Solo un día después del Internet Archive Máquina de restauración publicada Wayback Y otros servicios en su blog, El sitio se volvió a oscurecer. Al momento de escribir este artículo, una visita a la página de inicio del Archivo muestra un mensaje que confirma que, si bien Archive-It y su blog vuelven a estar en línea, el resto de los servicios de Internet Archive permanecen temporalmente no disponibles.
Esta es la página a la que serás bienvenido cuando visites archive.org Crédito: captura de pantalla de Internet Archive/Mashable
Es otro revés frustrante para los usuarios que dependen de los vastos recursos de la biblioteca digital, aunque los detalles sobre quién está causando esta nueva interrupción aún no están claros. En este punto, este parece ser el cuarto, sí, el cuarto, ciberataque al Internet Archive desde principios de octubre.
El momento de estos ataques al Internet Archive (y a otros depósitos de libros en línea, como las bibliotecas públicas de Gran Bretaña y Toronto) no podría ser peor. Con el archivo de Internet Habiendo perdido ya batallas legales Y con gigantes editoriales como Hachette, HarperCollins y Penguin Random House, estos ciberataques se suman al caos.
Este artículo se actualizará a medida que se recopile más información..
búsqueda de google La compañía anunció el miércoles que los resultados incluirán ahora el contexto histórico de los enlaces, proporcionando información sobre páginas web actualizadas recientemente. La iniciativa es parte de una colaboración entre el gigante tecnológico con sede en Mountain View e Internet Archive, una biblioteca digital sin fines de lucro con sede en EE. UU. que archiva miles de millones de páginas web para referencia futura. Este desarrollo se suma a la eliminación en febrero de la función de enlaces “en caché” que permitía a los usuarios ver una versión anterior de una página web.
Páginas web archivadas en la búsqueda de Google
en un blog correoInternet Archive anunció que las páginas web archivadas ahora aparecerán en Google Resultados de la búsqueda. Para acceder a versiones anteriores de enlaces, los usuarios deben seleccionar la opción de tres puntos que aparece junto al resultado de la búsqueda y elegir Más en esta página en Acerca de este resultado El panel aparecerá junto a un enlace a versiones anteriores de este sitio web con Ver versiones anteriores texto.
Opción para acceder a páginas web archivadas en la Búsqueda de Google
La nueva característica aprovecha Wayback Machine de Internet Archive para mostrar el sitio web exactamente como apareció en una fecha anterior.
en declaración En una declaración a 9to5Google, Google dijo: “Hemos agregado enlaces al motor de búsqueda Wayback Machine de Internet Archive a la función Acerca de esta página, para brindar a las personas un contexto rápido y hacer que esta información útil sea fácilmente accesible para todos a través de la búsqueda”.
La nueva función de enlaces archivados de Google todavía está en proceso y es posible que los usuarios de todo el mundo puedan verla en los próximos días. Estará disponible para los usuarios en 40 idiomas. El personal de Gadgets 360 pudo verificar la disponibilidad en varios sitios web.
Si bien el gigante tecnológico ofrecía anteriormente una funcionalidad similar con una de sus funciones más antiguas llamada “enlaces en caché”, se eliminó silenciosamente en febrero. Después de eliminarlos, los usuarios pueden aprovechar el “caché” del reproductor:[insert URL]“Pero también se esperaba que esta función se eliminara pronto. En ese momento, era el enlace de búsqueda de Google. teorético Una forma de restaurar una funcionalidad similar era a través de un enlace a Wayback Machine, y esta característica finalmente se implementó.
Lanzamiento de Luma AI inteligencia artificial El modelo de conversión de texto a vídeo (IA), Dream Machine, se globaliza el miércoles. El sistema puede crear videos de hasta cinco segundos de duración con indicaciones de texto simples o descriptivas. El modelo de IA puede crear videos en diferentes estilos, como cinematográficos, animados, realistas y más. La compañía de inteligencia artificial afirma que Dream Machine está completamente entrenada en video y es capaz de producir “imágenes precisas, consistentes y llenas de acontecimientos”. Actualmente, el acceso y el uso de la plataforma son gratuitos, pero probablemente tendrá un límite de generación diario.
