🤖 Anthropic makes grand claims about its latest AI model 📱 Samsung flagship phone's camera specs just leaked ▶️ YouTube Premium subscribers targeted over spoof locations 😱 Matthew McConaughey's 'scary' break from Hollywood 🕹️ Don’t start Shadow of the Erdtree on PC without this free app | |
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Anthropic makes some grand claims about its latest AI model
| You can try out Claude 3.5 Sonnet for free on the Claude.ai website and the Claude iOS app | Anthropic’s new Claude 3.5 Sonnet is having a go at fighting for AI assistant dominance, TechCrunch reported. The newly released AI model edged Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI's GPT-4o across a spectrum of benchmark tests, the San Francisco-based company claimed in a blog post on Thursday. Claude 3.5 Sonnet also operates at twice the speed of its predecessor, Claude 3 Opus, and is vastly better at making sense of information in images, Anthropic said. “This performance boost, combined with cost-effective pricing, makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet ideal for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multistep workflows,” it added ... | |
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The Samsung Galaxy S25's camera specs just leaked
| Samsung expected to unveil its next smartphone lineup early in 2025
| Some notable camera enhancements are coming to the Galaxy S25 Ultra, according to a leak from prominent Dutch site Galaxy Club. Samsung’s flagship smartphone will boast a 200MP primary rear camera, a 50MP ultrawide camera, a 50MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, and a 50MP telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom, the site claims. For comparison, the Galaxy S24 Ultra comes with a 200MP primary camera, a 12MP ultrawide camera, a 10MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, and a 50MP telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom. But the entry-level Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus will apparently feature the same 50MP main and 12MP selfie cameras found on their predecessors. There's no word yet on the phones’ ultrawide or telephoto lenses ... | |
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YouTube cracks down on Premium subscribers using spoof locations
| The streaming giant has been fighting against ad blockers for years, but now it's battling on another front | YouTube appears to be taking action against subscribers to its Premium tier who use a VPN to change locations, Android Police reported. There are two main reasons a user might do this. First, some regions don’t show ads, so it’s another way to dodge the interruptions, and second, Premium subscriptions work out to be cheaper in some countries, so it’s a relatively easy way to save money. But recent Reddit posts claim that YouTube has started to cancel cheaper Premium subscriptions initiated using VPNs. YouTube sends a message to subscribers who break the rules, telling them their service will end soon unless they hit the button to restart their membership and pay a fee linked to their true location ... | |
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McConaughey reveals it was 'scary' quitting Hollywood for two years | The actor said that when he stepped away from films, the days were long and he felt a 'sense of insignificance'
| Matthew McConaughey has revealed that he found it “scary” quitting Hollywood in the 2000s, but said he did so because he’d had enough of being offered more rom-com roles. Speaking to Interview magazine, the actor, who established himself in the genre with movies like The Wedding Planner and How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, said: “There was only so much bandwidth I could give to [rom-com movies] and those were some solid hits for me. But I wanted to try some other stuff. Of course, I wasn’t getting it, so I had to leave Hollywood for two years.” McConaughey recalled that he’d thought about becoming a high-school teacher, wildlife guide, or even a conductor, before deciding to stay in acting ... | |
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Don’t start Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree on PC without these apps | They improve smoothness, add features not available in the PC port | There are two apps that will greatly improve the experience of playing Shadow of the Erdtree on PC. One is free and the other is paid, and both improve the smoothness of Elden Ring and add features that aren't available in the PC port. The free app is called Special K. It's a powerhouse utility that can force Nvidia Reflex in games, modify and lock inputs to different displays, inject HDR where it isn't available, and more. The mod's creator says you should disable the Easy Anti-Cheat software that the game launches to avoid any potential bans. But if you're just looking for a smoother experience and don't want to risk a ban, you can use the $7 Lossless Scaling app on Steam, which offers upscaling and frame generation across games ... | |
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