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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Software announcements are usually much less exciting than hardware ones, but Samsung’s rollout of its One UI 7 beta today, based on Android 15, might be the best (and biggest) news for Galaxy users lately. Also: Forget the Ray-Ban Metas: Samsung’s upcoming smart glasses are the wearables I’ve been waiting for Part of the reason is that the software was actually expected to launch months ago, closer to the timeline of Google and…

Anna V. Ponomareva/Getty Images Anyone who’s ever worked on image or video editing on MacOS knows how good Apple displays can be. They are clean and crisp and rarely have issues, such as pixelation or screen tearing. For the most part, the colors look fairly accurate. Or do they? Also: I was a Final Cut Pro diehard until DaVinci Resolve won me over with these 3 features To the untrained eye, the MacOS default display profile…

Aitor Diago/Getty Images It’s a common belief that the law often has to play catchup with technology, and this remains apparent today as the latter continues to evolve at a fast pace.  With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), for instance, some important legal questions still need to be addressed.  First, policymakers must decide how to best balance the use of data to train AI models with the need to protect the rights…

Amazon/ZDNET The holiday season is upon us, and that means joy, cheer, a monologue from Linus (Peanuts, not Torvalds), and gifts. If you have an open-source fan on your list, what do you get them? Socks? A tie? A tin of various popcorn flavors? Or you can skip those gifts and consider, instead, something from my list of unofficially sanctioned open-source holiday gifts for 2024 (and beyond). Also: The best holiday tech gifts under $25…

кирилл поляшенко/Getty Images In October, OpenAI integrated ChatGPT Search into ChatGPT, promising an experience in which users could browse the web and access the latest news from its news partners and sites that have not blocked OpenAI’s web crawler. A new review by Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism shows that the process may not be as efficient as it sounds.  The Tow Center performed a test to determine how well publisher content is represented…

Jose A. Bernat Bacete/Getty Images Social media platform Bluesky is relatively new, but it’s been growing exponentially as another platform experiences an X-odus. According to Altmetric, Bluesky may already favor a particular community: researchers.  Also: If you convert to a domain name on Bluesky, you MUST do this right away On Tuesday, the data company, which specializes in tracking how published work gets shared, posted on Bluesky that it has been monitoring the platform since late October….

AWS aims to meet these ever-intense demands with Trn2 instances, which use 16 connected Trainium2 chips to provide 20.8 peak petaflops of compute. According to AWS, this makes the platform ideal for training and deploying LLMs with 100 billion-plus parameters, and offers a 30% to 40% better price/performance than the current generation of GPU-based instances. “That is performance that you cannot get anywhere else,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said onstage at this week’s AWS re:Invent…

David Gewirtz/ZDNET Of all the computer gear I own, my AirPods Pro have been the least portable. No, that’s not a typo. Let me explain. I loved my first set of AirPods Pro, even after I dropped them into a cup of coffee. They’ve continued working for more than a year since then. I recently bought a pair of 2nd generation AirPods Pro over Black Friday weekend. (You can still save $80 on them if…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The iRobot Roomba Combo 10 Max robot vacuum and mop is available for $1,400. This multifunctional Roomba vacuums exhaustively, barely leaving a crumb or strand of pet hair behind; it mops very well, and it keeps your carpets dry by lifting the mop pad completely above the robot. While iRobot is a renowned robot vacuum brand, its app is not as intuitive as those from other robot vacuum makers The Roomba Combo…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Super smooth and highly responsive app The tiny carry case can be attached to a keyring for easy transportation Needs the supplied USB-C extension cable to connect to most ruggedized smartphones What’s the deal? Amazon is offering a $50 coupon for the Thermal Master P2 camera, lowering its price to about $200. Regular readers will know that I am a big fan of thermal cameras. They are cool and give you a…