Luma AI lanza Dream Machine por primera vez
De acuerdo con la sitio webEl modelo de IA de Dream Machine se construyó sobre un modelo transformador y se entrenó directamente en videos. Por lo general, los modelos de lenguaje grande (LLM) se entrenan con texto e imágenes y luego se transfieren a videos, porque requieren una comprensión espacial y motora más profunda. “La Dream Machine es nuestro primer paso hacia la construcción de un motor de fantasía de clase mundial”, añadió la compañía.
Dream Machine se suma a plataformas de generación de vídeo como Runway AI y Pika 1.0 que también son de dominio público y ofrece creación de vídeo en tres a cinco segundos. Gadgets 360 puso a prueba la plataforma y descubrió que el compromiso inmediato con la plataforma era deficiente. Tiene problemas con varios personajes o cuando el mensaje es demasiado complejo. Sin embargo, en comparación con los otros dos, es capaz de producir vídeos cinematográficos de mayor calidad.
La plataforma de inteligencia artificial tarda 120 segundos en crear un vídeo que, según la compañía, contendrá 120 fotogramas diferentes. También se dice que Dream Machine comprende cómo las personas, los animales y los objetos interactúan con el mundo físico y crea videos con física precisa y consistencia de personajes.
Sin embargo, Luma AI también destacó varias limitaciones en la situación actual, como el movimiento, el texto, la transformación y el famoso problema de Janus, donde en lugar de mostrar una salida 3D consistente, el modelo de IA muestra múltiples vistas básicas de un objeto en diferentes direcciones.
Dream Machine de Luma AI crea un vídeo sobre Stormtroopers Fuente de la imagen: Loma AI/Dream Machine
Luma AI no ha compartido ningún detalle técnico sobre el modelo de IA, por lo que se desconoce información sobre el tamaño de los parámetros, los parámetros, la arquitectura y los métodos de entrenamiento. La empresa tampoco compartió ningún detalle sobre la compra de datos de formación. En particular, Gadgets 360 ha logrado crear varios vídeos que contienen personajes protegidos por derechos de autor.
Para probar la plataforma, los entusiastas pueden ir al sitio web y hacer clic en el botón “Probar ahora”. Los usuarios deberán registrarse en la plataforma antes de poder crear videos.
Los enlaces de afiliados pueden generarse automáticamente; consulte nuestro sitio web Declaración de ética Para detalles.
The counter space in my kitchen is at a premium. It’s valuable real estate, and every square inch matters. So when a new espresso machine arrives at my door, I always have to play a high-stakes game of countertop appliance Tetris to figure out how everything will fit—or who needs to get banished into a cupboard. When the De’Longhi Specialista Arte Evo rolled into my kitchen, I was ready to make tough decisions.
From the box’s size, I was sure the rice cooker or the food processor would have to be exiled. When I got the De’Longhi out of its box, though, my appliances breathed a sigh of relief. This is a svelte espresso machine, and it fits perfectly without sending any of my favorite appliances to a pantry gulag. Things were off to a good start, and it only got better—mostly.
Slim and Consistent
The first couple of shots I pull out of any espresso machine will usually require some finagling. When an espresso machine has an internal burr grinder, that’s just one other thing I have to dial in from scratch. By the second shot, I was happy with what I was getting out of the Specialista.
The espresso poured into the cup in two streams of luxurious caramel-gold liquid, the crema gathering on top in an even layer. I changed the settings and pulled more tester shots to see how it performed with different grind consistencies and amounts for testing purposes, but by that second shot, I knew I’d found the sweet spot.
Photograph: Jaina Grey
Something I always like about De’Longhi espresso machines is the knobs. A lot of different models from the company up and down the price spectrum have really good knobs. The ones here are a joy to use. They’re raised from the surface of the control panel, and the outward face has the signature concentric circles of machined steel; the sides are adorned with textured metal accents. One controls the amount of coffee to grind, and the other toggles between brewing modes.
When you turn the grind knob, there’s a little resistance, just enough to feel like you have very fine control. The mode knob has a satisfying click when you switch from one mode to another. How much you enjoy using a device is important, and these little details make the Specialista Arte Evo feel good to use.
