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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Former Weekend Editor

Former Weekend Editor

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    Some good news from Intel.

    The company says it was able to boot up and load operating systems on Intel 18A-based processors, including Panther Lake AI PC chips. 18A is part of Intel’s roadmap to regain its footing in the processor market.

    The good news comes not a moment too soon, as the company recently confirmed that crashing 13th- and- 14th-gen processors are unfixable, then laid off 15,000 employees last week.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Gemini may be rolling out to personal Gmail accounts on Android.

    You may need to close and reopen the app to see it, but according to Android expert Mishaal Rahman, Gemini is showing up for non-Google Workspace users.

    Gemini can do things like summarize emails, suggest next steps, or draft replies. Before now, you’ve needed a Google AI premium subscription or a Workspace account for access to the AI assistant.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Disney Plus now takes you to Iceland.

    In the Apple Vision Pro, that is. Disney Plus has rolled out a National Geographic edition virtual environment for its visionOS app that lets you watch movies in a snowy corridor in Iceland’s Thingvellir National Park.

    The environment uses “3D models captured on-site using photogrammetry,” according to Disney’s announcement. When you watch a movie, it turns dark and shows you the Northern Lights!

    A GIF panning across the new environment.
    Sadly, it only works in the Disney Plus app.
    GIF: Disney Plus
    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Google Wallet makes anything a digital pass.

    A new “Everything else” option under “Add to Wallet” is now rolling out to the app that uses AI to process things like concert tickets or insurance cards to make custom digital passes. Before, you could save photos of cards with bar codes or QR codes to the Wallet app — this sounds better.

    In 9to5Google’s example, it successfully recreated a Sam’s Club card, barcode and all.