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February 21, 2024
NEWS

CNET

Apple’s New Sports App Focuses on Scores, Stats and Speed

On Wednesday the company announced its latest app, dubbed Apple Sports, and it has a fairly straightforward mission: Be the fastest, easiest way to get the latest scores and stats about the teams and players you care about.

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Forbes

What The Apple Vision Pro Means For Traditional Entertainment

When the iPhone launched in 2007, whether we knew it then or not, the world cha. nged. With the 2024 launch of the Apple Vision Pro (AVP), the world has changed again. The Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s answer to the question of VR-headset-or-AR-glasses.

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Forbes

Google’s Latest AI Language Models Are Open Weight, Not Open Source

Dubbed Gemma, the models are available for commercial use and redistribution. That’s a bit of a departure for the tech giant, which has been criticized for its closed-access approach to AI. Richard Nieva. Forbes Staff.

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CNET

OnePlus Watch 2 Gets Early Tease Ahead of MWC 2024 Reveal

The smartwatch will be the Chinese company’s first after a three-year hiatus, and OnePlus is claiming that its battery should last 100 hours in “Smart Mode.” OnePlus …

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The New York Times

Jeff Bezos’s Big Rocket Moves Into View and Closer to Launch

There’s an easy knock against the space dreams of Jeff Bezos and his rocket company, Blue Origin: In its 24th year of existence, the company has yet to launch a single thing to orbit. Blue Origin’s accomplishments to date are modest — a small vehicle …

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WIRED

Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption

Apple is launching its first post-quantum protections, one of the biggest deployments of the future-resistant encryption technology to date. Billions of medical records, financial transactions, and messages we send to each other are protected by …

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CNBC

Apple releases free new sports app for iPhone

The app, called Apple Sports, does one thing well: show sports scores from all the major teams and leagues. Users in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. can download it on Wednesday, the first day of the Major League Soccer season.

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NPR

First there were AI chatbots. Now AI assistants can order Ubers and book vacations

ChatGPT can give you travel ideas, but it won’t book your flight to Cancún. Now, artificial intelligence is here to help us scratch items off our to-do lists. A slate of tech startups are developing products that use AI to complete real-world tasks.

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CBS News

“Mario vs. Donkey Kong” review: It’s one quirky Nintendo Switch game

Within moments, I knew I was in for countless hours of fun, but plenty of challenges as well. As much as this is a side-scrolling adventure, I had to think creatively to solve puzzles while working against a clock.

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IGN

Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Suggests New Call of Duty Games Will Hit Game Pass Day One

Speaking to Game File, Spencer said Microsoft plans for all Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax (Bethesda, MachineGames, iD Software, etc), and Xbox Game Studios games to launch on Game Pass “day one”. That means the games launch straight into the Xbox …

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