The Specialista Arte Evo comes in at a delightfully narrow 11.2 inches, sparing quite a bit of my counter space—especially since this is taking the place of two appliances, an espresso machine and a coffee grinder. There are smaller espresso machines—the new KitchenAid Semi-Automatic Espresso Machine is about as narrow as the Specialista—but most that have a built-in grinder are a little wider.
Photograph: Jaina Grey
Some Assembly Required
The Specialista’s built-in conical burr grinder can grind coffee fine enough for espresso and coarse enough for drip or other brewing methods, so it’s capable of replacing a stand-alone grinder. There is one little quirk, though. The portafilter can’t slot into place underneath the grinder unless you attach the “grinding and tamping guide.” This component is a short cylinder of plastic that locks onto the portafilter to guide the grounds directly into the basket and help direct the tamp down onto the grounds.
It’s weird. The guide doesn’t feel as high-quality as other parts of the Specialista, almost like a cheap 3D-printed plastic. If you try to slot the portafilter underneath the grinder without the guide, you have to hold it there the whole time, and the grinder will likely spill some grounds into the drip tray. It feels like the grinding and tamping guide was added as a fix to the issue of the grounds spilling out.
Neuromorphic computing is about mimicking the human brain’s structure to deliver more efficient data processing, including faster speeds and higher accuracy, and it’s a hot topic right now. A lot of universities and tech firms are working on it, including scientists at Intel who have built the world’s largest “brain-based” computing system for Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
Intel’s creation, called Hala Point, is only the size of a microwave, but boasts 1.15 billion artificial neurons. That’s a massive step up from the 50 million neuron capacity of its predecessor, Pohoiki Springs, which debuted four years ago. There’s a theme with Intel’s naming in case you were wondering – they’re locations in Hawaii.
Hala Point is ten times faster than its predecessor, 15 times denser, and with one million circuits on a single chip. Pohoiki Springs only had 128,000.
Making full use of it
Equipped with 1,152 Loihi 2 research processors (Loihi is a volcano in Hawaii), the Hala Point system will be tasked with harnessing the power of vast neuromorphic computation. “Our colleagues at Sandia have consistently applied our Loihi hardware in ways we never imagined, and we look forward to their research with Hala Point leading to breakthroughs in the scale, speed and efficiency of many impactful computing problems,” said Mike Davies, director of the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel Labs.
Since a Neuromorphic system of this scale hasn’t existed before, Sandia has been developing special algorithms to ultimately make use of the computer’s full capabilities.
“We believe this new level of experimentation – the start, we hope, of large-scale neuromorphic computing – will help create a brain-based system with unrivaled ability to process, respond to and learn from real-life data,” Sandia lead researcher Craig Vineyard said.
His colleague, fellow researcher Brad Aimone added, “One of the main differences between brain-like computing and regular computers we use today – in both our brains and in neuromorphic computing – is that the computation is spread over many neurons in parallel, rather than long processes in series that are an inescapable part of conventional computing. As a result, the more neurons we have in a neuromorphic system, the more complex a calculation we can perform. We see this in real brains. Even the smallest mammal brains have tens of millions of neurons; our brains have around 80 billion. We see it in today’s AI algorithms. Bigger is far better.”
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Artificial General Intelligence, when it exists, will be able to do many tasks better than humans. For now, the machine learning systems and generative AI solutions available on the market are a stopgap to ease the cognitive load on engineers, until machines which think like people exist.
Generative AI is currently dominating headlines, but its backbone, neural networks, have been in use for decades. These Machine Learning (ML) systems historically acted as cruise control for large systems that would be difficult to constantly maintain by hand. The latest algorithms also proactively respond to errors and threats, alerting teams and recording logs of unusual activity. These systems have developed further and can even predict certain outcomes based on previously observed patterns.
This ability to learn and respond is being adapted to all kinds of technology. One that persists is the use of AI tools in envirotech. Whether it’s enabling new technologies with vast data processing capabilities, or improving the efficiency of existing systems by intelligently adjusting inputs to maximize efficiency, AI at this stage of development is so open ended it could theoretically be applied to any task.
Roman Khavronenko
Co-Founder of VictoriaMetrics.
AI’s undeniable strengths
GenAI isn’t inherently energy intensive. A model or neural network is no more energy inefficient than any other piece of software when it is operating, but the development of these AI tools is what generates the majority of the energy costs. The justification for this energy consumption is that the future benefits of the technology are worth the cost in energy and resources.
