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Alex Cranz

Alex Cranz

Former Tech Editor

Former Tech Editor

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    The next next thing in AI and ARThe next next thing in AI and AR
    Alex Cranz
    Alex Cranz
    Alex Cranz
    8K on the PlayStation 5 is no more.

    If you want to be technical about it, 8K was never especially viable on the PS5 to begin with, but when the system launched in 2020 TV makers were heavily pushing 8K as the next big thing and Sony wanted to futureproof its pricey platform.

    With a PS5 Pro coming soon, and likely supporting more robust 8K, removing 8K claims off the PS5 box isn’t a surprise.

    Alex Cranz
    Alex Cranz
    Even iPhone thieves and scammers can have a tough day at work.

    Journalist Veronica de Souza had her phone stolen and immediately replaced it, but the thieves very much wanted her to unlock her old iPhone as it was effectively useless without her password.

    So they asked her to unlock. Repeatedly.

    Alex Cranz
    Alex Cranz
    Microsoft isn’t gatekeeping real time translation on Windows.

    Instead of being stuck in Teams or another Microsoft app the new translation feature will be “available across any video calling app, any entertainment app, translated locally across the NPU.”

    That’s great because in the one demo we’ve seen so far it seemed to do a very impressive job of translating everything said in real time, no human translator required.

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    Alex Cranz
    Alex Cranz
    Amtrak needs help building better Wi-Fi.

    In a press release festooned with enough emoji to confuse it with a X post from a cryptobro, American’s major passenger train company announced it wants to figure out how to get high speed Wi-Fi blanketing its Northeast Corridor.

    Companies that want to pitch it on ideas to improve the Wi-Fi can fill out a questionaire that requires Google Chrome but looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator.