Technology News for Thursday 10th October 2024

11 new stories

Oct 10th 2024

1. Apple's Dan Riccio, key executive in both Steve Jobs, Cook eras, to retire

Domain: business-standard.com | Companies: Apple

By Mark Gurman Apple Inc's Dan Riccio, who oversaw the company's push into mixed-reality headsets and previously served as its hardware engineering chief, is retiring. The veteran executive, a vice president who reports to Chief Executive Officer Tim ...

2. Infinix Zero Flip to use triple 50 MP lenses with 4K video recording and GoPro compatibility

Domain: thehindu.com

Infinix's first ever flip smartphone, Infinix Zero Flip, is going to feature dual 50 MP rear camera and a 50 MP front lens for selfies and recording 4K videos at 60 frames per second (fps). On top, both front and rear cameras will support 4K video ...

3. Apple set to release iOS 18.1 soon, with iOS 18.2 expected in December

Domain: business-standard.com | Companies: Apple

Apple will release iOS 18.1 in a few weeks, followed by iOS 18.2, anticipated to launch in December with the next wave of Apple Intelligence features for the eligible iPhones. Currently, the US-based technology giant is testing an initial set of ...

4. MediaTek unveils Dimensity 9400: New flagship chipset with 3.63 GHz CPU and enhanced AI features

Domain: businesstoday.in

Graphics processing is handled by the Immortalis-G925 GPU, which operates at 1612 MHz. It promises a 41% performance improvement over previous generations, with 40% faster ray tracing and a 44% increase in power efficiency.

5. Amazon's Prime Video Is Adding Apple TV as a Subscription Add-On

Domain: variety.com | Companies: Apple

The two companies already work together on the devices side: Amazon's Fire TV family provides a native Apple TV+ app, and the Apple TV 4K boxes stream Prime Video. But the new deal raises their business partnership to a new level.

6. How AI-powered science search engines can speed up your research

Domain: nature.com

Artificial-intelligence tools offer a variety of approaches to help scientists to sift through the literature — how can researchers use them responsibly? ... Close up view of a man's hands type words on a laptop keyboard.

7. Should I Buy a Weighted Vest?

Domain: nymag.com

“Weighted vests are ergonomically designed to add mass but keep it close to the body,” says Christopher Gaffney, Ph.D., an exercise scientist at Lancaster University, who studied the effects of weighted vests in the journal Ergonomics. “The weight is also ...

8. Unwrapping stemness to revive T cells

Domain: science.org

T cell exhaustion, characterized by the loss of cytokine production and sustained expression of inhibitory receptors or immune checkpoints such as programmed cell death 1 (PD-1), poses a major hurdle in cancer immunotherapies, including immune ...

9. The Best October Prime Day MacBook Deals You Can Still Get Right Now

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You'll be asked to sign into your Forbes account. Got it. Oct 10, 2024, 01:03pm EDT ...

10. Google's Sycamore quantum computer chip can now outperform the fastest supercomputers, new study suggests

Domain: livescience.com

Experiments on Google's 67-qubit Sycamore processor showed operations entering a new "weak noise phase" in which calculations were complex enough to outperform supercomputers, based on benchmark testing. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

11. If Smart Glasses Are Coming, What Will That Mean for Classrooms?

Domain: edsurge.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off a prototype of the company's Orion augmented reality smart glasses at a company event last month. · Screenshot from Meta video.