Some reports suggest many AI applications are ‘solutions in search of a problem’, and many developers are using vast amounts of energy to develop tools that could produce dubious energy savings at best. One of the biggest benefits of machine learning is its ability to read through large amounts of data, and summarize insights for humans to act on. Reporting is a laborious and frequently manual process, time saved reporting can be shifted to actioning machine learning insights and actively addressing business-related emissions.
Businesses are under increasing pressure to start reporting on Scope 3 emissions, which are the hardest to measure, and the biggest contributor of emissions for most modern companies. Capturing and analyzing these disparate data sources would be a smart use of AI, but would still ultimately require regular human guidance. Monitoring solutions already exist on the market to reduce the demand on engineers, so taking this a step further with AI is an unnecessary and potentially damaging innovation.
Replacing the engineer with an AI agent reduces human labor, but removes a complex interface, just to add equally complex programming in front of it. That isn’t to say innovation should be discouraged. It’s a noble aim, but do not be sold a fairy tale that this will happen without any hiccups. Some engineers will be replaced eventually by this technology, but the industry should approach it carefully.
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Consider self-driving cars. They’re here, they’re doing better than an average human-driver. But in some edge cases they can be dangerous. The difference is that it is very easy to see this danger, compared to the potential risks of AI.
Today’s ‘clever’ machines are like naive humans
AI agents at the present stage of development are comparable to human employees – they need training and supervision, and will gradually become out of date unless re-trained from time to time. Similarly, as has been observed with ChatGPT, models can degrade over time. The mechanics that drive this degradation are not clear, but these systems are delicately calibrated, and this calibration is not a permanent state. The more flexible the model, the more likely it can misfire and function suboptimally. This can manifest as data or concept drift, an issue where a model invalidates itself over time. This is one of many inherent issues with attaching probabilistic models to deterministic tools.
A concerning area of development is the use of AI in natural language inputs, trying to make it easier for less technical employees or decision makers to save on hiring engineers. Natural language outputs are ideal for translating the expert, subject specific outputs from monitoring systems, in a way that makes the data accessible for those who are less data literate. Despite this strength even summarizations can be subject to hallucinations where data is fabricated, this is an issue that persists in LLMs and could create costly errors where AI is used to summarize mission critical reports.
The risk is we create AI overlays for systems that require deterministic inputs. Trying to make the barrier to entry for complex systems lower is admirable, but these systems require precision. AI agents cannot explain their reasoning, or truly understand a natural language input and work out the real request in the way a human can. Moreover, it adds another layer of energy consuming software to a tech stack for minimal gain.
We can’t leave it all to AI
The rush to ‘AI everything’ is producing a tremendous amount of wasted energy, with 14,000 AI startups currently in existence, how many will actually produce tools that will benefit humanity? While AI can improve the efficiency of a data center by managing resources, ultimately that doesn’t manifest into a meaningful energy saving as in most cases that free capacity is then channeled into another application, using any saved resource headroom, plus the cost of yet more AI powered tools.
Can AI help achieve sustainability goals? Probably, but most of the advocates fall down at the ‘how’ part of that question, in some cases suggesting that AI itself will come up with new technologies. Climate change is now an existential threat with so many variables to account for it stretches the comprehension of the human mind. Rather than tackling this problem directly, technophiles defer responsibility to AI in the hope it will provide a solution at some point in future. The future is unknown, and climate change is happening now. Banking on AI to save us is simply crossing our fingers and hoping for the best dressed up as neo-futurism.
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Playdate came out two years ago, and it’s still miniscule and yellow with a black-and-white screen and a delightful crank on its side. Today, the device has a built-in library of more than 100 titles, none of which are Call of Duty, Dark Souls, The Last of Us or any other big-budget, mainstream game — and this is precisely what makes it so damn charming. The community that’s sprung up around this palmheld is lively and creative, and scrolling through the Playdate tags on itch.io or github feels like hanging out in a friendly underground clubhouse populated by crank-obsessed video game freaks.
It’s less disturbing than it sounds, I promise.
