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Samsung Galaxy Ring case leaks, and it looks like a techy engagement ring box

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The Samsung Galaxy Ring is popping up everywhere as it gears up for launch. We’re learning more about Samsung’s latest wellness device every day, and now, thanks to a notable leaker, we know what its charging case (allegedly) looks like.  The Samsung Galaxy Ring will likely officially debut at Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked , which historically occurs between June and August, but it’s already been teased, and we even tried on a very early version back in February . Since then, details have been dropping left and right, and this latest leak gives us our best look yet at the ring’s charging case.  Notable leaker Ice Universe posted this render on Chinese social media site Weibo, revealing an engagement-ring-style box with a hinge mechanic. You can check it out in full in this link here . (Image credit: Samsung) It looks similar to the case used by Samsung for the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro , except instead of depressed wells for the earbuds to magnetically sit in, we’ve

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, June 17 (game #106)

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Monday's Strands is not the most difficult one ever, but you still might find a few hints to be helpful. If that's the case, scroll down. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my  Wordle today ,  NYT Connections today  and  Quordle today  pages for hints and answers for those games.  SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #106) - hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands? • Today's NYT Strands theme is… Picking up the pieces NYT Strands today (game #106) - hint #2 - clue words Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. SHIP BARD POOL STUB STIR SNOOP NYT Strands today (game #106) - hint #3 - spangram What is a hint for today's spangram? • Game night NYT Strands today (game #106) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches? •

'Our models are preferred by human graders': How Apple's foundation models are coming on top of established rivals — On-device or Server-based responses indicate Apple is already competitive

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Apple Intelligence, perhaps the highlight of this year's WWDC, is tightly integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, and includes advanced generative models specialized for everyday tasks like writing, text refinement, summarizing notifications, creating images, and automating app interactions. The system includes a 3-billion-parameter on-device language model and a larger server-based model running on Apple silicon servers via Private Cloud Compute (PCC). Apple says these foundation models, along with a coding model for Xcode and a diffusion model for visual expression, support a wide range of user and developer needs. The company also adheres to Responsible AI principles, ensuring tools empower users, represent diverse communities, and protect privacy through on-device processing and secure PCC. Apple says its models are trained on licensed and publicly available data, with filters to remove personal information and low-quality content. The company employs a hybrid

Nvidia could team up with Taiwanese CPU firm to produce rival to Qualcomm Snapdragon X and Apple M-series — report suggests 2025 will be the year Windows on Arm growth goes in overdrive

In 2016, Microsoft granted Qualcomm the exclusive rights to develop and produce Arm chips for Windows. With that deal set to expire, and with a big push on for Arm-based laptops capable of running AI apps, other firms are developing their own chips. According to an exclusive report from Reuters , which spoke to three sources familiar with the plans, Taiwanese chip design giant MediaTek will begin making its own Arm-based CPUs for release in 2025. MediaTek has a long history of designing and developing a wide range of system-on-chip solutions for various electronic devices and is an obvious fit. Rather than creating its own CPU architecture based on the Arm instruction set, the chip will reportedly use Arm's ready-made designs. Taking on Apple This approach can significantly speed up development, Reuters explained. “Executives at Arm have said one of its customers used the ready-made components to build a chip in roughly nine months for a design that is already complete, whic

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, June 16 (game #105)

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Sunday's Strands puzzle is a relatively straightforward one, but you may still need some hints for it if you're not familiar with the subject in question. You'll find some below if that's the case. (Or if it's not the case; they're below either way!) Want more word-based fun? Then check out my  Wordle today ,  NYT Connections today  and  Quordle today  pages for hints and answers for those games.  SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #105) - hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands? • Today's NYT Strands theme is… It’s in the bag NYT Strands today (game #105) - hint #2 - clue words Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. MINE CHEAT DOPE PUNCH MATCH LONE NYT Strands today (game #105) - hint #3 - spangram What is a hint for today's spangram? • Brewing up NYT Stran

Obscure monitor vendor pips Samsung, Apple, LG to produce world's first 5K touchscreen display — Alogic's Clarity Touch works with a stylus and can even charge your laptop

Alogic has announced the Clarity Touch 5K, a studio-quality 27-inch display that also functions as a hub to declutter workspaces by connecting to workstations with just one cable. The 27-inch IPS display with QD backlight offers a stunning 5120x2880 resolution, the same as Apple’s Studio Display but with touch baked in. It delivers brightness levels that range from 350 nits (minimum) to 400 nits (typical), providing vibrant and accurate color reproduction, and supports 10-point multitouch and stylus input for precision work. The new screen’s color accuracy is notable, with 130% NTSC, 97% DCI-P3, 100% sRGB, and 99% Adobe RGB coverage. This level of precision is crucial for professional applications requiring exact color matching. Plenty of ports Clarity Touch 5K’s design features a sleek combination of ABS, glass, and aluminum, weighing in at 7.6kg and measuring 624mm x 225mm x 555mm. It is VESA mount compatible and includes two 5W integrated speakers and an audio out option. The

Apple quietly released a new operating system that almost nobody noticed — unnamed OS surfaces in Private Cloud Compute blog as Apple goes ballistic on AI

By now you’ll be very familiar with most, if not all, of the artificial intelligence, sorry “Apple Intelligence,” features it announced at its WWDC 2024 - but during the reveal, the company went to great lengths to talk about the steps it was taking to safeguard user privacy. To back up Apple Intelligence, Apple introduced Private Cloud Compute (PCC). This cloud intelligence system extends Apple's security and privacy standards to cloud-based AI processing. PCC makes sure that personal user data sent to PCC remains inaccessible to anyone other than the user, including Apple. In a blog post discussing Private Cloud Compute and how it works to keep user data safe, Apple said, “Built with custom Apple silicon and a hardened operating system designed for privacy, we believe PCC is the most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale.” Tailored to support LLM inference workloads Yes, Apple says it has written a hardened operating system. The company