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ZDNET’s key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE starts at $649, with 128GB of storage and AI features included. Large 6.7-inch AMOLED display and an enduring 4,700mAh battery are the top two strengths. At its price, the S24 FE faces stiff competition from Google, OnePlus, and Samsung itself. more buying choices With the fall season in full swing, I’ve recently been catching up with more friends and family. It’s during these times when I’m most…

Lance Whitney/ZDNET Imagine an AI model that can work with a computer all on its own. Well, imagine no longer because such an AI has arrived. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that the latest generation of its Claude AI model can use a computer — just like you and I do. Dubbed Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the AI has surfaced in beta mode for developers to use via an API. Touted by Anthropic as the “first frontier AI…

iRobot The Roomba brand has become synonymous with a great robot vacuum. However, the big expense can be intimidating for a new robot vacuum user looking for their first model. Now, Roomba-maker iRobot has announced a new version of its affordable Essential line featuring hands-free cleaning capabilities and twice the cleaning power.  The redesigned Roomba Combo 2 Essential and Roomba Vac 2 Essential each feature iRobot’s AutoEmpty dock and a new bumper design to navigate…

iRobot The Roomba brand has become synonymous with a great robot vacuum. However, the big expense can be intimidating for a new robot vacuum user looking for their first model. Now, Roomba-maker iRobot has announced a new version of its affordable Essential line featuring hands-free cleaning capabilities and twice the cleaning power.  The redesigned Roomba Combo 2 Essential and Roomba Vac 2 Essential each feature iRobot’s AutoEmpty dock and a new bumper design to navigate…

What is the best Mac VPN in 2024? Our top Mac VPN is NordVPN. NordVPN isn’t the cheapest, but you get what you pay for — an intuitive and attractive user interface, an easy-to-use accompanying mobile app, rapid speeds, and a massive server network. That’s not to mention the wealth of additional security features and optional cyber-insurance coverage.  ZDNET authors have been testing VPN software for years. We have kept a finger on the pulse…

Meta If you’ve ever lost access to a Facebook or Instagram account, you know it can be frustrating to prove that you’re really you. Meta is hoping to make regaining access to your account a lot easier and faster by bringing back a technology it recently did away with. Several years ago, Facebook shut down its facial recognition system over privacy concerns. At the time, the company said that the “many specific instances where facial…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past year, it’s that generative AI is playing a pivotal role in technological advancements, including where people spend much of their day — automobiles. Today, Google and Qualcomm have officially partnered to leverage their chips and generative AI capabilities to help developers create more enriched automotive experiences. Also: Qualcomm’s new chipset that will power flagship Android phones makes the iPhone seem outdated On Tuesday, at the chipmaker’s Snapdragon…

“The rapid expansion of compute infrastructure to support training for genAI has created a major electrical power availability challenge,” said a Gartner research note on emerging technologies for energy-efficient generative AI compute systems by researchers Gaurav Gupta, Menglin Cao, Alan Priestley, Akhil Singh, and Joseph Unsworth. This means those running AI data centers must find solutions to the problem now to mitigate the challenges for their operations, which include increased costs, insufficient power availability, and…

IBM Guardium Quantum Safe Another key module is Guardium Quantum Safe, which is designed to help customers protect their sensitive data and harden their environments against quantum-enabled cyber risks. “The Guardium Quantum Safe module provides users with ongoing comprehensive visibility into, and greater control over, the cryptography used across their IT environment so they can prioritize vulnerabilities and create a targeted remediation roadmap,” IBM stated. The module helps organizations manage their cryptographic security systems by applying…

Ethan Miller/Getty Images Open source and AI have an uneasy relationship. AI can’t exist without open source, but few companies want to open source their AI programs or large language models (LLM). Except, notably, for IBM, which previously open-sourced its Granite models. Now, Big Blue is doubling down on its open-source AI with the release of its latest Granite AI 3.0 models under the Apache 2.0 license.    IBM has done this using pretraining data…