Image: Twitter/X user hanibioud Did anyone else get force-fed amoxicillin as a young kid? I can still taste the chilled pink chalkiness to this day, lingering in my mouth hours after having taken a spoonful to help kill my strep throat. That’s the core memory storming into my brain after I saw this pink Google Pixel 9 leak circulate on 9to5Google . Or is it Pepto Bismal I’m thinking of? Suggested Reading Cate Blanchett’s Chainsaw-Fueled Lockdown Hysteria Led Her to Borderlands MaXXXine Is a Pulpy Hollywood Tale That Feels Too Tame Scary Turbulence Sends Man Flying Into Overhead Bin […]
This early Prime Day deal brings the Samsung Galaxy A35 phone to a record-low price
Samsung Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner, officially starting on July 16, but early deals are already starting to trickle in. For instance, the Samsung Galaxy A35 smartphone is currently available for $350 , which is a discount of $50 and a record-low price for the mid-level handset. The A35 just became available in the US back in April, so the discount comes as a nice surprise. This is a capable smartphone with a 6.6-inch Super AMOLED display that boasts a variable refresh rate up to 120Hz, just like its cousin the Galaxy A55 . This phone […]
Resident Evil 7 Debuts on iPhone 15 Pro, iPad, and Mac
As part of its effort to embrace Apple’s latest chips, Capcom today released Resident Evil 7 biohazard for iPhone 15 Pro , iPhone 15 Pro Max, and all iPads and Macs with M-series Apple silicon chips. [ App Store ] The game runs natively on Apple silicon with support for cross-progression and universal purchase, letting Apple users play the game across iPhone , iPad , and Mac with a single purchase and transfer their saved games between devices. Capcom notes that the iPhone and iPad version of Resident Evil 7 biohazard includes enhanced controls with a new Auto Fire […]
A new Resident Evil game is in the works from the director of Resident Evil 7
Capcom It’s been a hot minute since we’ve had a brand new Resident Evil game. Then again, it’s hard to blame Capcom for that — Resident Evil: Village created such a high bar for future sequels to limbo under or jump over, depending on which hypothetical bar-based sport you’re playing in your head. Capcom has finally confirmed that Resident Evil 9 is on the way and they’ve tapped a veteran director to oversee the tenth zombie adventure shooter. IGN reported that Capcom confirmed the news of the sequel during its Next Summer 2024 stream. Director Koshi Nakanishi will be […]
Anthropic’s newest Claude chatbot beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o in some benchmarks
Anthropic Anthropic rolled out its newest AI language model on Thursday, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The updated chatbot outperforms the company’s previous top-tier model, Claude 3 Opus, while working at twice the speed. Claude users (including those on free accounts) can check it out beginning today. Sonnet, which tends to be Anthropic’s most balanced model, is the first release in the Claude 3.5 family. The company says Claude 3.5 Haiku (the fastest in each generation) and Claude 3.5 Opus (the most powerful) will arrive later this year. (Those models will stay on version 3 in the meantime.) The Sonnet update […]
Perplexity Is Reportedly Letting Its AI Break a Basic Rule of the Internet
Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (Getty Images) Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don’t want to be accessed by bots, according to a report from developer Robb Knight this week that was confirmed by Wired . Suggested Reading Apple Bursts Onto the AI Stage with Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Multimodal Siri OpenAI Will Ditch ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-Like […]
The Webb Telescope’s dazzling nebula image supports a long-held theory
NASA The image of the Serpens Nebula you see above, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), not only looks mesmerizing but also captures a never-before-seen phenomenon. The aligned, elongated “protostellar outflows” visible in the top left support a longstanding theory. As suspected, the jets shoot out in alignment from the swirling disks of surrounding material, showing evidence that clusters of forming stars spin in the same direction. NASA says the bright and clumpy streaks in the image’s upper-left area, which somewhat resemble JJ Abrams-style lens flare, represent shockwaves caused by outward-shooting jets that emerge when the interstellar […]
Apple Confirms iPhone’s AI Weakness
Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers a keynote address (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Tim Cook and his team introduced its AI suite to the world at Apple’s recent Worldwide Developer Conference, yet there was a sting in the tail. Apple Intelligence would not be available on the vast majority of existing iPhones. The reasoning behind the decision would be confirmed in the traditional “Talk Show Live From WWDC” hosted by John Gruber. He raised the question of Apple restricting its Apple Intelligence AI software to the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max with his guests from Apple’s management […]
Apple needs to make the iPhone cool again. Tomorrow is its chance
The Apple iPhone 15 series displayed for sale at The Grove Apple retail store in Los Angeles, California. Wall Street is hoping the iPhone 16 will come with major AI updates. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images New York CNN — Apple hasn’t given users a significant reason to buy an upgraded iPhone for four years, since it rolled out 5G connectivity with the iPhone 12 — a worrying trend for the tech giant’s core business. That could change this week. The iPhone brought in more than half of the company’s total revenue last year, but sales growth has lagged as […]
An all-digital Xbox Series X is coming this holiday season
Microsoft Toward the end of the Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft unveiled a refreshed console lineup . For the first time, the company will offer an Xbox Series X with no disc drive in a robot white colorway. It comes with 1TB of storage and will cost $450. The MSRP of the original Series X is $500, but it often goes on sale (Microsoft itself is currently selling the console for $450). A Xbox Series X without a disc drive had long been expected . A leak in March suggested that an all-digital robot white model was in the works. […]