How to Set Medication Reminders on Your Phone (2024): Best Apps, iPhone, Android, Samsung

Medisafe offers short videos for most medications where a doctor describes the medication and explains possible side effects and other useful information. The app will even flag possible interactions if you are taking multiple medications. The free version is excellent, but you can get rid of ads and unlock some extra customization options with a … Read more

Caviar’s 18-Karat Gold Custom Apple Vision Pro Won’t Start at $3,499

Caviar, a company known for making luxury variants of popular tech gadgets, intends to release a custom Apple Vision Pro plated with 18-karat gold next year that will inevitably set you back more than Apple’s $3,499 starting price. The device’s headband is made from Connolly leather, and features a gold visor cover attachment inspired by … Read more

‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding and the lofty aim of revolutionizing the GPU-centric world dominated by Nvidia. Founded by Ljubisa Bajic, Lejla Bajic, and Drago Ignjatovic, all previously from Tenstorrent (the creator of Grayskull), Taalas is developing an automated flow for quickly turning any AI model – … Read more

Verbose robots, and why some people love Bach: Books in Brief

Vision Impairment Michael Crossland UCL Press (2024) On a typical day in his clinic, London-based optometrist Michael Crossland assesses both young children and centenarians with low vision. Severe vision impairment affects 350 million people around the world, many of whom in poorer countries lack access to any eye care. His fascinating, sometimes moving, account — … Read more

One of our favorite pairs of noise-cancelling earbuds is down to a record-low price

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra earbuds are now $250 ahead of the Amazon Spring Sale. This is a discount of 17 percent, as they typically cost $300. It also happens to be a record-low price for the wireless earbuds, though they’ve only been on the market since September of last year. You can find more Bose … Read more

Best Apple Deals of the Week: M3 MacBook Air Gets First Discount on Amazon, Plus Best-Ever Price on AirPods Pro 2 With USB-C

Highlights from this week’s best deals include the AirPods Pro 2 for the all-time low price of $189.00, as well as Amazon’s first ever discount on the 15-inch M3 MacBook Air. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a … Read more

Misleading talk about iPhone demand in China costs Apple $490M

Tim Cook didn’t give investors the truth about iPhone demand in China in 2018 and it’s costing the company. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Apple reportedly settled a class action lawsuit that accused the company of hiding news of declining iPhone demand in China. It concerns comments made by CEO Tim Cook during an investor … Read more

More security flaws found in popular AI chatbots — and they could mean hackers can learn all your secrets

If a hacker can monitor the internet traffic between their target and the target’s cloud-based AI assistant, they could easily pick up on the conversation. And if that conversation contained sensitive information – that information would end up in the attackers’ hands, as well. This is according to a new analysis from researchers at the … Read more

Bird-flu threat disrupts Antarctic penguin studies

Avian flu has been detected sub-Antarctic king penguins.Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty A deadly strain of bird flu circulating worldwide is disrupting research in Antarctica and could lead to the cancellation of some projects to study penguins, seals and other animals next year. “This is the first time I remember such reduced access … Read more