Tim Cook teases an announcement of “the newest member of the family” on February 19; Mark Gurman reported Apple would update the iPhone SE
Is It The iPhone SE 4? John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple's Tim Cook Teases February 19th Event on X Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider : Tim Cook teases Feb. 19 launch of what is probably the new iPhone S...
Sonos lays off ~200 employees, or 12% of its staff, as it reorganizes to make its product teams “flatter, smaller, and more focused”, weeks after losing its CEO
what does the future hold for the smart speaker firm? Ankita Chakravarti / Moneycontrol : Sonos lays off 200 employees to streamline operations Omar Sohail / Wccftech : Sonos Trims 12 Percent Of Its W...
Robotics startup Figure exits its February 2024 OpenAI deal, which aimed to develop AI models for robots, to focus on in-house AI after a “major breakthrough”
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Google's X spins out Heritable Agriculture, which aims to use AI to improve crop yield, as the incubator aggressively spins off companies under CEO Astro Teller
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Robotics company Symbotic agrees to take control of Walmart's automation business for $200M in cash and up to $350M in “additional contingent consideration”
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Hands-on with Plaud's NotePin: uses ChatGPT to transcribe conversations, can discern multiple people speaking in 59 languages, good haptics, and more
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The FDA approves the Hearing Aid Feature in Apple's AirPods Pro 2, calling it the “first over-the-counter hearing aid software device”
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Google's DeepMind Robotics team shows a table tennis robot that it says is a “solidly amateur human-level player” when pitted against a human
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Adobe adds generative AI tools to Lightroom, including Firefly-powered Generative Remove to let users “paint” over unwanted objects, available in early access
Generative Remove Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom Sarah Fielding / Engadget : Adobe Lightroom gets its own AI eraser tool John Gruber / Darin...
Researchers say they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning, a breakthrough in understanding cetacean communication
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