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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google has released Gemini 2.5 Flash, a new lightweight AI model with improved reasoning. It’s the first Gemini model to offer adjustable thinking settings to balance cost, speed, and quality. It’s available now in preview via the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI. It’s also available in the Gemini app. Just when you thought you’d got your head around all the Gemini models, Google goes and adds another one to the list. The company has announced that G
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Apple is working on two new versions of the Vision Pro headset, according to a report: one that's lighter and more affordable than the original, and another designed to tether with Macs. Despite low demand for its current AR/VR headset, Apple remains focused on creating versions of the device with broader mainstream appeal, Bloomberg reported this week. The new lower-cost Vision Pro being developed would likely have a less powerful chip and scaled-back features, bringing the price down signific
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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 6 Classic masterfully bridges the gap between traditional watchmaking and cutting-edge technology. With its rotating bezel, premium build quality, and comprehensive health tracking capabilities, it stands as one of the most sophisticated Android smartwatches available. For those seeking both classic style and modern functionality, this watch delivers an uncompromising blend of form and function. Amazon has slashed the price of the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic from $400 to just
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Credit: United Launch Alliance Pushed by trackmobile railcar movers, the Atlas V rocket rolled to the launch pad last week with a full load of 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper Internet megaconstellation. Last week, the first operational satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband network were minutes from launch at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. These spacecraft, buttoned up on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, are the first of more than 3,200 mass-produced sa
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is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. EcoFlow just announced improved versions of its Glacier refrigerator-freezer combo and Wave air conditioner-heater combo, two battery-powered off-grid appliances that can be recharged with the sun. The Wave 3 is more powerful than its predecessor, which means it can cool and heat larger spaces than the Wave 2 I reviewed last summer. Bu
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AYANEO Pocket Micro Classic The AYANEO Pocket Micro Classic is the perfect handheld for 4x upscaled GBA, with enough power for demanding shaders. The high price tag means it's only really for dedicated collectors, but this is the best a modern Game Boy Micro could be. While the SNES was the home console that best encapsulates my childhood, the Game Boy Advance was the handheld that really kicked off my gaming addiction. It was revolutionary for teenage me, and I ended up with two standard versi
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Retroid TL;DR Retroid has begun shipping the Pocket Classic handheld after months of preorder anticipation. Retroid has announced that US orders in Teal, Kiwi, and Berry colors will face indefinite delays due to the upcoming cessation of shipments from China. Affected US buyers have been urged to change their orders as soon as possible. After months of teasers, previews, and preorder buzz, the Retroid Pocket Classic is finally making its way into customers’ hands. However, some US buyers ris
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Axios Jason Redmond/TED TL;DR Google recently demoed prototype Android XR smart glasses during a TED Talk. The video of that demo is out now, showing the glasses in action. These glasses have features like live translation, real-time object recognition, navigation, and more. The next hot product from the tech world may be smart glasses. Meta has already had success with its Ray-Ban collaboration, and Apple and Samsung are hot on its heels with their own projects. Google recently demoed proto
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HP Inc. has agreed to pay a $4 million settlement to customers after being accused of “false advertising” of computers and peripherals on its website. Earlier this month, Judge P. Casey Pitts for the US District Court of the San Jose Division of the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval [PDF] of a settlement agreement regarding a class-action complaint first filed against HP on October 13, 2021. The complaint accused HP's website of showing "misleading" original pricing f
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Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Just weeks after unveiling Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is on to its next top-performing model. On Thursday, the company released an "early version" of Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview in the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI. The model has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025. It can take text, images, video, and audio prompts, and has a one-million-token context window. Also: Gemini Pro 2.5 is a stunningly capable coding assistant - and a big threat to ChatGPT Google says
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Our Gemini 2.5 models are thinking models, capable of reasoning through their thoughts before responding. Instead of immediately generating an output, the model can perform a "thinking" process to better understand the prompt, break down complex tasks, and plan a response. On complex tasks that require multiple steps of reasoning (like solving math problems or analyzing research questions), the thinking process allows the model to arrive at more accurate and comprehensive answers. In fact, Gemin
