Technology News for Friday 29th March 2024

1. These Techy Reading Glasses Are Expensive, But May Hold the Key to Future Eyewear

I couldn't give 32 Degree North glasses, made by Israeli company DeepOptics, a true test since I don't have presbyopia – an inevitable vision problem people develop around age 45, when natural changes to the lens of the eye make looking at things up close ...

2. iPad 2024 Rumors: New iPad Pro and Air Models Arriving in Early May

The current iPad lineup is a cluttered and confusing mess. There are two sizes of iPad Pro, a single iPad Air, two generations of the regular iPad and the iPad Mini that's still alive and kicking. It's hit or miss with which Apple Pencil works with ...

3. Rise of the Ronin Sends Players Into a Chaotic Japan

Team Ninja showed its talent for finely tuned combat in games like Ninja Gaiden and Nioh. Its first open-world game presents new design challenges that are not always met.

4. Apple iPhone 16 Pro: New Leak Reveals Updated Colors Coming This Fall

Apple launched the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max with titanium in their build last September. A new report claims that this fall, we'll see new colors in the range. And one of the colors is quite a departure.

5. AI “agents” could do real work in the real world. That might not be a good thing.

Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox's effective altruism-inspired section on the world's biggest challenges. She explores wide-ranging topics like climate change, artificial intelligence, vaccine development, and factory farms, and also ...

6. Google Confirms Abrupt U-Turn, Giving Key Upgrade To Pixel 8 Users

Google Pixel 8, soon with Gemini Nano. Google. Google released a statement on March 28, saying, “Running large language models on phones with different memory specs can deliver ...

7. Apple Introduces First-Ever Immersive Sports Film with Major League Soccer

Apple Immersive Video is a brand new entertainment format pioneered by Apple, featuring 8K 3D video with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio, available only on Apple Vision Pro.

8. Apple's Vision Pro (and All of Mixed Reality) Needs to Keep Rethinking Our Hands

Hand tracking in headsets like Vision Pro, and Meta's Quest headsets, is still a work in progress. So are the apps that lean on them. Apple.

9. Solving AI Energy Problems with Neuromorphic Technology

With the expansion of AI usage, the energy consumed by computers has been increasing explosively. TDK is developing a spin memristor, an analog memory element that electrically mimics the synapses in the human brain. Devices that utilize this ...

10. OpenAI Released A Preview Of Its AI Voice Generator—But It's Not Available To The Public

OpenAI revealed its Voice Engine tool Friday, an AI generator that can use text and an audio sample to create “natural-sounding speech that closely resembles the original speaker,” but the company said it will not be publicly available yet due to the ...

11. Reported Supply Chain Compromise Affecting XZ Utils Data Compression Library, CVE-2024-3094

XZ Utils is data compression software and may be present in Linux distributions. The malicious code may allow unauthorized access to affected systems. CISA recommends developers and users to downgrade XZ Utils to an uncompromised ...

12. 'Diablo IV' Is Now Available on Xbox Game Pass: Here's How To Play the Video Game Online

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Popular on Variety. Back in October 2023, Microsoft acquired the game studio Activision-Blizzard with an eye ...

13. Combining multiple meds into a single pill reduces cardiovascular deaths

A new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis bolsters previous findings that polypills are beneficial in preventing heart attacks and strokes and reducing deaths among people with cardiovascular risk factors, ...

14. The brain-computer interface race is on, with AI speeding up developments

For years, startups and academic researchers have been experimenting on humans and animals with placing sensors on or near the brain to deepen our understanding of the body's most mysterious and complicated organ. Last week, the ...