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Your hand reaches for the switch on the side of the phone. Nothing there. For anyone using an iPhone model without a Ring/Silent switch or Action button, that moment of muscle memory failure is real. The fix lives inside Control Center.

AI glasses have been growing in popularity for a few years now, and while they offer new possibilities, like an always-available AI assistant or camera, one often-overlooked feature is the open-ear speakers. 

International politics today feels like a collective sleepwalk into the abyss. Three trends are particularly alarming. Artificial intelligence is globalising and turbocharging old and new threats. Meanwhile, no state is strong enough to impose order. And, as in earlier periods of global crisis, geopolitical blocs are hardening, with international cooperation increasingly portrayed as weakness. Alas,…

There has been an explosion of AI-powered products released over the past four years, with most built on top of leading foundation models. Startups, enterprise software vendors, and even large incumbents route their core intelligence through APIs from the leading AI labs, and a growing but still narrow set of open-weight alternatives.

A YouTube comedian has used an AI avatar to represent him in a job interview for an organization that uses AI avatars to conduct interviews. The results, shared online by YouTuber Graham Dot Zip, demonstrates the apparent weaknesses of the approach, while also being pretty amusing.

When implementing an EEG machine-learning pipeline, there are many samples obtained from a small number of subjects. One recording can be divided into multiple windows, which then can be randomly split into train and test splits. This produces a sample size that might seem very big. Yet, if the same subject’s windows are present in…

Zach Yadegari has enjoyed an immense amount of success for someone who only recently graduated from high school. Founder of the AI-fueled calorie tracking app Cal AI, Yadegari is only 19, but his company has rocketed to viral fame over the past two years. At TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday, Yadegari shared details of that surprising…

Being a responsible consumer is just so attractive these days, and the good news for anyone looking to take on that mantle is that we’ve got some great hardware options that make it easier than ever. Companies like Fairphone have been creating devices designed not to break and be replaced, but to support easy repairs,…

As the world’s billionaires anxiously plot datacenters to run trillions of lines of AI-generated slop code, one software engineer has zagged in a completely different direction: building an ecosystem for writing and running small apps that run on desktop computers, like it was 1992 all over again.  

Many artificial intelligence (AI) stocks are trading at some lofty premiums, with many investors and analysts believing that a bubble has formed. This can happen with new technologies. Expectations become inflated, and so too do stock valuations. Year to date, the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF(NYSEMKT:XLK) has risen by 36%, and is up…