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Spatial Audio in CarPlay Reaches the Volvo EX90, With a 25-Speaker Catch

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Portable Audio / Video, Transportation,

The car is where a lot of people still listen to music on purpose. Alone, on a highway, with nobody interrupting and nothing else competing for the speakers, you hear the bass line in a way you never do at your desk. It's the closest thing most of us have to a listening room, and audio…

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Chip Tariffs Could Reach Laptops and Game Consoles

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: PC / Laptop, Rumors, Video Games,

Taxing a chip and taxing the laptop that chip lives inside are two very different policies. One duty falls on a component. The other falls on the whole machine, and the customs value of a machine is a lot bigger than the customs value of the silicon in it. On August 27, Politico reported that the…

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The Galaxy S26 FE Costs $50 More, and Only the Chip Really Changed

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Features,

The Fan Edition pitch has never been complicated. Samsung takes a flagship, shaves off the parts most people won't miss, and sells it for a few hundred dollars less. The Galaxy S26 FE, official as of August 27, keeps that pitch intact. It also raises the entry fee to $699.99, up $50 from where…

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Meta Closes the Ray-Ban Glasses Trick for Hiding the Recording Light

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Wearables, Editorial,

The white light on the front of a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses is the only thing standing between you and a stranger filming you. That's the whole design. There's no shutter sound, no lens barrel, no obvious gesture. A small LED comes on, and you're supposed to notice it and act…

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Anthropic said no to the Pentagon. A judge just ruled the punishment illegal.

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,

Turning down government work is not supposed to get you branded a national security threat. A federal judge in San Francisco spent 59 pages explaining that the Pentagon did exactly that to Anthropic, and that it broke the law doing it. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, ruling on cross-motions for…

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Cerebras Built a Chip the Size of a Dinner Plate Because Memory Is the Wall

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Misc. Tech, Artificial Intelligence,

Most AI chips spend a lot of their time waiting. The math units sit idle while the memory system hauls in the next slab of model weights, and that waiting is a big part of why a chatbot pauses before it answers you. Cerebras's answer has been to skip the step where a wafer gets cut into…

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The Translucent Green Xbox Series X25 Is $899, and Pre-Orders Open Thursday Morning

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Video Games,

If you were a kid in 2001 and you ever saw one of the see-through green Xbox consoles, you know why this thing exists. Microsoft confirmed the details for the Xbox Series X25 during its gamescom broadcast on Wednesday: translucent OG green shell, guts visible through the case, every unit…

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Legato Just Hid an AI Hearing Aid Inside a Normal Pair of Glasses

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Artificial Intelligence,

In a loud restaurant, somebody across the table says something, you catch about 60% of it, and you nod anyway. For a lot of the 50 million American adults with hearing loss, that's every conversation, and the fix is a device you have to admit you need. A startup called Legato is going after…

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OpenAI Built Its Own AI Chip, Jalapeño, and It’s Beating Nvidia on Power

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,

You know that pause when you ask a chatbot something and the answer sits there, one word at a time, while you stare at it? That pause is inference, and it's the most expensive thing in AI right now. OpenAI just showed off a chip built to kill it. The chip is called Jalapeño. OpenAI…

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Samsung Put a Processor Inside Your Phone’s RAM

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Misc. Tech, Artificial Intelligence,

Every time your phone runs an AI feature on-device, most of the energy goes into hauling data out of memory, over to the processor, doing a bit of math, and hauling it back. Again and again. The math is cheap. The commute kills your battery. Samsung's answer, shown at the Hot Chips conference…

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