Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The Android phone market isn’t as competitive as it was a few years ago, but there are a plethora of options to choose from. You can get a slab phone, a book-style foldable, a flip phone, and phones with physical keyboards. Sure, iPhones dominate with…
The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lidar sensors it calls “Rev8,” all of…
Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — thinking that he shared on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, which TDK Ventures co-hosted. It’s a theory he’s been working to prove since 2019, when he founded the corporate venture arm of the Japanese electronics giant, which…
When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday — canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just not come to the airport — people were flabbergasted but also bereft. For all its indignities, Spirit was cheap. Then one of them had an idea. Hunter Peterson, a voice actor with frequent flyer…
You’ve seen this comic before: An anthropomorphic dog sits smiling, surrounded by flames, and says, “This is fine.” It’s become one of the most durable memes of the past decade, and now AI startup Artisan seems to have incorporated it into an ad campaign — an ad for which KC Green, the artist who created…
Tuxedo InfinityBook Max 15 pros and cons Pros Sturdy aluminum chassis Brilliant display with 300Hz refresh rate Solid productivity performance Cons Variable battery life Make sure you pick the right keyboard layout Laptop can get pricey Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Tuxedo Computers is a German company that’s been making computers preinstalled…
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors. The study was published this week in Science and comes from a research team led by physicians and computer scientists at…
Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Siri typically serves as my voice assistant when I’m driving and my iPhone is connected via Apple CarPlay. And that’s fine for interactive tasks such as playing music, getting driving directions, setting a reminder, and calling or texting someone. But Siri often stumbles…
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. There are few things in life more annoying than two unskippable 90-second ads every five minutes in a YouTube video. If you’re ready to leave ads in the past, you might be interested in a YouTube Premium subscription. YouTube offers two tiers:…