AirPods Pro 2 : les meilleurs écouteurs d’Apple passent enfin sous les 200 €
news.movim.eu / Numerama · 09:41
[Deal du Jour] Les excellents écouteurs d’Apple sont souvent en promotion, mais descendent rarement sous les 200 €. À ce prix, difficile de ne pas conseiller les AirPods Pro 2.
L’IA vous rend déjà la vie plus simple, c’est juste que vous ne le voyez pas [Sponso]
news.movim.eu / Numerama · 05:47
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L’IA est partout ou presque : dans nos mails, dans nos smartphones, dans notre vie quotidienne numérique. Et c’est justement quand elle est invisible qu’elle est le plus pratique.
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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Yesterday - 22:18
Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that looks to sell things to Reddit users. Simultaneously, Reddit has marketers who are interested in pushing products to users through seemingly legitimate accounts.
In a blog post today, Reddit announced that its Dynamic Product Ads are entering public beta globally. The ad format uses "shopping signals," aka discussions with people looking to try a product or brand, machine learning, and advertiser product catalogs in order to post relevant ads. Reddit shared an image in the blog post that shows ads, including with products and pricing, that seem to relate to a posted question. User responses to the Reddit post appear under the ad.
A somewhat blurry depiction of the new type of ads Reddit is testing. [credit: Reddit ]
Reddit's Dynamic Product Ads can automatically show users ads "based on the products they’ve previously engaged with on the advertiser’s site" and/or "based on what people engage with on Reddit or advertiser sites," per the blog.
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A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Yesterday - 21:41 · 1 minute
The Polestar Phone. Someday it will unlock your Polestar car. [credit: Polestar ]
Polestar, the Volvo offshoot EV company, has made a smartphone. It's called, predictably, the Polestar Phone , and it's only available in China. There have been a lot of car-brand smartphones out there (it's often Lamborghini ), but usually, these are licensing deals that the car company ignores. Polestar seems to be proud of this phone, though, making it a bit more involved than the usual car-brand licensing deal. Just look at the new navigation drawer on the polestar.cn site, which has four main items: "Polestar 2", "Polestar 3", "Polestar 4" and now "Polestar Phone."
Why would a niche EV brand make a phone? Maybe all that work on the Android Automotive OS made Polestar's engineers really enthusiastic about Android device development. The website, through machine translation, promises the phone was "jointly designed by the Polestar global design team and the Xingji Meizu team in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is decorated with Swedish gold details that symbolize high performance." "Decorated" is probably the best way you could describe Polestar's contributions to this phone since it seems to be a bog standard Meizu 21 Pro with some Polestar branding. It does look beautiful, with a no-nonsense minimal rectangular design and all-screen front, but the same can be said for the Meizu phone this is based on.
So, how exactly is the Polestar Phone related to a Polestar car? Well, both run Android and have all-electric power systems. The phone has a slightly smaller battery than the EV, at only 5,050 mAh (that's something like 18 Wh) compared to the 100 kWh battery of something like a Polestar 4. The car also has the phone beat on-screen size, with the phone packing a pocketable 120 Hz 6.79-inch, 3192×1368 OLED, and the Polestars all sporting big tablet screens.
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Google can’t quit third-party cookies—delays shut down for a third time
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Yesterday - 17:30 · 1 minute
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Will Chrome, the world's most popular browser, ever kill third-party cookies? Apple and Mozilla both killed off the user-tracking technology in 2020 . Google, the world's largest advertising company, originally said it wouldn't kill third-party cookies until 2022 . Then in 2021, it delayed the change until 2023. In 2022, it delayed everything again, until 2024 . It's 2024 now, and guess what? Another delay. Now Google says it won't turn off third-party cookies until 2025, five years after the competition.
A new blog post cites UK regulations as the reason for the delay, saying, "We recognize that there are ongoing challenges related to reconciling divergent feedback from the industry, regulators and developers, and will continue to engage closely with the entire ecosystem." The post comes as part of the quarterly reports the company is producing with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Interestingly, the UK’s CMA isn't concerned about user privacy but instead is worried about other web advertisers that compete with Google. The UK wants to make sure that Google isn't making changes to Chrome to prop up its advertising business at the expense of competitors. While other browser vendors shut down third-party cookies without a second thought, Google said it wouldn't turn off the user-tracking feature until it built an alternative advertising feature directly into Chrome, so it can track user interests to serve them relevant ads. The new advertising system, called the Topics API and "Privacy Sandbox," launched in Chrome in 2023. Google AdSense is already compatible .
Apple publie OpenELM, le modèle de langage open source que personne n’attendait
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 15:29
Décliné en quatre versions, le modèle de langage OpenELM est la première approche open source d'Apple sur le terrain de l'intelligence artificielle générative. La marque, habituée au secret, va-t-elle aborder une stratégie différente face à OpenAI ?
4 questions sur Albert, le chatbot 100 % souverain de la France
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 15:22
« La France est le premier pays européen à inaugurer une IA 100 % souveraine et à la mettre au service de nos services publics », a fait savoir le Premier ministre Gabriel Attal le 23 avril. Cette IA, c'est Albert, un chatbot pour appuyer l'administration.
Il faut se méfier des chiffres sur le « flop » de l’Apple Vision Pro
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 12:27
L'analyste Ming-Chi Kuo rapporte qu'Apple aurait divisé par deux la production du casque Vision Pro, à cause d'une demande en chute libre. Neil Cybart, spécialiste dans l'analyse des chiffres de la marque américaine, indique qu'il ne faut pas croire ces prédictions.
Il s’appelle Thermonator et c’est un robot-chien équipé d’un lance-flammes
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 12:13
Une entreprise américaine commercialise un robot-chien d'un genre un peu particulier : il est équipé d'un lance-flammes sur le dos. La société met en avant plusieurs usages pacifiques, mais le nom de la machine transpire l'hostilité : Thermonator.
