Viture Pro 2 review: Affordable glasses that I loved more for work than play
Viture Pro 2 MSRP $299.00 “A terrific value.” Pros Light and stylish Bright display units No need for prescription inserts Affordable, at last Decent head tracking Cons Slight shimmer in spatial view Heats up in the temple area Dongle needed for iPhones Desktop app has bugs Lack of HDR10 support Quick summary Two years ago, […]
ChatGPT Wants to Track Your Clicks and Keystrokes
Sample exchange between OpenAI developer Dominik Kundel and ChatGPT’s Computer History tool. Credit: OpenAI/ExtremeTech Late last week, OpenAI introduced an optional Computer History tool to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. The tool logs activity from approved apps and websites, like clicks, typed text, and keyboard shortcuts. ChatGPT and Codex can use that information to […]
Here’s 6 Kingdom Hearts 4 worlds I think we’ll see following Coco’s official D23 reveal — including the one Tetsuya Nomura has ‘always’ wanted to include
Over the weekend, we were treated to Disney’s annual D23 showcase, and while many will be soaking up the major Marvel Cinematic Universe reveals (including the X-Men cast announcement), I was far more interested in the brand-new Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer. KINGDOM HEARTS IV – Extended D23 2026 Coco Trailer – YouTube Watch On Not […]
Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required
The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn’t a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. It was a 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba: Qwen3.8-27B landed on Hugging Face on Friday under an enterprise-friendly, open source Apache 2.0 license, giving […]
New Detection Reveals a Galaxy With Three Cores
Thee black holes, as seen in the newly discovered galaxy J0148-4214. Credit: Hannah Übler Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have released new observations of galaxy J0148-4214, a whopping 12.5 billion light-years away. For reference, the Big Bang itself occurred a little less than 14 billion years ago. All three black holes […]
Meta’s facial recognition smart glasses idea just resurfaced in a patent
Meta has spent much of this year trying to calm concerns about facial recognition coming to its smart glasses. But the company doesn’t look ready to give up on the idea, and a newly public patent application shows just how seriously Meta has continued exploring the technology. First reported by Patentlyze, the application was filed […]
6 fitness trackers under $100 — from the super-popular Google Fitbit Air to the 5-star Amazfit Active 2
You might be looking at the Apple Watch Ultra 3 or Garmin Fenix 8 and balking at the cost of fitness watches these days, but tracking your health doesn’t have to empty your wallet. There are plenty of terrific budget options, and below we’ve listed six of the best, all of which you can find […]
Apple Wallet driver’s licenses are coming to North Carolina, but there’s a catch
Following California and Ohio, Apple Wallet is getting another driver’s license, with North Carolina preparing to bring digital IDs to the iPhone. The state is currently developing its mobile ID program, but residents won’t be able to add their license directly to Apple Wallet at launch. Instead, North Carolina will first roll out its own […]
One AI module faked 86% of a pipeline’s accuracy gains by feeding another the answers
A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system is built to answer strictly from the documents it retrieves. But when engineers optimize these AI pipelines end-to-end, the reader module can learn a shortcut: instead of relying on retrieved evidence, it starts answering from its own internal memory — while the system’s overall accuracy keeps climbing. This is the […]
Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users add context to songs, podcasts, and audiobook picks
Spotify today announced an expansion of its recently released User Notes feature. While User Notes are limited to songs, the new Playlist Notes also let users add context to podcast episodes and audiobooks in their playlists. Here are the details. ’Capture a memory, share a recommendation, or explain why a pick made the cut’ Last […]