For real though, Playdate has only gotten cuter and more relevant with age. Firewatch publisher Panic and hardware studio Teenage Engineering unveiled the device in February 2019, pitching it as a sub-$200 handheld with a monochromatic screen, a crank and seasonal drops of free games. Pre-orders for Playdate opened in July 2021 and the plan was for shipments to start by the end of that year. However, in November, Panic discovered in its production line and the company was forced to swap suppliers and delay the release. Playdate officially landed in players’ hands in April 2022, and overall, reviewers found that it was .
Panic
Playdate shipped with 4GB of flash storage and 24 free games, including Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure from Keita Takahashi’s studio uvula and Zipper by Bennett Foddy. Playdate has always supported sideloading, too, meaning it’s easy to get titles from and other distribution sites on the device. In March 2023, Playdate’s Catalog went live, offering a curated selection of 16 games for purchase. Panic also upped the price of Playdate from $179 to $199 at this time, citing rising manufacturing costs.
Today, Panic has sold roughly 70,000 Playdates and its Catalog features over 100 games, with more added regularly. Panic held a software showcase in February and the headliner was , a Playdate-exclusive project from Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope. Mars After Midnight came out on March 12, and Playdate had a that week, just like a grown-up storefront would.
Two years post-launch, it’s clear that there’s no single formula for a Playdate game. , for instance, turns the Playdate on its side and uses the crank as a helicopter-style rotor, spinning the propeller cap on a demon trapped in a gothic tower. Cranking controls this horned dude as he slices through flying enemies, leaving bits of meat and bone to fall out of the narrow frame. And then there are titles like , a simple yet addictive letter-shifting game that I would recommend to all Wordle fans. Playdate supports first-person shooters, detective mysteries, bullet hells, shoot-em-ups, puzzle games, RPGs, pocket pets, rhythm situations, action-adventures, racing sims and all manner of subgenres, including some that have been invented just for the platform.
Root Bear by TEAM ROOT
Across Playdate’s UI and games, the crank transforms into hundreds of different tools. There are the standard iterations like crank to scroll and crank to buy, but there’s also crank to pour a drink, crank to fly, crank to fish, crank to spin a record, crank to build a city, crank to control time, crank to crank, crank to survive. Literally every game on Playdate reveals a new use case for the crank or helps demonstrate the absurd level of detail possible on a 400 x 240 1-bit display. Many games do both of these things — and Mars After Midnight is one of them.
As the creature in charge of a community room on a Martian colony, Mars After Midnight players crank open an observation window and identify the correct aliens for each session, while also providing snacks, cleaning up with two long tentacles and planning future support groups. Players use the crank to slam the room’s peephole open and shut, but the game also fully incorporates Playdate’s A and B buttons, D-pad and speaker, rolling out fresh mechanics at a steady pace. The game is populated by adorable, bumbling aliens and cartoonishly cute set pieces, and it even introduces an entire language.
Like the vast majority of Playdate games, Mars After Midnight doesn’t feel like a pared-down version of a bigger idea; it was simply meant to be a colorless, crank-powered experience.
Mars After Midnight by Lucas Pope
I’ve encountered one consistent issue with Playdate, and it’s something that I didn’t think would be a huge problem when I first reviewed it in 2022. The lack of backlight in its display is noticeable and occasionally annoying, particularly in low-light spaces. I often find myself tilting the screen toward a nearby window or lamp, and the device is pretty much unplayable on a dark plane or bus, or without a light source after sunset. If you remember trying to play an original Game Boy at night in the backseat of your parents’ car, waiting for the street lights to flicker past the window at regular intervals, it’s a lot like that. There’s a tinge of nostalgia here, but it’s mostly just kinda frustrating.
Playdate’s biggest issue, however, might be the Stereo Dock. Panic unveiled the Stereo Dock in mid-2021 — it’s a truly adorable charging stand, Bluetooth speaker and pen holder that matches Playdate’s pleasant yellow hue. I’ve wanted to plop one on my desk since it was announced, but the Stereo Dock has been “coming soon” for two years now.
It really is still coming, Playdate Project Lead Greg Maletic told Engadget.