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Google's Gemini AI may have had a slow start, but it has been anything but in 2025. Barely a week goes by that another model doesn't arrive in the Gemini app or developer tools like AI Studio, and there's a major release coming to the app today. Google has announced that its faster, more efficient Gemini 2.5 Flash model is rolling out widely in preview. At the same time, developers can begin building with 2.5 Flash using the company's newly announced API pricing, which Google says is much lower
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Looking Glass unveiled its Looking Glass 27-inch holographic light field display with 5K 3D graphics. The 27-inch is the company’s most powerful 3D display to date and it is optimized for delivering immersive 3D experiences to groups simultaneously, all without headsets, glasses, or special gear. It can be powered directly off an iPad, providing a smaller footprint and a lower cost of operation to businesses needing better ways to entertain audiences or communicate ideas and concepts. Pre-orde
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When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classes’ waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before. “Teachers get excited when there’s a lot of interest in their class. I felt like, ‘Great, I’m going to have a whole bunch of students who are invested and learning,’’ Smith said. “But it quickly became clear that was not the case.” B
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Atlassian users are experiencing degraded performance amid an 'active incident' affecting multiple Jira products since morning hours today. Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management and Jira Product Discovery are among the impacted products. Jira is a popular project management and issue tracking software solution used by workplaces to plan, track and manage workflows, specifically among Agile software development teams. Hours-long outage, broken widgets and UI A prolonged Atlassia
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Looking to upgrade your office setup without breaking the bank? Dell’s Vostro Tower combines business-class performance with professional reliability in a package designed for modern workplaces. Featuring a 12th Gen Intel Core i3 processor, speedy DDR5 RAM, and Windows 11 Pro, this desktop delivers the power and features needed for today’s business environment at a price point that will make your accountant smile. See at Amazon Amazon has dramatically reduced the price of the Dell Vostro 3030
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is far from giving up on virtual and augmented reality headsets, a gadget category that has been rife with setbacks and risky bets that didn't pan out. As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported over the weekend, the tech giant is getting ready to launch not one, but two updated versions of its Vision Pro, a $3,499 mixed-reality headset that has seen sluggish sales and even given wearers black eyes. That's despite rumors circulating last summer that Apple had given up on a follow-u
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Larian Studios has deployed the final major update for Baldur’s Gate 3 . It's a pretty spicy one too, as the developer is adding a bunch of the community's most-requested changes. Among them is full cross-play support. So, no matter whether you're playing on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S or Mac, you can squad up with your buddies and help each other get through the huge RPG. Another welcome arrival is that of a built-in photo mode. This will be available during most parts of the game, incl
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Recap: TechTuber Necroware recently completed repairs on two Creative Sound Blaster cards from the 1990s. These repairs come at a time when dedicated sound cards are increasingly rare. Modern motherboards offer high-quality onboard audio, and many users – especially those on laptops – opt for USB-connected DACs for enhanced sound. Still, for enthusiasts like Necroware, restoring vintage hardware is as much about the journey as the result. The first project focused on a 1994 Creative Sound Blast
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Apple’s Vision Pro launched last year as a cutting-edge technological feat, yet it’s been plagued by issues like its high price and being too heavy for some. But the Vision Pro has one very big advantage in its favor that could make all the difference in the world: Tim Cook’s AR glasses goal. Cook ‘cares about nothing’ but AR glasses, per report Over the weekend, Mark Gurman shared several big updates for Apple’s Vision-related future products. Two new Vision Pro-like devices are reportedly i
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Apple is developing two new models of its Vision Pro headset, according to a report: one that's expected to be lighter and more affordable than the original, and another designed to tether with Macs. Despite sluggish demand, the company remains focused on creating versions of the AR/VR headset with broader mainstream appeal, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The lower-cost Vision Pro will likely have a less powerful chip and scaled-back features, bringing the price down significantly from the origi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 05:34:00
Apple is reportedly developing two new models of its Vision Pro headset: one that's expected to be lighter and more affordable than the original, and another designed to tether with Macs. Bloomberg reported on Monday that despite sluggish demand, the company remains focused on creating versions of the Vision Pro with broader mainstream appeal. The lower-cost Vision Pro will likely have a less powerful chip and scaled-back features, bringing the price down significantly from the original $3,500.
