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Eighteen countries, including the UK, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, are exempted from the AI export caps. The Biden administration had previously banned the export of some powerful AI chips to China, Russia, and other adversaries in rules from 2022 and 2023. But other countries friendly to the US, including Mexico, Israel, India, and Saudi Arabia, would be subject to the quotas. The export limits would take effect 120 days from the…

Google/ZDNET Google has done a pretty good job with accessibility features on Pixel phones for the past few years. With TalkBack, display customizations, Simple View, and more, Google’s flagship phones have come a long way. But the accessibility doesn’t stop there. If you have vision impairments and like to take photos, the Guided Frame feature can help.  Also: This hidden Pixel camera feature makes your photos more vibrant This feature uses voice prompts to help…

Whether you’re looking to upgrade your home theater setup with a high-end OLED screen or pick up a budget-friendly TV for your bedroom, there are tons of high-quality options to choose from. The best TVs you can buy right now offer a great balance between features, screen size, connectivity, and, of course, price.  Also: The best Samsung TVs Big brands like Samsung and Sony offer premium models with features like object-tracking sound, OLED panels, and…

Lance Whitney/ZDNET Meta’s Instagram is prepping the launch of its own video editor. In a Monday post, Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed the details about Edits, a free app that offers a host of tools and settings to help creators spruce up their videos. Now available for preorder, the app is expected to launch for the iPhone on March 13 with an Android release coming soon after that. Based on Mosseri’s description and the App…

Zhou Yibao on Weibo A new foldable phone is about to hit the market, and it may be as thin as a phone can possibly be. ‘World’s thinnest foldable’ Oppo is billing its upcoming Find N5 (it will likely be the OnePlus Open 2 when it hits the US market) as the world’s thinnest foldable. That title currently belongs to the Magic V3 from Honor, which sits at just 4.35 mm unfolded. For comparison, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Pixel 9…

ZDNET The idea of querying a remote LLM makes my spine tingle — and not in a good way. When I need to do a spot of research via AI, I opt for a local LLM, such as Ollama. If you haven’t yet installed Ollama, you can read about it my guide on how to install an LLM on MacOS (and why you should). You can also install Ollama on Linux and Windows, and, given that…

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Microsoft is now automatically rolling out Windows 11 24H2 to all eligible and supported PCs, whether you like it or not. In a recent status update to its Windows 11 24H2 known issues and notifications page, the company announced that it has reached a new stage in the phased rollout of version 24H2. All eligible computers running the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2 will now gradually…

“Connectivity Link is utilizing the Gateway API, which was introduced by the Kubernetes community a little over one year ago, as well as integrating with different cloud service providers’ DNS solutions,” Chris Ferreira, senior principal technical product manager at Red Hat, explained to Network World. Red Hat Connectivity Link is not a mesh, Ferreira emphasized. It’s an Envoy plugin through which Red Hat is able to integrate different capabilities beyond the standard features of an…

ZDNET Turns out, you really can make a competition out of almost anything. A recent The New York Times piece peeled back the cover on the e-sport you didn’t know you were missing: the Microsoft Excel World Championship. The world’s greatest Excel-er Last month in Las Vegas, 12 men ran through a pro sports-style entrance tunnel at an e-sports arena, took the stage in front of a cheering crowd, sat at desktop computers, perused a…

ZDNET Open-source  artificial intelligence (AI) has reached another milestone — and the cost differences it represents could shake up the industry. On par with o1 On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek announced the release of R1, the full version of its newest open-source reasoning model, which the company launched in preview in November. The company noted that R1 beats or is on par with OpenAI’s o1 in several math, coding, and reasoning benchmarks. Also: $450 and 19 hours is all it takes…