Apple began its 50th anniversary celebrations at New York’s Grand Central Station on Friday and is reportedly continuing them in China tomorrow.

We’re again expecting a live performance by a popular singer, and Apple retail head Deirdre O’Brien has been spotted in the country …

Apple famously says that it likes to look forward rather than back, but the company still couldn’t resist marking its 50th year in business.

Apple’s 50th birthday will be on April 1, with the

Eleven tech giants and major retailers have signed up to a new anti-scam initiative ahead of a United Nations global fraud summit.

The Industry Accord Against Online Scams & Fraud recognizes the growing use of AI by criminal gangs to create more convincing scams, and pledges cooperation between the companies to combat this …

reports 11 signatories so far.

Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, Pinterest, Target, Levi’s Strauss & Co., and Match Group, the owner of Tinder and

One of the biggest mysteries ahead of the MacBook Neo launch was the price. We’d seen various estimates in the $599 to $799 range, and while we’d certainly hoped for that lower-end figure, experienced Apple watchers weren’t necessarily expecting it.

Reaction to the price was universally positive, all the more so as it breaks the $500 barrier for education users. School and college students can buy the machine for just $499 …

That’

Aqara just announced two major additions to its smart home security lineup today. They have released the which is the company’s first Matter-certified camera, along with the . I always look forward to seeing what Aqara does next, as they have been a great way to build out a low-cost smart home for years. These two devices bring so many needed features to the Apple Home ecosystem.

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YouTube creator DirectorFeng is back with another ASMR-themed video in which they attempt to upgrade the storage on a new Apple device. Watch it below.

Last year, we covered DirectorFeng’s attempt to upgrade the iPhone 17 Pro Max to 2TB of storage, which ran into NAND incompatibility issues.

Still, the ASMR-themed teardown video made for an interesting watch, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Now, DirectorFeng is back with a new “immersive teardown” in which they successfully upgrade

Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping reflections, highlights, and other effects consistent across different viewing angles. Here are the details.

A bit of context

While the concept of latent space in machine learning is not exactly new, it has become more popular than ever in recent years, with the explosion of AI models based on the transformer architecture and, more recently, world models.

In a nutshell (and running the risk of being slightly imprecise to explain

Apple unveiled and launched seven new products in the first half of March, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more. Two weeks after the first product news, Apple returned with one more surprise announcement.

On Monday, March 2, Apple started off the month with two product announcements.

The $599 iPhone 17e replaces the iPhone 16e with 2x the storage, faster performance, and the magic of MagSafe. There’s also a new “soft pink” color in addition to

After months of testing on Android, Meta is bringing guest chats to beta testers on iOS and the web. Here’s how it will work.

As spotted by , some WhatsApp users on iOS TestFlight and the web beta are gaining access to guest chats.

The feature, which first appeared for Android beta testers last August, lets WhatsApp users start conversations with people who do not have an account.

With guest chats, users can generate a chat link from the “Invite a friend” section and share it via SMS