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The big picture: The Apple Vision Pro generated plenty of buzz, but it fell short commercially due to its astronomical price tag. Despite the lukewarm reception, Apple is reportedly doubling down on the segment with two new VR headsets in development. One of them is said to be a second-generation model aimed at addressing the two biggest issues with the current device. According to Mark Gurman's latest Power On newsletter, the Vision Pro 2 will be lighter than its predecessor. The existing head
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Image by Peter Dazeley via Getty / Futurism Treatments A high-end medical practice is offering clients the purported service of scrubbing their blood of microplastics. In an interview with Wired, Clarify Clinics CEO Yael Cohen said that her London facility's bespoke blood-filtering service — which is otherwise known as apheresis and generally used for plasma donation or other so-called therapeutic plasma exchange procedures — is so comfortable that some patients doze off during it. "Once it’s
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Get your hands on the latest in holographic tech — or if you want to be pedantic about it, volumetric displays. Using a clever system of elastic bands and rapidly projecting images, a team of researchers in Spain have created three-dimensional virtual objects that you can physically manipulate, allowing you to directly poke and prod at them without the need of a boring controller. As detailed in a new paper that's yet to be peer-reviewed and will be presented at the CHI 2025 conference this mo
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Tim Cook really wants Apple to make true AR glasses. He “cares about nothing else”, according to an Apple engineer. That said, building true AR glasses will take a lot of time. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman though, Apple is developing “its own glasses with cameras and microphones” in the meanwhile, similar to Meta Ray-Bans. Despite this interim product, AR glasses are Tim Cook’s “top priority.” These glasses would tap heavily into Siri and Visual Intelligence, as part of Apple’s AI push
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Apple hasn’t abandoned its previously rumored plans to release a less expensive Vision Pro, according to Bloomberg . Mark Gurman reports in the Power On newsletter this weekend that the company has two new models in development: one that’s lighter and cheaper than the first generation headset, and one that would tether to a Mac. While Apple had once considered the latter setup for AR glasses , it shifted the idea over to the Vision Pro so it can “create an ultra-low-latency system for streaming
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A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles has discovered that there are microplastics in chewing gum. Both natural and synthetic gum releases microplastics into the mouth when chewed, according to a statement published in Chemistry for Life. Out of the 10 brands of chewing gum that were tested, all were found to contain microplastics. According to the statement, "[The lab] measured an average of 100 microplastics released per gram of gum, though some individual gum pieces releas
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I work best seated at my desk setup with multiple screens in front of me However, when I travel or just need to get out of the house for a bit, I can’t bring my setup with me—or at least I thought I couldn’t. Now I know what you’re thinking. Why don’t I just go with one of the best laptops instead? Well, I’ve tried and while my trusty ThinkPad hasn’t let me down yet, I still end up using it with extra peripherals and oftentimes, a portable monitor too, which kind of defeats the purpose of using
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Alaska has a lot to offer, including rugged natural beauty, national parks, stunning glaciers and fresh seafood. However, the offerings are limited when it comes to internet options available to the state's 730,000 residents. Whether it's fiber, fixed wireless, DSL or satellite, you'll have to make some compromises when picking an internet service provider in Alaska. According to our CNET experts, GCI is the top pick for most in the state -- if it's available in your neighborhood. What is the b
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