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How to get this Siri camera upgrade for your iPad before its public release

Apple users willing to install beta versions of its OS updates can get their hands on upcoming features sooner than most, as long as they're comfortable contending with the possibility of buggy software or apps breaking.…

DeepMind's ultra-powerful AI for genome mapping wows scientists

This variant had previously confounded researchers because it lies in a ‘gene desert’ nowhere near protein-coding sequences. That discovery had involved gene-editing and other sophisticated molecular biology techniques…

Starlink Mini 2 makes its debut with built-in battery and thinner design

But if you're really going to go off-grid, the latter is the only thing that's going to work. Add Android Police on Google Add as Preferred Source That said, Starlink has become the go-to service for satellite…

Anthropic tiptoes into MS Office territory

On Tuesday, the Claudefather announced Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Data, and promised the imminent arrival of Claude Meetings. These artifact types join existing ones – Docs, Slides, Design, and Motion…

NVIDIA shareholders are suing the company and CEO Jensen Huang

The unfolding drama around NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a woman now accused of being a spy for the Chinese government may be getting its first courtroom chapter. A shareholder in the computing giant has sued…

Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions

Seagate doesn’t think hybrid drives are done just yet. On Tuesday, the company announced the launch of the new FireCuda Forge line of storage drives. The new drives combine the high capacity of a traditional plattered…

How SCSKiller is trying to fix shader stuttering in PC games

At least, that was until I downloaded Shader Compilation Stutter Killer ( SCSKiller ). This free app promises to heavily reduce or even completely get rid of shader compilation in modern PC titles. But can this…

Ye olde server consolidation has made Cisco push top-of-rack switching to 100G

The networking giant last week announced the catchily named N9348C8D-H2, a 1U device packing 48 100G SFP-DD ports and eight 400G QSFP-DD uplinks. At the Cisco Live event in Melbourne, Australia, this week, Cisco’s senior…

The US military seems to be getting nervous about the launch supply crunch

Seven of these engines will power the company's Nova Pathfinder rocket, and 14 will fly on the booster of Nova Block 2. Credit: Stoke Space The US military is taking a new approach to prop up commercial launch companies…

These Xiaomi phones are no longer getting support with the latest HyperOS 4 update

Owners of a Xiaomi 17 in China are now receiving the latest HyperOS 4 update, which gives Xiaomi's software a new see-through look that's drawn plenty of comparisons to Apple's Liquid Glass. It began rolling out to the…