The Morning After: Apple's Surprise Airpods Max Refresh

You whitethorn person a small Apple fatigue aft past week's barrage of Macs, iPhones and iPads. The institution wasn't done, however. Surprise! Here is an updated brace of AirPods Max. It's a predictable surprise, perhaps, but 1 I wasn't expecting aft truthful galore different caller devices.

It's besides nan first existent update. The AirPods Max 2 look identical to their predecessor, but now person an H2 chip. First, nan AirPods Pro 2 amended sound cancellation by 50 percent and adhd support for Adaptive Audio and Live Translation. It's a much-needed update for headphones that, barring a USB-C option, haven't changed since 2020.

They're still priced astatine $549. In Apple's caller property images for its cheapest MacBook ever, a kid was using AirPods Max while moving connected their $599 MacBook Neo. Love it.

The caller headphones are up for pre-order connected March 25 and will vessel successful early April.

– Mat Smith

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MacBook Pro M5 Max 16-inch review

Still nan pinnacle.

What did I conscionable say? Wrapping up nan barrage of reviews of each that caller Apple hardware (besides those caller AirPods), we trial retired Apple's astir powerful caller MacBook. The caller Pro has an M5 Max chip, plentifulness of representation and is simply a beast. Thankfully, it still has each nan ports you'd want.

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xAI is being sued by teens who opportunity Grok created CSAM utilizing their photos

The people action suit says that nan lives of 3 teens person been "shattered."

xAI is facing a class-action suit successful California, aft its Grok AI reportedly generated sexualized images of children. Three teenagers revenge suit, alleging Grok utilized their photos to create kid exploitation material. One teen was alerted successful December that AI-generated, sexually definitive images of her and different minors were being shared "in settings pinch which she was familiar, but shape-shifted into sexually definitive poses." The Center for Countering Digital Hate estimated successful January that Grok produced millions of sexualized images, including 23,000 perchance depicting children.

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Finally, Android tablets and foldables are getting a Chrome bookmark bar

Hello, powerfulness users.

Google is rolling retired a caller characteristic for Chrome that will adhd a bookmark barroom to nan browser connected Android foldables and tablets. Spotted by 9to5Google, this move will make nan browsing acquisition connected larger mobile devices much akin to that of laptops and desktops moving Chrome. Perfect if you managed to drawback Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold earlier it disappears forever.

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