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iPhone 15 series is slated to launch later this year, with four variants — the standard iPhone 15 , the iPhone 15 Plus , the iPhone 15 Pro, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which could debut as the 'Ultra' model this year. While Apple never puts out specifications for its forthcoming series of flagship smartphones before they are released, there have been various leaks and reports regarding the handsets in recent weeks. A pair of new sources have revealed some important details about the series' Pro versions. According to a MacRumors report , Apple intends to return to a two-button design for the iPhone 15 Pro models — both the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max — rather than the one unified volume button, that was previously reported to feature on Apple's upcoming flagship phones. The unified volume button was originally intended for solid-state technology, but Apple has reportedly decided to go with the older design now that solid-state buttons have been delayed, t...

Asia houses the majority share of gamers in the world, because of which the Web3 gaming industry is looking hopefully at expanding the sector in the continent. The gaming community of Asia churns the maximum chunk of revenue. In its latest research report, DappRadar said the Asian nations of India, China, Japan, and South Korea collectively have over 1.7 billion video game players, and this big number has attracted the Web3 gaming community to lay their focus in this market on priority. Over 55 percent of the global gaming community resides in Asia. The continent contributes over $72 billion (roughly Rs. 5,88,229 crore) in annual gaming revenue. The blockchain gaming market in Japan has specifically garnered major interest of the gaming industry. “Anime-based NFT collections have recently gained notable traction, comprising 10.73 percent of the top 1000 NFT collections ' trading volume,” the report said. Polygon and Ethereum — both eco-friendly proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain...

Amazon.com's cloud computing division on Thursday released a suite of technologies aimed at helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation services backed by artificial intelligence.  Microsoft and Alphabet are adding AI chatbots to consumer products like their search engines, but they are also eying another huge market: selling the underlying technology to other companies via their cloud operations.  Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), the world's biggest cloud computing provider, on Thursday jumped into that race with a suite of its own proprietary AI technologies, but it is taking a different approach.  AWS will offer a service called Bedrock that lets businesses customize what are called foundation models - the core AI technologies that do things like respond to queries with human-like text or generate images from a prompt - with their own data to create a unique model. ChatGPT creator OpenAI , for example, offers a similar service, letting c...

Songwriter James Blake's most recent album, Wind Down, plays in my ears on my way to meet Oleg Stavitsky, the co-founder of Berlin-based audio-technology company Endel. As sunshine turns to rain, the melancholic, piano-led ambient tracks echo my mood. That may not be a coincidence, says Stavitsky, pointing to the album's credits where Endel is cited alongside Blake as co-creator of the music. While Wind Down carries Blake's name and face, and was mixed from his ingredients — he provided individual “stem” tracks featuring drumbeats and melodies — Endel's technology generated the final product. Its sound engine, trained on thousands of in-house stems, creates personalized “soundscapes” for listeners by adjusting to externalities such as listeners' heart rates, the temperature or the time of day. Stavitsky cites Brian Eno's “generative music” as an inspiration, with humans building a framework that machines can then arrange and rearrange. If music AI 's Turin...

US-based iPhone maker Apple is continuously expanding its operations in India and the government is in regular touch with the company to support its business, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has said. He said that the electronics industry works like this as first they put a basic set up and then they keep sourcing different components to add into their ecosystem. "Apple is continuously expanding their operations in India... We are in regular touch with the Apple, MeITY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) is also in touch with them... We hand-hold them because in a way, the eyes of the whole world are fixed on Apple," he said when asked about Apple's plan to start full-fledged manufacturing unit in India. The company gets iPhones manufactured by electronics giants -- Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron in India. The minister has earlier stated that India's exports of mobile and electronics goods have doubled in the last year. "Apple its...