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Xiaomi is now slated to launch a Pro version of its RedmiBook (2025) during a major product launch scheduled for early March. The laptop is thought to launch as the OEM's first ever AI PC thanks to its up-to-date Intel platform. The PC is also tipped to ship with a long-lasting battery.

It's official. Visual Intelligence is finally coming to the iPhone 15 Pro models. And it's all thanks to the newly launched iPhone 16E.

The NEO Gamma is a humanoid robot designed to assist owners with house chores, provide assistance to the physically-challenged, and even operate as a mobile sound system.

Unlike other providers, HIX.AI does not require site log-on or account creation to use popular AI chatbots such as DeepSeek. This approach eliminates privacy issues stemming from sharing private email addresses or phone numbers to create accounts.

The latest xAI large language models have topped the benchmark charts due to their ability to search the Internet for information, reason through complex problems, and process input with a context window of one million tokens. Grok 3 models have beat OpenAI GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 on most benchmarks.

The infrastructure will cover 50,000 kilometers, connecting the five continents with the 24-fiber-pair cable. By the end of the decade, the subsea cable is expected to be operational.

A new generative AI model from Microsoft called Muse can understand game physics and controller inputs to generate gameplay. It has been trained with over a billion images and controller actions, showing impressive results.

The Humane Ai Pin has already reached the end of its lifespan not even one year after its launch. An update releasing on 28 February is set to remove almost all its functions, including its entire AI features. HP is acquiring what’s left of the company for $116 million.

The open-ear design of the LolliClip allows users to hear their surroundings for safety while operating a vehicle, but can also reduce surrounding noise with active noise cancellation when desired.

Elon Musk’s xAI is showcasing the latest Grok AI iteration on February 17th as the world-richest CEO promises integration with Tesla cars. Things will kick off with a live demo.

In a world that brings together high-end technology and classic puzzles, AI Confidential allows players to take advantage of an intuitive emoji-driven dialog system to solve everyone's problems as a robo technician. There is no release date yet, but interested parties can add the game to their wishlists to be notified.

Gamers are helping to train an AI robot - together with MiniROV, gaming is contributing to the exploration of unknown marine life in the deep sea. The innovative project cleverly combines citizen science and gamification to advance marine research.

A study of a 64-year-old woman, who was paralyzed on the left side of her body seven years ago following a stroke, found improvement in her walking ability after a month of rehabilitation using the Wandercraft Atalante X exoskeleton.

CheckMag For people with complete paralysis, the dream of walking independently has often remained just that—a dream. But researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have turned that dream into reality with their latest innovation: the WalkON Suit F1. This groundbreaking wearable robot not only assists with walking but also walks to the user, allowing them to suit up directly from their wheelchair without assistance.

Deep Research allows the Perplexity chatbot to search the Internet for information and think through solving prompts step-by-step, resulting in more accurate answers to complex questions.

Project Starlight leverages the power of generative AI technologies to upscale low-resolution videos to higher resolutions. The AI can add details to objects that are not present in the original video from its understanding of what those objects ought to look like.

After AMD today dropped details about the launch of its next-gen RDNA4 GPUs, its head of consumer and gaming marketing, Frank Azor, shot down rumours of a high RAM variant of the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU. However, he seems to have left the door open for speculation of a higher-spec version of RDNA 4.

Nvidia is planning on making a return to the smartphone chip market through a strategic partnership with MediaTek. The companies are reportedly developing a powerful mobile SoC with advanced AI capabilities. A strong new player could shake up this market.

The current CEO has laid out the roadmap for OpenAI's AI LLM development for GPT-4.5 and GPT 5, with the goal of simplifying model selection for users and developers.

OpenAI has reportedly opted for TSMC's 3nm factories to produce its AI chips, despite previous reports naming Samsung Foundry as one of the more likely candidates.

The next generation of gaming laptops will arrive in March, but pre-orders will go live starting February 25. For now, it is unclear if all the four GPUs will be available for pre-order from day one.

Emeet touts its latest series of webcams as 'Tiny but Mighty' options for streamers, vloggers or workers with dual "AI-powered" 4K lenses, powered by Sony sensors that go up to 1/2.55 inches in size in the higher-end Piko Plus (or Piko+). They are touted to deliver clear, sharp and detailed footage with superior face-tracking and background separation. The Piko series also comes with fun features such as a 'cool panda' magnetic privacy shield.

The EaseUS YouTube Transcript Generator provides an AI-generated transcript of the entire video that can be copied and used for free with one click. The service supports over 100 languages and provides millisecond-accurate timestamps.

The experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro AI has an enormous two-million-token input window, allowing the AI to ingest enormous amounts of text for analysis and summary. The AI is tuned for handling complex prompts and coding requests.

