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May 13, 2025

Apple's Secret Weapon: This AI Could Power Its Smart Glasses

Right now, Apple’s Vision Pro is more like a glorified monitor you can wear on your face. It has its uses, and it is a technological marvel, but it doesn’t do much at the moment. Plus, its size and price mean it’s not something you can use every day. However, Apple has plans for a future pair of smart glasses, and this is the AI model that could run on it.

Meet Apple’s new AI model for its smart glasses

It’s not surprising that the Vision Pro hasn’t become mainstream. Like we said, the size and price put it out of reach for most people. If Apple wants something that can be adopted by the masses, smart glasses are the way to go. But smart glasses aren’t smart without software, which is why, according to a report from 9to5Mac, they speculate that Apple’s new FastVLM AI model could drive the device.

According to Apple’s description of the AI model, “Based on a comprehensive efficiency analysis of the interplay between image resolution, vision latency, token count, and LLM size, we introduce FastVLM—a model that achieves an optimized trade-off between latency, model size, and accuracy.”

The AI model’s core is the FastViTHD encoder,

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May 13, 2025

Beats Studio Buds Drop to $99—Because Paying Full Price Is for Suckers

Amazon has discounted the Beats Studio Buds, bringing them down to just $99.95. That’s good for $50 off of their regular price. This isn’t quite the all-time lowest price for the Beats Studio Buds, but it is pretty close.

The Beats Studio Buds Plus are also discounted to the same $99. These are exactly the same as the Beats Studio Buds, the only difference is the transparent case and earbuds.

The Beats Studio Buds are really great for those who use iOS or Android since they support Google’s Fast Pair. This allows you to simply open the case, and they will automatically appear to connect on your Android phone. So, it is a great pair to get for the new Pixel 7, Galaxy S22 Ultra, or other phones.

Battery life on the Beats Studio Buds is also really good. We’re looking at eight hours of continuous playback and about 24 hours with the carrying case. You also get fast charging here, which gives you an hour of listening time after five minutes of charging.

Apple has included active noise canceling in the Beats Studio Buds, which are perhaps the cheapest pair of truly wireless earbuds that offer ANC.

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May 12, 2025

New iPhone 17 Pro Dummy Video Leaves Nothing to the Imagination

Apple is usually known for its clean and modern designs for its iPhones. Unfortunately, the design of the company’s upcoming iPhone 17 Pro series has us scratching our heads. If you hoped that the leaked renders and photos you’ve seen were fake, it’s looking less likely by the minute. A new video posted on X by tipster Majin Bu shows off an iPhone 17 Pro dummy unit reflecting what has been leaked.

iPhone 17 Pro dummy unit in video

The latest video shows a dummy unit of the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro along with its ridiculous-looking camera module. For some reason, Apple has opted to change the design of the camera module on the phone. It now stretches across the back of the phone. For reference, the current iPhone 16 Pro models have a camera module sitting at the corner of the phone.

iPhone 17 Pro looks so good pic.twitter.com/X7ogpscr1i

— Majin Bu (@MajinBuOfficial) May 8, 2025https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Many have noted that this design appears to draw inspiration from Google’s Pixel series. However, Apple’s implementation feels less graceful. There’s a lot of blank space between the camera lenses, flash unit, sensors, and microphone. We’re not sure what the blank space is being used for.

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May 11, 2025

Google’s Search empire is under fire, and Apple’s fanning the flames

I have to admit, with AI like ChatGPT, researching topics and looking up stuff on the internet has become a lot faster and easier. But am I spending less time on Google than I did before? Not really. However, Apple thinks otherwise, claiming that users are searching less than they did before.

Search on Safari is declining—or is it?

Apple SVP Eddy Cue made this statement. During a court testimony the other day, Cue told the judge that Apple found users searching less in Safari for the first time ever in April. He suggested that maybe users are now turning to AI alternatives, such as ChatGPT. However, Google doesn’t agree with this statement.

Google has released its own statement refuting Cue’s claims. “We continue to see overall query growth in Search. That includes an increase in total queries coming from Apple’s devices and platforms. More generally, as we enhance Search with new features, people are seeing that Google Search is more useful for more of their queries — and they’re accessing it for new things and in new ways, whether from browsers or the Google app, using their voice or Google Lens. We’re excited to continue this innovation and look forward to sharing more at Google I/O.”

So,

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