Apple Intelligence Is Gambling on Privacy as a Killer Feature

As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote concluded on Monday, market watchers couldn’t help but notice that the company’s stock price was down, perhaps a reaction to Apple’s relatively low-key approach to incorporating AI compared to most of its competitors. Still, Apple Intelligence-based features and upgrades were plentiful, and while some are powered using the company’s privacy and…

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The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams

DURING a recent summit in Paris, J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, declared that the world’s most powerful artificial-intelligence (AI) systems would be developed in America with “American-designed and manufactured chips”. That is a lofty ambition, for although America leads the world when it comes to designing AI chips, it long ago ceded its position as the…

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What are the heat exhaustion and heatstroke symptoms?

Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images During hot weather, it can be easy to overheat. Although heat exhaustion is not usually serious – as long as you can cool yourself down – heatstroke is a medical emergency which requires immediate treatment. What is the difference between heat exhaustion and heatstroke? Heat exhaustion happens when…

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What is HDR, anyway?

It’s not you. HDR confuses tons of people. Last year we announced HDR or “High Dynamic Range” photography was coming to our popular photography app, Halide. While most customers celebrated, some were confused, and others showed downright concern. That’s because HDR can mean two different, but related, things. The first HDR is the “HDR mode”…

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Iran hit back. But can it deter Israel?

As Israel prepares more waves of attacks on Iran that Donald Trump warned would be “even more brutal”, the Islamic Republic’s leaders have vowed to retaliate. Major General Mohammad Pakpour, Iran’s commander of the Revolutionary Guards, who took office on Friday hours after the assassination of his predecessor, vowed to “open the doors of hell”….

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Rock record illuminates oxygen history

Several key moments in Earth’s history help us humans answer the question, “How did we get here?” These moments also shed light on the question, “Where are we going”? — offering scientists deeper insight into how organisms adapt to physical and chemical changes in their environment. Among them is an extended evolutionary occurrence over 2…

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