“We apologize to everyone with a Playdate who has been waiting patiently for the Stereo Dock; it’s been a trickier project than we anticipated and we had a few false starts,” Maletic said. “We thought we’d save some time on that project by having our factory do the software for the Stereo Dock, but we’ve learned that you don’t always necessarily want that in some cases. The Stereo Dock is very much alive, we have the physical prototypes to prove it! We expect to have a formal update on when you can buy one later this year.”
Panic
If the worst thing about Playdate is the fact that people can’t get enough of it, then it sounds like things are going well. The device hasn’t faced any widespread recalls or hardware issues, its storefront is growing, its development pipeline is , and people are still interested in buying it (and the Stereo Dock, one day).
With Playdate, Panic has created a new pocket of curious game enthusiasts, and it’s provided a platform for innovation that will ripple across all sectors of development. Playdate is a simple, small gaming machine with a single twist — a crank — and in its first two years on the market, it’s unearthed wells of creativity in the indie scene. By paring down the graphics and adding a new input method, Playdate changes the way we think about how games are played and made. As many of the industry’s most influential studios are trapped in a cycle of mass layoffs and regularly scheduled crunch, it’s a fantastic time to rethink what we’re all actually doing here. Playdate makes this process natural, accessible and entertaining.
Panic
A device like Playdate doesn’t just happen. I wouldn’t be worried about revisiting this thing two years post-launch if it were too underpowered, overcomplicated or unserious, but this isn’t a funny gimmick from a company on a press tour. The sense of elegance, care and proper prioritization built into Playdate is what makes it a blank canvas for so many different styles of game development. Playdate is a little yellow inspiration machine; it’s a physical reset button for the entire industry. Actually, I guess it’s a reset crank.
KitchenAid is a brand that’s had a place in every home kitchen I’ve ever had, even growing up. When I bought my own KitchenAid stand mixer for the first time after college, my apartment finally felt like a place where a grown-up lived. My affection for that stand mixer cannot be overstated, so naturally my ears perked up when KitchenAid announced it was revamping its espresso machine lineup.
There are three new fully automatic espresso machines: the KF8, KF7, and KF6. Then there’s the KitchenAid Semi Automatic Espresso Machine, plus a 2-in-1 with a built-in burr grinder. I love a good fully automatic espresso machine for its expedience and ease, but there’s a part of me that just craves the practiced ritual of brewing your own espresso at home. The first of these machines to make their way to my doorstep was the Semi Automatic, so here we are. Keep an eye out for my review of the automatics soon.
Considerate Counter Footprint
I’m a lifelong apartment-dweller, and one of the many lessons I’ve learned from a life spent apartment-hopping is the value of counter space. When I set the KitchenAid Semi Automatic Espresso Machine on my counter for the first time, I couldn’t help but smile.
This is a fully-featured espresso machine with a built-in burr grinder, and it fits in the area previously occupied by my rice cooker—a strip of counter too narrow for other practical uses. This machine is narrow, clocking in at about 13 inches wide and 15 inches tall. It fits comfortably, with room to spare, underneath my somewhat low-hanging kitchen cabinets.
Photograph: Jaina Grey
Because of the tight space in my kitchen, it’s sometimes hard to access the water tank on the back of espresso machines I test. Usually, I have to either wrestle to remove the tank and bring it to the faucet, or resign myself to filling it by carrying cup after cup from my sink to the machine. The KitchenAid Semi Automatic effortlessly navigates that little stumbling block by having wheels on the bottom. I can just pull the machine away from the wall, turn it sideways, and fully remove the water tank.
I initially worried the machine would be too slippery with wheels, making it hard to tighten the portafilter into place without the whole thing sliding all the time. Thankfully, the wheels are smooth but they do require a little muscle to move—a good thing. To twist the portafilter in place, you still have to brace it with one hand, but you typically have to do that with small espresso machines anyway.
The wheels also make it so much easier to clean under and behind the machine. I’m currently testing another espresso machine on my other countertop, and it’s so heavy that moving it to clean up any spilled grounds or ultrafine coffee dust that’s accumulated behind the machine is a huge pain. A literal pain, given my chronic back issues.
Whisper Quiet
This KitchenAid machine features a certification from Quiet Mark, meaning it’s been tested to ensure it’s as quiet as possible (there’s a cute little Q sticker on the front of the machine). I was skeptical because even quiet grinders can get pretty loud. I was wrong. This Semi Automatic just might be the quietest espresso machine I’ve ever tested.
