to shop. So, sales at this time of year are always more than welcome — especially when they're on some of our favorite devices. Such is the case with the 10 percent discount currently available on the Sonos Era 100. Our choice for midrange smart speaker is down to $179 from $199 as part of a larger sale on the Sonos website. The same price is available on Amazon, as are some more deals on Sonos products. Sonos debu

Saudi AI Firm Launches Halal Chatbot

Companies with AI chatbots love to highlight their capability as translators, but they still default to English, both in function and in the information they are trained on. With that in mind, Humain, an AI company in Saudi Arabia, has now launched an Arabic-native chatbot. The bot, called Humain Chat, runs on the Allam large language model, according to Bloomberg, which the company claims was trained on “one of the largest Arabic datasets ever assembled” and is the “world’s most advanced Arabi

Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript

Topics: #development Client-side rendering has become the dominant paradigm for building web apps. But frameworks like React can lead to major JavaScript execution bottlenecks during page load. For many web developers there’s a clear solution for this: Ship less JavaScript to the browser. Whether websites have to work without any JavaScript at all is a question almost as old as the web itself. By now, the answer is clear: No, they don’t. It’s firmly established that websites should be more tha

Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

Apple researchers have developed an adapted version of the SlowFast-LLaVA model that beats larger models at long-form video analysis and understanding. Here’s what that means. The nerdy bits Very basically, when an LLM is trained to also understand video, it learns to split videos into frames, apply computer vision to extract visual features, analyze how those features change over time, and align all of that with language so it can describe or reason about the video in the form of text. One v