Apple is targeting a sub-$500 starting price for its upcoming fourth-generation iPhone SE model despite a raft of rumored upgrades coming to the more affordable device. According to leaker Revegnus on X, the U.S. launch price of the fourth-generation iPhone SE will either remain at the same $429 starting price as the current model, or will see an increase of around 10%. Either way, Apple’s intention is to keep the price below $500. Last week, The Information reported that Apple plans to release a redesigned iPhone SE in the spring of 2025 that will remain the “cheaper” option in Apple’s…
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We’re still well over a month out from WWDC, but Apple went ahead and snuck in another event. On Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET, the company is set to unveil the latest additions to the iPad line. According to the rumor mill, that list includes: a new iPad Pro, iPad Air, Apple Pencil and a keyboard case. More surprisingly, the event may also see the launch of the new M4 chip, a little over six months after the company unveiled three new M3 chips in one fell swoop. Why the quick silicon refresh? Well, for starters,…
Douglas Goodall, a quest designer for Morrowind, is once again working on the classic Bethesda game through the power of mods. While it’s been more than 20 years since Goodall actually worked at Bethesda, the game designer has been back at work on Morrowind, having worked on a mod for the game that features an all new storyline (thanks, GamesRadar). Goodall has been working on the mod under the pseudonym AFFA, where he’s been serving as a writer for it. The mod in question is titled Red Wisdom – An Ashlandr Prophecy, and sees you embarking “on a…
Oppo showcased the Reno12 Pro earlier this month, and now the phone has been certified on TENAA with a full set of specifications. The upcoming phone will have a thin 7.6 mm profile, powerful chipset, and improved cameras on both sides. The series is arriving on May 23, and the company confirmed on Weibo the phones will be the first Android devices that will be able to capture Live photos – a feature that is currently available only on iOS. The Reno12 Pro will launch with a 3.25 GHz CPU, which is only on the Dimensity 9300. The screen will…
Guide dog and robotic guide dog. Credit: Zinj Guo What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say the authors of a recent paper. Led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). The paper is published in the Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Guide dogs enable remarkable autonomy and mobility for their handlers. However, only a fraction…
Using interference between two lasers, a research group led by scientists from RIKEN and NTT Research have created an ‘optical conveyor belt’ that can move polaritons — a type of light-matter hybrid particle — in semiconductor-based microcavities. This work could lead to the development of new devices with applications in areas such as quantum metrology and quantum information. For the current study, published in Nature Photonics, the scientists used the interference between two lasers to create a dynamic potential energy landscape — imagine a landscape of valleys and hills, in constant repeating motion — for a coherent, laser-like state of…
Bronwyn Bridges discusses her journey into healthtech with PragmaClin and her entrepreneurial “superpower.” Bronwyn Bridges, a scientist and entrepreneur from Newfoundland, has raised more than $2.5 million to help people living with Parkinson’s disease get treatment faster. The ailment affects one in 500 Canadians, and approximately 6,600 are diagnosed each year, according to UCB Canada. Bridges developed a platform designed to be used in doctors’ offices to assess patient symptoms that can be deployed in rural communities, which often lack specialized practitioners able to diagnose. In addition to the $2.5 million she’s secured through provincial funding and pitch competitions, Bridges…
Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default. Making matters worse, you’ll have to ask your organization’s Slack admin (human resources, IT, etc.) to email the company to ask it to stop. (You can’t do it yourself.) Welcome to the dark side of the new AI training data gold rush.Corey Quinn, an executive at DuckBill Group, spotted the policy in a blurb in Slack’s Privacy Principles and posted about it on X (via PCMag). The section reads (emphasis ours), “To develop…
It might be a good time to finally upgrade your iPhone if you’ve been hanging onto an older model — according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will be offering a little more than usual for some trade-ins starting next week in the US and Canada. The company itself hasn’t said anything about the promotion, but according to Gurman, it’ll be offered in-store to customers who’ll be using the credit toward any model in the iPhone 15 lineup. This will reportedly be in effect starting this Monday and last until June 3.Starting Monday in the U.S. and Canada, you’ll get an…
Seablip is a pixel art pirate ’em up, which promises an open world to sail around, islands to visit, crews to hire, bounties to hunt, and minigames through which to uncover treasure and fish. It looks adorable and it’s out in Early Access now.