How to use Visual Intelligence on the iPhone
One of the Apple Intelligence features that hasn’t been delayed is Visual Intelligence, which uses your iPhone’s camera to identify and answer questions on whatever’s around you in the world.…
Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says
Elon Musk raced to build Colossus, the world’s largest supercomputer, in Memphis, Tennessee. He bragged that construction only took 122 days and expected that his biggest AI rivals would struggle…
Is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion still fun for a first-time player in 2025?
For many gamers, this week’s release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has provided a good excuse to revisit a well-remembered RPG classic from years past. For others, it’s…
Is Google’s smart tag network any good yet?
The Chipolo Pop, Pebblebee Clip, and Moto Tag are the three main trackers using Google’s network. When Google launched its long-awaited Find My Device network in April 2024, it arrived…
Propellantless Drive Satellite Anomoly
The IVO Propulsion drive that is in a satellite is now slowing the decline of its orbit. This slowing decline of the Semi Major Orbit is evidence that the propellentless…
Bionic Bay mixes floppy physics with hard sci-fi
Wandering through Bionic Bay‘s dark alien world is unsettling and awe-inspiring. There are massive structures with no clear purpose and autonomous factories filled with whirring saw blades and devastating lasers.…
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 26)
Artificial Intelligence Google’s AI Overviews Now Reach More Than 1.5 Billion People Every MonthJay Peters | The Verge “Google started to widely roll out AI Overviews last May. Despite some…
Kuxiu’s ‘world first’ solid-state power bank costs more but lasts much longer
The Kuxiu S2 magnetically attached to the MagSafe-compatible case on my iPhone 15 Pro. Solid-state batteries are the future. They’re more powerful, compact, safe, and sustainable than Lithium-ion alternatives, but…
This self-learning AI software lets robots do tasks autonomously.
the Kurzweil Library section: stories in progress image | above Pictured is the BRETT robot used in lab experiments at the Univ. of California. This robot responds to smart AI…
GPU prices are out of control again
An Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card. | Photo by Tom Warren/The Verge Every so often, Central Computers – one of the last remaining dedicated Silicon Valley computer stores – lets…