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Amazon launches all-new Kindle e-readers, introducing new designs and colors -- and we got to try them

Mashable

Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Creator Playbook Mashable Selects In My Bag Look Up Say More AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age All Series Amazon is refreshing its entire Kindle e-reader lineup ahead of the device's 20th anniversary. Samantha Mangino, is an e-reader expert. She's tested all the Kindle and Kobo e-readers, diving into the buzziest models. Her love of reading extends beyond the e-reader beat, covering books and authors, too. In the tech space, she covers tablets, smart rings, and headphones.


Boox just dropped three new devices: Meet the Palma 3, Note Air6 C, and Note Mini C

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Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more In My Bag Look Up Say More Trending Now Mashable Selects Creator Playbook Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net All Series Samantha Mangino, is an e-reader expert. She's tested all the Kindle and Kobo e-readers, diving into the buzziest models. Her love of reading extends beyond the e-reader beat, covering books and authors, too. In the tech space, she covers tablets, smart rings, and headphones. All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.


OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-size and cost over 300

The Japan Times

OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-size and cost over $300 OpenAI is looking to break new ground with its upcoming device, which is slated for release in 2027. A highly anticipated new device from OpenAI will have a unique look, complete with moving parts that help give it personality, and likely cost more than $300, according to people familiar with the matter. The product -- essentially a smart speaker without a display -- will be shaped like a doughnut that's roughly the size of a hockey puck, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is confidential. The idea is to make the device easy to carry around the home with one hand. OpenAI is looking to break new ground with the product, which is slated for release in 2027.


iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo hands-on: SHIVALI BEST is one of the first people to test Apple's brand new devices - so, are they as good as they look?

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Hollywood icon who starred in Psycho after Hitchcock dubbed her'my new Grace Kelly' looks incredible at 95 Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Tucker Carlson erupts at Trump adviser as she hurls'SLANDER' claim linking him to synagogue shooting Ben Affleck'scores $600m deal' with Netflix to sell his AI film start-up Long hair over 45 is ageing and try-hard. I've finally cut mine off. Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. On Monday, it kicked things off with a new iPad Air and the iPhone 17e, before unveiling new Studio Displays, a MacBook Pro and and a MacBook Air on Tuesday. As if that wasn't enough, the tech giant introduced a new budget MacBook on Wednesday, dubbed the MacBook Neo .


LLM-Based Approach for Enhancing Maintainability of Automotive Architectures

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

There are many bottlenecks that decrease the flexibility of automotive systems, making their long-term maintenance, as well as updates and extensions in later lifecycle phases increasingly difficult, mainly due to long re-engineering, standardization, and compliance procedures, as well as heterogeneity and numerosity of devices and underlying software components involved. In this paper, we explore the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) when it comes to the automation of tasks and processes that aim to increase the flexibility of automotive systems. Three case studies towards achieving this goal are considered as outcomes of early-stage research: 1) updates, hardware abstraction, and compliance, 2) interface compatibility checking, and 3) architecture modification suggestions. For proof-of-concept implementation, we rely on OpenAI's GPT-4o model.


Gear News of the Week: Samsung's Trifold Promise, Ikea's Sonos Split, and Hugging Face's New Robot

WIRED

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.


LLM-Driven Auto Configuration for Transient IoT Device Collaboration

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

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.


Apple's Tim Cook reveals the release date for a brand new device - and there's not long to wait

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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.


New device can scan your face in 3D from hundreds of metres away

New Scientist

From 325 metres away, your eyes can probably distinguish a person's head from their body โ€“ 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.


Apple's Vision Pro ski goggle-looking headset gets black eye from YouTube, Netflix and Spotify ahead of launch

FOX News

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.