Daily News update on – Technology


September 1, 2023
NEWS

The New York Times

Starfield’s 1000 Planets May Be One Giant Leap for Game Design

That sprawling celestial journey within Starfield, developed by Bethesda Game Studios, reveals both the tremendous potential and the monumental challenge of an open-world space adventure. Bethesda has hyped an expansive single-player campaign with 1,000 …

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Forbes

Apple iPhone 15 Release Date: New Event Page Goes Live With Cool Animation

The Apple events landing page. Apple. September 1 update below. This post was first published on August 30, 2023. Apple’s fall special event, where it …

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CNN

Super Mario Bros. Wonder puts a fresh spin on the Mario formula — and it rocks

But while all of those games are good — some are the plumber’s best — this fall’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder looks to be the game I really want: A fresh take on that classic 2D Mario platforming that many of us grew up on.

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InfoWorld

Microsoft axes Visual Studio for Mac

Microsoft is retiring its Visual Studio for Mac IDE. The company advises developers on Mac to seek alternatives such as the C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code and other extensions that enable .NET development. Citing ongoing user feedback and usage …

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PCWorld

Grab this killer Chromebook perk: A free 3 month Nvidia GeForce Now subscription

However, GeForce Now was built to give Chromebook players the experience of PC gamers: the Priority tier allows you to play up to 6 hours at a time at 1080p resolution, on PC servers running GPUs with Nvidia’s real-time raytracing functions (RTX) enabled.

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NPR

Bethesda’s ‘Starfield’ is a fabulous playable space opera with a forgettable story

In Starfield, space is no longer the final frontier. Exploration is a thing of the past. When the game begins, you’re a miner working in the Settled Systems. No one really goes on voyages of discovery anymore — that’s the romantic dream of a bygone era …

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Healio

Study finds AI voice assistants inconsistent with responses to users’ CPR questions

Although a large language model performed better than voice assistants, answers were still inconsistent. Researchers concluded bystanders should prioritize calling emergency services over using a VA. Just under one-third of artificial intelligence …

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Investor’s Business Daily

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Price Increases Warranted, Goldman Sachs Says

Rumored price increases for Apple’s (AAPL) high-end iPhone 15 smartphones will be justified by the enhanced technology they contain, investment bank Goldman Sachs said Thursday. Apple will introduce its 17th-generation iPhones at a media event on Sept.

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Nature.com

AI predicts chemicals’ smells from their structures

To explore the association between a chemical’s structure and its odour, Wiltschko and his team at Osmo designed a type of artificial intelligence (AI) system called a neural network that can assign one or more of 55 descriptive words, such as fishy or …

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Sound Guys

JBL launches retro-inspired Wi-Fi speaker line with Alexa and Google Assistant

JBL is launching a new wireless speaker line called the JBL Authentics series. · The current line consists of three speakers: the 500, 300, and 200. · The speakers will be available starting on September 15, 2023.

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