Technology News for Tuesday 8th October 2024

1. iPhone 16 Pro review: Apple levels up its smaller 'pro' phone

Apple has upgraded the iPhone 16 Pro by adding the 5x zoom camera from the big Pro Max line, making size its main differentiator and turning the smaller “pro” into an instant candidate for the best small smartphone going.

2. Welcome to cuffing season: why we seek to settle down with a partner for winter

The company of others would have provided warmth, and possibly someone to help protect them. Cuffing behaviour might also be explained, at least for men, by a variation in testosterone levels. These tend to ...

3. Maximize Your Amazon Prime Membership with These 16 Tips

Love shopping at Whole Foods? As an Amazon Prime member, you can get exclusive deals year round. Amazon/Whole Foods. Amazon has ...

4. Amazon Prime Day Is Here—Our Deals Editors Found The 70 Best Markdowns Based On Price Research

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days (you may know it as October Prime Day 2024) officially started this morning. Now through the end of the day tomorrow, you can shop hundreds of thousand of Black Friday-level discounts on both gift-worthy items and everyday ...

5. Luftgekühlt 10 puts Turbo anniversary in the spotlight

The tenth staging of the world-leading air-cooled Porsche event celebrates 50 years of the 911 Turbo at Universal Studios in Hollywood. In the 50th anniversary year of the 911 Turbo, Luftgekühlt returned to Los Angeles at the weekend to host a special ...

6. Adobe to offer free app to help with labeling AI-generated content

Since 2019, Adobe and other technology companies have been working on what the firms call "Content Credentials," a sort of digital stamp for photos and videos around the web to denote how they were created.

7. Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping

Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity, allows artists to signal that ...

8. Oilstainlab HF-11 Is a $2.35 Million Hypercar Made by and for Maniacs

In 2019, brothers Nikita and Iliya Bridan formed Oilstainlab with the goal of creating a unique supercar. The HF-11 will be the company's first foray into production cars. A total of 25 cars are planned, each priced at $2,350,000 (although you can save ...

9. We're Tracking the Best October Prime Day 2024 Deals Live

Amazon Prime Day is back, again. And so is the WIRED Reviews team's liveblog. As with Amazon's other big sale events, plus good old-fashioned Black Friday, our team is tracking the best Prime Day deals live to bring you a selection of products our ...

10. Zillow Group acquires AI company offering virtual staging

Zillow Group has acquired Virtual Staging AI (VSAI), a company whose technology helps home sellers, agents and photographers create digitally staged listing images without the need for physical furniture and decor. The acquisition closed Oct. 7, 2024, and ...

11. Microsoft Releases October 2024 Security Updates

Microsoft released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the ...

12. Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering AI Research by 2 Scientists

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries that helped computers learn more in the way the human brain does, providing the building blocks for developments in artificial intelligence.

13. Do At-Home Red Light Masks Really Work?

As an anti-aging treatment, low-level light therapy with red and infrared wavelengths can improve how skin cells work, explains Dr. Heather Rogers, a dermatologist at Modern Dermatology in Seattle. Cells absorb ...

14. OpenAI's ChatGPT 4.0 Canvas explained: This new feature will change how you use AI chatbots

OpenAI has launched a new tool called Canvas powered by GPT 4o that changes how users interact with AI chatbots. Canvas is designed to make working with AI simpler and more productive by giving you a dedicated space to create, edit, and manage documents ...

15. Blue Origin Scrubs New Shepard Launch

After an initial 3-hr. delay and three countdown holds, Blue Origin scrubbed plans for an Oct. 7 uncrewed first suborbital launch of its second human-rated New Shepard rocket with its previously unflown RSS Karman Line crew capsule from the company's ...