Grinding the beans produces only a little mechanical whirr sound. It’s quiet enough that you can continue to have a conversation while it grinds—a test every other grinder that’s come through my kitchen has failed, even the quiet ones. The grinder is also remarkably consistent. It produces grounds fine enough for espresso and coarse enough for other brewing methods. I think it can fully replace a countertop coffee grinder, no matter what kind of other coffee you like brewing.
Yesterday, Samsung launched the new Bespoke AI Laundry Combo alongside other Bespoke AI products globally. It hasn’t even been twenty-four hours since then and the company is already adding a new feature to the Bespoke AI Laundry Combo.
Samsung has announced that it has partnered with Procter & Gamble (P&G) to launch the Tide POD Cold wash cycle for the Bespoke AI Laundry Combo in Canada and the United States. According to Samsung, “The new wash cycle is optimized for dissolving Tide Hygienic Clean Heavy Duty 10X Power PODS® detergent while using cold water, providing excellent laundry performance without consuming energy to heat the water.” The company further says “Compared to the normal warm wash cycle, the Tide POD Cold wash cycle can provide energy savings without compromising wash performance.”
From what we understand, Samsung will offer the new wash cycle to the Bespoke AI Laundry Combo with a software update. To update the firmware of the company’s washers and dryers without a full-fledged display, you had to use the SmartThings app on your phone or tablet. However, the Bespoke AI Laundry has a full-fledged touch-enabled color display and offers a settings menu as well. So, we are assuming that you will be able to update the product’s software right from the command center by connecting it to Wi-Fi.
It’s almost time for spring cleaning — and that can and should include tidying up your Mac’s files. If you want to do the job right, try professional software like Mac Washing Machine X9 from Intego’s robust software suite.
Read more about the software — and how to get a great deal on it — below. It’ll get rid of unneeded files and have your Mac running like a champ in no time.
Intego Mac Washing Machine X9
Macs are efficient and maintain themselves quite well without our intervention. But over time, with heavy use, they can slow down as they become cluttered with unnecessary files. So it’s a good idea to remove unwanted and duplicate files and organize what’s on your Mac automatically with Mac Washing Machine X9.
And hop to it — the software is on sale for $19.99 instead of $49.99 — but only for a few days.
Say goodbye to junk files
Washing Machine helps you select items to “clean,” aka delete. Photo: Intego
Your Mac is probably full of files you just don’t need. Whether it’s caches you no longer use or language files for languages you don’t even speak, there are often plenty of them.
So some cleaning will do your Mac good. Mac Washing Machine X9 helps you clean up your Mac by finding and removing these files. And that helps your computer run faster and more efficiently.
Duplicates? What duplicates?
You can customize your searches for certain types of duplicates with toggles. Photo: Intego
Mac Washing Machine X9 also allows you to delete extra files — known as duplicates — on your Mac. They’re not backups. They’re just simple, automatically generated duplicates you most likely don’t even know exist. And you certainly don’t need them taking up space on the system.
Intego’s software identifies unnecessary files and allows you to delete them with a single click. It cleans up your Mac and frees yo disk space, making room for the files you actually need.
Clutter is the enemy of efficiency
The Tidy function helps you organize items, like adding or removing apps from your Dock. Photo: Intego
Is your Mac a real mess? Well, you’re in luck, because Mac Washing Machine X9 can automatically organize the jungle of files on your desktop by putting each file in its own folder.
It can also tell you which applications you use the most or the least, so you can pick the ones you want to place in your Mac’s Dock for easy access. (This also helps you flag the ones you want to remove from the Dock.)
Right now, Mac Washing Machine X9 is half the price of CleanMyMac
Mac Washing Machine X9 will be available for a few days at the special price of $19.99 (for one Mac) instead of $49.99. That’s about half the price of competitor CleanMyMac.
Mac Washing Machine X9 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.13 through the latest macOS Sonoma, and it works on the latest M3 Macs. It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
And if you want more comprehensive protection from Intego, you can get the Intego Mac Premium Bundle. It includes Mac Washing Machine X9 as well as robust antivirus (VirusBarrier), firewall, backup, VPN and parental control apps — all for just $34.99.