Technology News for Friday 15th March 2024

1. Apple Bought an AI Startup: What to Know About Its AI Plans

Apple quietly purchased the startup earlier this year amid the company's big push for more AI features in iOS 18. ... Apple purchased Darwin, an artificial-intelligence startup. Krongkaew/Getty Images.

2. There's an Art to Arranging a Bookshelf. Here's How It's Done.

“It's like a little cabinet of curiosities,” said Jeremiah Brent, an interior designer and the newest cast member of Netflix's “Queer Eye.” Your bookshelves, he added, offer “an opportunity for people to look in and see where you've been and where you're ...

3. Targeting better safety: next steps for CRISPR therapeutics

Stanford University bioengineer Stanley Qi was excited when the groundbreaking gene-editing CRISPR medicine Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) made it to the market in late 2023. “I started working on CRISPR in 2012, and we didn't even know if this ...

4. Smartphone Screen Repairs Surge to $8.3B in 2023: Allstate Protection

While smartphone use is rising, fewer phones are suffering damage that requires repairs or replacement. Good thing, because users can hardly part with smartphones long enough to get them fixed. In its latest Mobile Mythconceptions Surveys, ...

5. Rare Deals on New Sonos Smart Speakers and Soundbars Are Up for Grabs

It's a portable Bluetooth speaker with a new and improved acoustic design that adds an extra tweeter when compared to the previous model. You still get great bass but now you get better highs, too. The speaker ...

6. The wedge-shaped M1 MacBook Air lives on — at Walmart, for $699

That said, you only get to choose the base model, which comes with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. I'd normally bristle at 8GB of RAM in 2024 — but the drop to $699 takes some of the sting out of that, and it's even lower than recent discounts that had ...

7. Samsung Presents Powerful AI and Smart Features on Its Latest Neo QLED, OLED and Lifestyle Portfolio at European ...

Tech Seminar sessions are a longstanding program, having delivered detailed information and exclusive hands-on experiences with new products for the past 13 years. As part of Samsung's Visual Display vision — “We look out of ...

8. Apple's New AI Move Just Changed The Game For All iPhone Users

Apple has just ramped up its AI plans after buying Canadian start up DarwinAI. It comes just months before the release of the iPhone maker's iOS 18 software and as Apple makes its first major push into generative AI this year.

9. 'Games made by soulless machines': Tech sparks debate over AI stories in video games

Is the future of artificial intelligence in video games playing out in a cyberpunk ramen bar? Tech companies would like you to think so, but game writers aren't so sure. In a recent demo from the tech company Nvidia, a human player talked to two video ...

10. A House bill proposing a sale or a ban of TikTok has moved to the Senate

NPR's A Martinez talks to Jen Golbeck, a professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, about the app's ability to track its American users. Copyright 2024 NPR.

11. Walmart Debuts $699 Price Point for MacBook Air with Apple M1 Chip

On Friday, Walmart announced a $699 price point on the 13-inch MacBook Air with M1, making the device CNET has called "the most universally useful laptop you can buy" more affordable than ever before.

12. Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra: A Big, Powerful Transformation

The biggest Zenfone yet gains a lot of features from the ROG line of gaming phones. Mike Sorrentino.

13. Is the $699 M1 MacBook Air a Good Deal? What You Need to Know

Apple MacBook Air M1 laptop open on a gray table with a blue sofa in the. Josh Goldman/CNET. When Apple released the ...

14. Apple's M1 MacBook Air is down to an new all-time low price

Apple's M1 MacBook Air has continued to be one of the best laptops for everyday computing without fuss, so it's always a pleasure to see it on sale. That goes double when it hits the all-time low of $650, which is $100 cheaper than what we saw during ...

15. Is Microsoft Too Big To Fail in AI?

After reorienting Microsoft to cloud computing services, making it the second-largest player in the sector, its CEO Satya Nadella engaged in the hot pursuit of artificial intelligence. Microsoft's investment of billions of dollars in OpenAI has paid ...