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On today’s episode of You Asked: Can we give it a rest with pumping up the TV brightness? Why is Samsung adding Nvidia G-Sync support but not Dolby Vision? And what type of TV will work best in a room with wraparound windows? Can we stop pumping up TV brightness? Hisense U9QG Digital Trends @allclear4115 asks: I’m depressed about TVs nowadays.. Not because they’re too bright, but because they can’t be tamed at all. Rest in peace, dark room! First off, I definitely understand the brightness fatigue. Everything seems to be “X times brighter than the previous generation” or “brightest…
Antonio Torralba, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and faculty head of artificial intelligence and decision-making at MIT, has been named to the 2025 cohort of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows. He shares the honor of an ACM Fellowship with three MIT alumni: Eytan Adar ’97, MEng ’98; George Candea ’97, MEng ’98; and Gookwon Edward Suh SM ’01, PhD ’05.A principal investigator within the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Torralba received his BS in telecommunications engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Spain, in 1994, and a PhD in signal, image, and speech…
Airbnb plans to double down on artificial intelligence to improve its user experience for both guests and hosts. During a fourth-quarter earnings call, Airbnb’s CEO, Brian Chesky, said the company is building an “AI-native experience” aimed at helping guests book trips, assisting hosts with their listings, and running the company more efficiently. According to Chesky, there’s an AI search tool to help guests book trips that’s live for a small percentage of users right now.In a shareholder letter posted on Airbnb’s website, the company said it’s conducting early testing with an AI-powered search that is “focused on giving guests a…
New Fitness FeaturesCourtesy of AppleThere are many reasons to wear an Apple Watch besides the health features. Maybe you just want quick access to your text, calendars, or Siri. Maybe you want to keep track of your kid or make sure your elderly mom doesn’t fall down.Still, I have been following the Apple Watch’s development for years, from a fairly standard wearable accessory to a fully featured fitness tracker that now compares favorably against the high-end Garmins and Suuntos of the world. Since its inception, Apple has gone all in on the watch as a personal health device, with CEO…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 13, 2026Malware / Critical Infrastructure Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The tech giant’s threat intelligence division said the adversarial targeting of the sector is centered around four key themes: striking defense entities deploying technologies on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine War, directly approaching employees and exploitation of the hiring process by North Korean and Iranian actors, use of edge devices and appliances as initial access pathways for China-nexus…
The start of a new year of streaming brims with anticipation for all the great things you’ll watch. You could get hooked on an underrated show, binge the return of a favorite or stream a new Oscar Best Picture winner from your couch. Envisioning upcoming entertainment is better when you don’t factor in how the price to watch it could change — and already is.2026 has already brought increases to services you might use to stream shows, movies, music and live TV, such as Paramount Plus, Spotify and Sling. Streamflation or not, you probably aren’t going to take a total break…
Grafana Labs Inc., a startup focused on commercializing the open-source Grafana observability platform, is reportedly in talks to raise new capital. The Information today cited sources as saying Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund is expected to lead the round. It’s unclear how much funding Grafana Labs’ hopes to raise. However, the insiders did reveal that the deal is set to boost the company’s valuation from $6.6 billion to $9 billion. GCI previously backed a $270 million funding round for Grafana Labs in August 2024. The deal also included the participation of Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG, Lightspeed, Sequoia and others. Large late-stage…
A Silent Revolution in SocializingThere has been a silent revolution in socializing. It isn’t loud. It isn’t flashy. It just…happened.And then suddenly you’re complaining to a machine at 2 a.m. and it responds back in a surprisingly intelligent way. Frightening? Perhaps. Soothing? Certainly.Why do so many people like this concept of an unlimited virtual girlfriend AI? Because it will listen.Because it will recall. Because it won’t get impatient if you complain all day about your problems. And because sometimes, that’s really all we need.Beyond the StereotypeWe’re past the scripted chatbot phase. The interactions seem nuanced, contextual…almost human. You tell a…
There’s some buzz right now about Netflix testing out a sleep timer.It’s a great idea for the app, which is no doubt up and running on many bedside stands around the world as subscribers settle in for a night’s rest. But it’s just a test for now, and one that’s only for Android versions of the app. That doesn’t mean iOS users are out of luck, though.While having sleep timers bundled as in-app features has been great for other apps (I use the Pocket Casts one frequently), iOS users already have access to a simple-yet-powerful sleep timer that works across…
Why do most growth engines feel like digital phone trees? As SaaS marketing automation evolves, the line between helpful concierge and noisy machine has blurred. We’ve automated ourselves into a corner. By 2026, buyers developed a biological immunity to the standard playbook. You know the symptoms. Just bumping these follow-ups. The LinkedIn messages pretending to know your dog’s name. The personalized videos feel like a hostage crisis. We optimized for the machine. In the rush to scale, we turned our growth engines into digital phone trees. The promise of SaaS marketing automation was always about reach. But in racing to…