Apple Podcasts transcripts: How to find and read them in iOS 17.4

Apple Podcasts transcripts: How to find and read them in iOS 17.4

It just became a lot easier to read along with a podcast, or pull an interesting quote out of one. The Apple Podcasts app now automatically generates transcripts for series and episodes. Here’s how to find and read these transcripts in the iPhone Podcasts app. Every episode on Apple Podcasts will get a transcript Podcasts … Read more

Integrated optical frequency division for microwave and mmWave generation

Integrated optical frequency division for microwave and mmWave generation

Microwave and mmWave with high spectral purity are critical for a wide range of applications1,2,3, including metrology, navigation and spectroscopy. Owing to the superior fractional frequency stability of reference-cavity stabilized lasers when compared to electrical oscillators14, the most stable microwave sources are now achieved in optical systems by using optical frequency division4,5,6,7 (OFD). Essential to … Read more

New Logitech MX Brio webcam combines ultra HD with AI

New Logitech MX Brio webcam combines ultra HD with AI

The business version includes the AI feature. Photo: Logitech Logitech’s new MX Brio and MX Brio 705 for Business 4K webcams combine ultra high-definition video performance with artificial intelligence to help find your best look, the company said. “We know that MX users collaborate and communicate from many different environments, and need a versatile webcam … Read more

Mar10 Day deals include a $25 gift card when you buy a Nintendo Switch

Mar10 Day deals include a  gift card when you buy a Nintendo Switch

Mario Day, otherwise called MAR10 Day or just March 10, is upon us. This is the date to celebrate Nintendo’s iconic plumber. It’s not his birthday or anything, but rather a random day on the calendar that sort of looks like his name when spelled in a certain way. You know, like how Star Wars … Read more

Bumblebees show behaviour previously thought to be unique to humans

Bumblebees show behaviour previously thought to be unique to humans

Scientists have long accepted the existence of animal culture, be that tool use in New Caledonian crows, or Japanese macaques washing sweet potatoes. Read the paper here: Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone But one thing thought to distinguish human culture is our ability to do things too complex to work out … Read more

Firm headed by legendary chip architect behind AMD Zen finally releases first hardware — days after being selected to build the future of AI in Japan, Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs

Firm headed by legendary chip architect behind AMD Zen finally releases first hardware — days after being selected to build the future of AI in Japan, Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs

Tenstorrent, the firm led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller, the mastermind behind AMD‘s Zen architecture and Tesla’s original self-driving chip, has launched its first hardware. Grayskull is a RISC-V alternative to GPUs that is designed to be easier to program and scale, and reportedly excels at handling run-time sparsity and conditional computation. Off the back … Read more

iPhone SDK unlocks power of apps

iPhone SDK unlocks power of apps

March 6, 2008: Apple releases the iPhone software development kit, finally allowing coders to start creating native mobile apps for the new smartphone. The iPhone SDK gives developers the tools they need to unlock the new smartphone’s potential. When the App Store eventually opens a few months later, a new industry springs up overnight. Third-party … Read more

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone

Culture in animals can be broadly conceptualized as the sum of a population’s behavioural traditions, which, in turn, are defined as behaviours that are transmitted through social learning and that persist in a population over time4. Although culture was once thought to be exclusive to humans and a key explanation of our own evolutionary success, … Read more