This week has been a roller coaster in the tech world. Twitter shut down thanks to the biggest interruption this year, giving us all a moment of peace, Google Gemini-Infunded Robots revealed that feels like the start of a robotic revolution and we tested Apple’s new MacBook and iPad Air.
To catch up on all that and more, roll down for ours in case you miss it and catch up with the seven biggest tech stories of the week.
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X had its greatest power outage for years
The social media giant, formerly known as Twitter, has had a tumultuous couple of years – but even compared to Elon Musk’s acquisition in 2022 this week was a turbulent. X was taken completely offline several times on Monday, when Musk later claimed this was due to a “massive cyberattack”.
Given x is attacked “every day”, according to Musk, this huge power outage was explained by the guilty who had “a lot of resources”. Cue some inevitable political finger points and many people who discover what DDOs stand for (spoiler for your trivia quiz is the ‘distributed denial of service’). X is back to his old self now with its trademark mixing of memes and indignation, but it may not be long before the next big power outage.
We saw Sony’s next gene TV technique in action
OLED is generally considered the best priesting TV tech, and for good reason, as OLED TVs deliver perfectly uniform images with “infinite” contrast and rich color. Oled’s primacy has mostly gone undisputed, but a new RGB LED background lighting technology for TVs, which Sony just announced, could finally make mini-LED TVs competitive.
Sony’s “NEXT-Generation Display System” replaces the quantum print used for mini-joint TV TV with a “high density LED background lighting” with individual control over the red, green and blue primary colors. Its benefits include high brightness, expanded color and oled-like contrast, and Sony also claims that it can be cost-effectively scaled up to larger screen sizes than OLED TVs maximizing 97 inches.
TV producers regularly issue breast care messages on new technology under development, but in this case Techradar was invited to Sony’s headquarters for a preview, and that’s as good as they claim. See your back, OLED!
We reviewed the new MacBooks and iPads
Apple recently launched some new technologies and we’ve had the chance to try it all. Long story short, it’s all amazing.
IPad Air with M3 earned four and a half-stars thanks to its new chipset offering a solid effect boost without a price uneven. The screen is as vivid as ever, the life of the battery and sound is great, and thanks to support from the new Magic keyboard, it is more portable similar than ever before. Our only grip is Apple’s new slate is a little too similar to last year’s model in the camera and display department – with still only a few 12MP snappers (one towards each direction) and a screen that lacks smooth promotion prices, you will still only get more premium models.
As for the new MacBook broadcast with M4, they wowed us once again, as they can not only boast excellent performance – helped by the upgraded chip they just received – but they are less expensive to start. Instead of $ 1,299 / £ 1,399 / AU $ 2,199, you can select the laptop for $ 1,199 / £ 1,199 / AU $ 2,099 cementing this slim machine as one of the best values for money -laptops on the market.
iRobot replaced almost the entire Roomba series
This week we learned that iRobot was scraping almost all of its Roomba Robotvakuum and replacing them with four shiny new models. It is a bold move, but feels necessary considering how far the brand began to slip behind its competitors.
New features include Lidar Navigation (finally), spinning mop pads, a cool design aesthetic and a naming system that actually makes a kind of meaning. The most interesting model is perhaps the Roomba 205, which boasts a dust -coming aboard the bin and looks perfect for those with small homes that have no room for a voluminous dock.
They may not be the flashest innovations we’ve seen in the market too late, but we think iRobot has spiced what customers are actually looking for in a robot wacuum. Here it hopes it can help the original Robovac brand to catch up with the competition.
New limited beam -lane smart glasses disappointed us
Meta launched new Ray-Ban smart glasses this week-ja, it launched a new design of glasses available for a limited period in collaboration with fashion brand Coperni.
They are undeniably stylish with a translucent black frame (which allows you to see their inner work) and mirrored lenses, but in addition to the Copernia logo stamped at the end of each arm there is nothing special about this limited run. What more is not only these specifications are more limited than Meta’s previous clear frame drop – only 3,600 Copernia -smart glasses are available instead of 7,500 as before – they are also more expensive.
Meta’s glasses usually start at $ 299 / £ 299 / AU $ 449 and its last limited fall was $ 429 / £ 429 (it was not available in Australia). These Copernia specs sell for $ 549 / £ 519 / AU $ 859. Some commentators for the original story love the design, but for us it is not enough to justify the hype and cost of Meta and Ray -Ban’s first ever smart glasses collapses.
Disney+ makes Andor free to stream on YouTube
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Did you miss seeing what has come to be considered the best Star Wars show ever made? You don’t have to worry about having Fomo anymore because Disney has decided to publish the first three episodes of Andor On YouTube for free.
It has also done the entire first season of one of the best Disney+ exhibitions available at Hulu in the USA in front of the highly expected premiere Andor Season 2 on April 22, giving some non -Disney+ subscribers even more ways to get into the action.
It’s a smart move to connect more fans to the show, and if you’ve become one of them (welcome), you would undoubtedly want to take advantage of this big streaming deal that brings Disney+ and Hulu Bundle costs back to its amazing Black Friday prize -join the rebels!
Google Gemini just got physical
Google Gemini is one of the most powerful AI platforms, but until this week it was mostly about text, images and did not connect directly to the physical world. It changes with gemini robotics and its counterpart, Gemini Robotics (embodied reasoning). Together, these platforms connect the dots between Gemini’s powerful models and robots.
The long-term target is Humanoid Robots that run gemini models (many major robot companies, like Boston Dynamics, are already on board) to help them interact with the real world and especially unknown situations. Our personal favorite was a few robotic arms that quickly figured out how to smash a toy basketball without any specific workout. The race for our robotic revolution is accelerating.