Acer has announced that it will unleash a new 16-inch gaming laptop on the market from the second quarter of 2025. The Predator Helios Neo 16 AI is the only OLED-capable machine of its series, and will boast up to RTX 5070 Ti graphics to go with its Intel Arrow Lake HX platform. It is backed to revolutionize the gaming experience in its price-tier with its eponymous AI capabilities.

The battery-powered, Apple MFi-certified Questyle M18i portable DAC can connect to audio sources by cable or Bluetooth. PCM 384kHz, DSD256, and Hi-Res LDAC audio streams are supported along with 4.4 mm balanced headphones.

DeepSeek might have stirred up controversy when it came public, but automakers are proving to be among the first to embrace the 'low-budget' AI offering. Two Chinese EV makers have announced they are integrating the latest AI tech in their cars.

Sibel Health has partnered with Maruho to commercialize an anti-itching wearable designed for atopic dermatitis sufferers. The AI wearable actively monitors for signs of pruritus and activates haptic feedback to reduce the urge to scratch.

OpenAI has opened access to ChatGPT search to all without annoying log-in requirements. The chatbot can search the web for real-time information to provide timely answers.

The move aims to create a workforce with AI skills while allowing students, faculty, and staff to benefit from a more personalized, effective college education. Free AI training and certifications will be provided, along with access to apprenticeships.

In addition to smaller changes such as credit card information autofill, certificate transparency enforcement, or additional language support for Firefox Translations, the latest version of Mozilla's web browser comes with AI chatbot access. This optional feature rolls out progressively, so it might not be available for many users yet.

In a world where online news and notifications often become overwhelming, Opera Air comes to help its users slow everything down and focus on their well-being instead. The list of features includes breathing and neck exercises, meditation sessions, guided full body scans, and more.

The new feature allows ChatGPT to search the Internet for information, gather all the information it needs for complex analysis, and produce well-written reports.

Hugging Face engineer Matthew Carrigan recently revealed on X a method to locally run DeepSeek's advanced R1 model with 8-bit quantization, eliminating the need for expensive GPUs, for a reported cost of $6,000. The key? Having a lot of memory as opposed to vast computing power reserves.

Nvidia has shown off how its shiny new GeForce RTX 5090 fares in DeepSeek. It convincingly outperforms the RX 7900 XTX, as does the last-gen RTX 4090, which previously lost to the RDNA 3 flagship in AMD's in-house test.

Apple Intelligence is touted as iOS 18's killer feature - even if its availability is currently limited in various regions for various reasons. In China, one of the main problems involves finding a local replacement for the OpenAI partnership that enables the service in the US - however, that has apparently changed with the release of DeepSeek.

Pebble has readied the Pebble Flow for a spring 2025 launch as the world's first RV that can reverse charge the EVs towing it, be driven remotely like an RC toy, and deploy itself at camp sites.

OpenAI's latest o3-mini large language model is faster and smarter than the o1-mini predecessor. The model is available for free use by all ChatGPT account holders.

It can be made even cheaper. PhD students from Berkeley have created an AI that supposedly is comparable to DeepSeek's R1-Zero model. Allegedly, the entire AI has been developed for a grand total of just $30.

CheckMag There are a number of tools which allow you to leverage your own AI image generator without relying on cloud services, which are often paid and come with a whole host of limitations. However, Invoke AI lets you run a range of models and tools including Stable Diffusion, enabling you to generate pretty much anything you can think of. Decent results can be achieved with modest hardware and a relatively recent GPU. Here's how to get started.

While not using the country as its main base of operations in Europe, DeepSeek still has to comply with local data protection regulations. As a consequence, the Chinese AI company needs to provide all the details on how it handles Irish users' data to the local Data Protection Commission (DPC).

Microsoft is quick to jump on DeepSeek R1 integration for developers as it is bringing a distilled version of the AI to Snapdragon X powered systems. This will allow developers to more effectively create AI-powered applications that run on device.

Just off the cusp of Deepseek's release, Alibaba's latest version of Qwen 2.5 Max has provided better test results than all other AI models, claiming the throne from the fledgling Deepseek.

AMD has posted some first-party benchmarks of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX running a DeepSeek model locally. Initially, Team Red has a decent lead, which quickly fades once the number of parameters goes up.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, initially planned to develop artificial intelligence on an open-source basis. However, no source code for current OpenAI models has been made available thus far. DeepSeek from China takes a completely different approach and offers DeepSeek-R1 under the MIT license. Supposedly, this new AI model is even on par with ChatGPT.

A recent report suggests that Meta is working on at least two new pairs of smart glasses, which are expected to be released in 2025. The first product, currently known as Supernova 2, is designed with Oakley and aimed at athletes. The second wearable, Hypernova, is a high-end offering with an integrated display.