ZDNET editors are on the ground in Cupertino to cover the'Surprise and shine' event live. Apple's annual hardware event takes place today, Sept. 9, at 10 a.m. It'll be CEO John Ternus' first event in his new role, as Tim Cook has officially stepped down. The industry has been rife with rumors for months about what today's event will bring, including Apple's first foldable iPhone, rumored to be called Ultra, and even a pair of smart glasses. What's for certain, though, are the company's standard releases: a new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, though the company may delay the base iPhone 18 for now. There's also the new Apple Watch 12, but whether you should upgrade depends on a few factors.

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Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design--and a proprietary material--can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging. An ambitious chip startup that has spent more than seven years quietly trying to redesign the architecture for computer memory has just come out of stealth mode and believes its new approach can help ease the global memory-chip shortage --provided it can produce its technology at scale. Kepler Computing, a San Jose, California-based startup founded in 2018 by a team of physicists and computer scientists, says it has developed a new architecture for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that directly addresses some of the chip supply bottlenecks that are constraining the computing market. While chipmakers typically rely on expensive extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) to shrink the transistors on a chip, thereby packing more technology into the same amount of space, Kepler claims that its "3D stacking" approach and a proprietary new material allow it to increase density without relying on EUV at all--and it can work with existing semiconductor fabrication plants. Kepler says it has made similar gains for the high-speed cache memory typically used in CPUs, GPUs, and XPUs.

Instacart has launched Clementine, its own AI shopping assistant, which it says was designed to tackle the hardest parts of grocery shopping: deciding what to cook while staying within budget. Clementine, which is now available across North America on the Instacart Marketplace, understands natural language like other AI chatbots. You can tell it that you need "to make a high-protein easy dinner for two," and it will respond with a recipe that comes with a list of items you can add to your cart with a tap. The company says Clementine's responses will be based on what's currently available in your chosen store location, so you won't end up considering a recipe that you can't get ingredients for. If you already have some items in the ingredients list, you can remove them before adding the rest to your cart.

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