MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 15 and Blue Light Screen Protector From Ocushield

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 15 and Blue Light Screen Protector From Ocushield

For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Ocushield to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 15 and one of Ocushield’s Blue Light Screen Protectors to go along with it. Ocushield has a range of medically rated screen protectors that are designed for for the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. Ocushield specializes in … Read more

Mini-colon and brain ‘organoids’ shed light on cancer and other diseases

Mini-colon and brain ‘organoids’ shed light on cancer and other diseases

Part of a brain organoid made using human stem cells (purple).Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Researchers have hailed organoids — 3D clusters of cells that mimic aspects of human organs — as a potential way to test drugs and even eliminate some forms of animal experimentation. Now, in two studies published on 24 April in … Read more

Get an Echo Pop speaker with a free TP-Link smart light bulb for only $23

Get an Echo Pop speaker with a free TP-Link smart light bulb for only

If you like the idea of turning on a light just by talking, here’s an affordable smart home starter bundle. For those already comfortable with the automated life, this deal will give you one more thing to control and one more receptacle for your demands. Amazon’s smallest smart speaker, the Echo Pop, bundled with a … Read more

Used parts in Apple repairs get green light from Cupertino

Used parts in Apple repairs get green light from Cupertino

Customers and independent repair services can include used Apple parts in repairs for the first time beginning in fall 2024 with select iPhones, the company said Thursday. This-coming fall is when a new parts calibration process will launch. And it includes an Activation Lock to prevent use of parts from lost or stolen devices. Apple … Read more

Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2 works with HomeKit

Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2 works with HomeKit

The new Thread- and Matter-enabled Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2 came out Tuesday for use with HomeKit and other smart-home platforms, the company said. “In the rapidly expanding global market for Passive Infrared (PIR) sensors, Aqara has achieved remarkable success, distributing over 100,000 units last year,” noted Cathy You, Aqara’s senior VP of Global … Read more

No light without dark : making the most of ‘shadow IT’

No light without dark : making the most of ‘shadow IT’

In the last few decades, technology has created a modern digital workforce that is technically skilled and adept at finding innovative solutions that would help them succeed at work. However, with 95% of employees struggling with digital friction in the workplace – including a lack of access to the right tools – ambitious employees who … Read more

Logitech’s Litra Beam key light is 10 percent off right now

Logitech’s Litra Beam key light is 10 percent off right now

Having a fancy webcam is all well and good, but another thing you might need to seriously upgrade the quality of your video calls and livestreams is a decent key light. It will illuminate your face to help you stand out from the background and help the camera discern your features more clearly. You don’t … Read more

Edifier QR65 active speakers put on light show

Edifier QR65 active speakers put on light show

Edifier’s new desktop speakers put on a light show and charge gadgets. Photo: Edifier Edifier’s new QR65 Active Monitor Speakers pack 70 watts of power with hi-res audio certification, put on a light show and act as a fast gallium nitride (GaN) charger for your other gadgets, too. And the value-oriented Chinese audio brand brings … Read more

Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

Meta has unveiled details about its AI training infrastructure, revealing that it currently relies on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its open source Llama 3 LLM.  The company says it will have over 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in service by the end of 2024, and the computing power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s … Read more