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Bose is selling wired USB-C earbuds with active noise cancellation for $99. They have no battery, drawing power from your phone, and they output a fixed 24-bit 48kHz digital signal. Preorders are open now, shipping October 15.
Simon Leviev says his app Safe Love will protect women from romance fraud. The Online Dating and Discovery Association has written to Apple and Google asking them to refuse to list any dating app he fronts. The interesting part is that neither store has a rule built for this question.
Georgetown and University of Washington researchers had 331 people watch a car accident, then read an AI summary of it a day or two later. One altered detail dropped accurate recall from 83.6% to 44.8%, and being told the summary was AI written made no difference at all.
A federal court rewrote Amazon’s FTC settlement payout in September, lifting the per customer cap from $51 to $200. From October 1, automatic payments start reaching people who used 11 to 20 Prime benefits in a year, a group left out of every earlier round.
Noise cameras pair an array of microphones with an automated plate reader, and at least ten US jurisdictions have deployed or piloted one. New York alone logged 15,994 noise events in a single year. The minimum fine there is $800.
Eye Tracking turns your gaze into a pointer and Dwell Control turns a pause into a tap. It runs entirely on device, works on any iPhone 12 or newer, and most people have never opened the menu it lives in.
A San Diego jury awarded Taction Technology $5,721,961,750 over the Taptic Engine, the largest US patent damages figure on record. Apple is appealing, and every comparable mega verdict of the last decade ended up smaller or gone entirely.
Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell with a Sentry monitor on a separate BlueField-4 chip to keep rogue AI agents inside their boundaries.
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion and make her its chief scientist. Here is what world models mean for the chip race with Nvidia.
Two trailers wearing Nvidia and PlusAI logos were taken from a Newark, California warehouse. The thieves opened the doors half a mile later and found 20 tons of test ballast. The trailers were back the same day.