Technology News for Wednesday 5th February 2025

1. Minnesota plant nursery had their hydrangeas on the red carpet at Sunday's Grammy Awards

NEWPORT, Minn. — While many of us watching the Grammys this weekend were focused on the musicians and celebrities walking the red carpet, one Minnesota-based company was looking just behind them. "It was a really busy weekend in L.A.," Ryan McEnaney, ...

2. Honda Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Iconic Gold Wing

February 4, 2025 — Markham, ON. Original 1975 model widely credited with inventing the touring category; For 2025, Gold Wing platform receives commemorative styling cues.

3. OnePlus 13 review: the rapid Android with a gorgeous fabric back

Screen: 6.82in, 120Hz QHD+ OLED (510ppi) · Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite · RAM: 12 or 16GB · Storage: 256 or 512GB · Operating system: OxygenOS 15 (Android 15) · Camera: 50M + 50MP ultrawide + 50MP 3x; 32MP selfie · Connectivity: 5G, eSIM, wifi 7, NFC, ...

4. Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Exercise Can Increase Exercise in Older Adults Living in the Community and in Long ...

Lisa Sheehy,1 Lalita Bharadwaj,2 Kelsey Annie Nissen,2 Justine L Estey2 1Bruyère Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 2Centre for Innovation and Research in Aging, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Correspondence: Lisa Sheehy, Bruyère ...

5. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: Flawless flagship's refined AI and accumulation

Samsung has shied away from wholesale hardware changes, with a new chip and an ultra-wide camera sensor that were needed. That's allows for additive improvements with AI, performance and system software.

6. Google opens its most powerful AI models to everyone, the next stage in its virtual agent push

Google on Wednesday released the Gemini 2.0 artificial intelligence model suite to everyone. The continued releases are part of a broader strategy for Google of investing heavily into "AI agents" as the AI arms race heats up among tech giants and ...

7. How GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs Are Built to Supercharge Generative AI on PCs

NVIDIA NIM microservices are prepackaged generative AI models that let developers and enthusiasts easily get started with generative AI, iterate quickly and harness the power of RTX for accelerating AI on Windows PCs. NVIDIA AI Blueprints are reference ...

8. Galaxy S25 vs Galaxy S24: Which Samsung flagship is right for you?

For the sake of keeping things equal, we are going to compare the 256GB storage options of both phones, since the Galaxy S25 is only available in 256GB and 512GB storage variants. Of course, people content with a 128GB storage phone can always buy it; the ...

9. MacBook users beware, new malware posing as Google Chrome update can steal your data

This new Malware family is named Ferret and is said to be linked to North Korean hackers and cyber criminals. The latest Ferret malware, which is basically an evolution of the existing one, poses as a Chrome ...

10. Nikon releases the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S, a fast wide-angle prime lens for the Nikon Z mount system

TOKYO - Nikon Corporation (Nikon) is pleased to announce the release of the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S, a fast wide-angle prime lens that is compatible with full-frame/FX-format mirrorless cameras for which the Nikon Z mount has been adopted.

11. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Includes My Favorite Android Feature

As AI finds its way into every one of our devices including smartphones, it seems that we're at the start of a new era in which these features may either streamline your workflow or simply overwhelm you. Samsung wants you to fall firmly into the former ...

12. Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27788 (Canary Channel)

We are also not planning to release SDKs for 27xxx series builds for the time being. What's new with Build 27788. Windows MIDI Services Public Preview. We're excited to release the first ...

13. Legendary Rock Star Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revival Lists Stunning Waterfront Estate for $9.975 Million

SARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 3638 San Remo Terrace, a masterpiece of modern luxury has entered the market for $9,975,000. This breathtaking waterfront estate, belonging to Stu ...

14. Multiple Vulnerabilities in Android Products

The vulnerabilities are: CVE-2024-53104: This vulnerability affects the Linux kernel's USB Video Class (UVC) driver. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to escalate privileges ...

15. Apple launches 'Apple Invites' app for easy event planning and album sharing

Apple Invites pulls together a range of features from across Apple's app ecosystem and its AI features package, Apple Intelligence, in order to help users plan out the event and assist guests who need to travel to the location and keep track of the weather ...

16. Amazon announces hardware event for Feb. 26 as it races to release new Alexa

Amazon has been racing to release a new version of its voice-activated Alexa software that has more advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. It is responding to increased competition in generative AI from rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, ...

17. Google Introduces New Digital-Analog Quantum Simulation

Google Quantum AI today introduced a new hybrid digital-analog approach to quantum simulation that combines gates (digital) and analog simulation. The impressive work is being reported in Nature today in which the new approach was demonstrated on ...

18. Harnessing the Power of AI in the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

Artificial intelligence is being explored as a tool to accelerate drug discovery and combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is a major global health threat responsible for millions of deaths and projected to cost $1 trillion in healthcare by 2050.

19. Google introduces new class of cheap AI models as cost concerns intensify

The tech giant offers several versions of Gemini that vary in price and performance. It already offered a lightweight variant known as "Flash" but its new "Flash-Lite" model is even cheaper. On Wednesday, Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash to the general ...