Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event in Brooklyn earlier this week debuted seven new devices, from the Galaxy Z Fold7 to the Galaxy Watch8 series. But there weren't any surprises at the end, despite rumors that Samsung would unveil a trifold phone. Sensing disappointment, the company later confirmed that the phone is expected to land in 2025. "I expect we will be able to launch the trifold phone within this year," TM Roh, head of Samsung's mobile business, told The Korea Times. The trifold phone, rumored to be called the Galaxy G Fold, would have a normal screen on the front and two hinges that let you open it up as a tablet-sized screen.

Today's Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved from simple sensing and actuation devices to those with embedded processing and intelligent services, enabling rich collaborations between users and their devices. However, enabling such collaboration becomes challenging when transient devices need to interact with host devices in temporarily visited environments. In such cases, fine-grained access control policies are necessary to ensure secure interactions; however, manually implementing them is often impractical for non-expert users. Moreover, at run-time, the system must automatically configure the devices and enforce such fine-grained access control rules. Additionally, the system must address the heterogeneity of devices. In this paper, we present CollabIoT, a system that enables secure and seamless device collaboration in transient IoT environments. CollabIoT employs a Large language Model (LLM)-driven approach to convert users' high-level intents to fine-grained access control policies. To support secure and seamless device collaboration, CollabIoT adopts capability-based access control for authorization and uses lightweight proxies for policy enforcement, providing hardware-independent abstractions. We implement a prototype of CollabIoT's policy generation and auto configuration pipelines and evaluate its efficacy on an IoT testbed and in large-scale emulated environments. We show that our LLM-based policy generation pipeline is able to generate functional and correct policies with 100% accuracy. At runtime, our evaluation shows that our system configures new devices in ~150 ms, and our proxy-based data plane incurs network overheads of up to 2 ms and access control overheads up to 0.3 ms.

From iPhones to Apple Watches, Apple is known for its incredible range of gadgets. Now, the tech giant is about to launch a brand new product - and there's not long to wait to see it. Tim Cook, CEO at Apple, has revealed that a new device is coming on Wednesday 19 February. He posted a video of a holographic Apple logo on X (formerly Twitter), writing: 'Get ready to meet the newest member of the family. While further details are yet to be announced, the new device is widely rumoured to be Apple's latest budget iPhone SE.

From 325 metres away, your eyes can probably distinguish a person's head from their body – and not much else. But a new laser-based device can create a three-dimensional model of their face. Aongus McCarthy at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and his colleagues built a device that can create detailed three-dimensional images, including ridges and indentations as small as 1 millimetre, from hundreds of metres away. It uses an imaging technique called lidar, emitting pulses of laser light that collide with objects then reflect back into the device. Based on how long each pulse takes to return, lidar can determine an object's shape.

Natalie Nasatka, who says her Apple Watch saved her life, joined'Fox & Friends' to discuss the incident after the near-fatal poisoning. As Apple brings the Apple Vision Pro to market, its first major product category in nine years, the absence of key streaming apps and unconventional design choices cast shadows over its debut. Apple Inc.'s upcoming mixed-reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro, is poised to make waves. It lets you see and interact with virtual worlds using artificial intelligence, voice and gesture control, plus spatial audio. The world's leading video and music streaming services, including Google's YouTube, Spotify and Netflix, are noticeably absent from the device's lineup of supported applications.

Computer systems are becoming increasingly heterogeneous with the emergence of new memory technologies and compute devices. GPUs alongside CPUs have become commonplace and CXL is poised to be a mainstay of cloud systems. The operating system is responsible for managing these hardware resources, requiring modification every time a new device is released. Years of research and development are sunk into tuning the OS for high performance with each new heterogeneous device. With the recent explosion in memory technologies and domain-specific accelerators, it would be beneficial to have an OS that could provide high performance for new devices without significant effort. We propose LLaMaS which can adapt to new devices easily. LLaMaS uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract the useful features of new devices from their textual description and uses these features to make operating system decisions at runtime. Adding support to LLaMaS for a new device is as simple as describing the system and new device properties in plaintext. LLaMaS reduces the burden on system administrators to enable easy integration of new devices into production systems. Preliminary evaluation using ChatGPT shows that LLMs are capable of extracting device features from text and make correct OS decisions based on those features.

From chewing and swallowing food to talking, our tongues are essential for a range of important functions. Now, you can use your tongue for a new function – controlling computers. A bizarre gumshield-like device has been unveiled at the CES technology conference in Las Vegas, which allows you to control devices purely though the movement of your tongue. While this includes basic computers, Augmental, the company behind it, has already synced the device up to a sex toy. Krystina Jackson, a self-proclaimed'sex enthusiast' who has been using the device with her vibrator, said: 'Oh my goodness, this is how it should be.

A new device has been created that can analyse the brainwaves of non-verbal, paralysed patients and turn them into sentences on a computer screen in real time. The'mind-reading' machine is capable of decoding brain activity as a person silently attempts to spell out words phonetically to create full sentences. Experts say their neuroprosthesis speech device has the potential to restore communication to people who cannot speak or type due to paralysis. Previous research had shown that a similar system was able to decode up to 50 words. However, this was limited to a specific vocabulary and the participant had to attempt to speak the words out loud, which required significant effort, given their paralysis.

Microsoft has heralded a'new era' of computing with the launch of new devices in its touchscreen Surface range. The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant has revealed the £1,099 Surface Pro 9, a 2-in-1 detachable with the'power of a laptop and the flexibility of a tablet'. It's also revealed the £999 Surface Laptop 5, a'powerhouse laptop' with all-day battery life, and the £4,699 Surface Studio 2, an update on its all-in-one PC. All three devices run Windows 11 and are compatible with the Surface Slim Pen 2, the firm's stylus for drawing and jotting notes. Microsoft has said the new devices take Windows'into the next era of computing', but an analyst claims the products only show'incremental' updates.

Ten years after introducing "Google Glass," Alphabet Inc. has created a new kind of smart eyeglasses. The company says the wearable computer device can translate different languages in real time. A working model, or prototype, of the yet-unnamed device was presented to the public this week during the yearly Google I/O developer conference. Google did not say when the glasses might go on sale to the public. The first Google Glass device included a wearable camera that could film what the wearers saw.