Touchscreen MacBook Pro and M6 MacBook Pro were shown at Apple’s LA launch. The touchscreen model uses the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips as March, adds a PROLED XDR tandem OLED display, touch input, and a lighter body, while the M6 starts at $1,999.
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Price: 14" M5 Pro from $2,899, M5 Max from $4,499, M6 from $1,999.
Display: PROLED XDR tandem OLED is described as the best display Apple has put on a laptop.
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Half-Life unauthorized Nintendo 64 port includes 103 maps
Half-Life receives an unauthorized port to Nintendo 64 with all 103 maps and full playthrough to the ending. The port uses Valve's official SDK code for player physics calculations.
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103 maps included, full playthrough to ending.
Uses Valve's official SDK code for player physics calculations.
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Mac Studio 512GB RAM vs 1990s SGI $100k seat
Mac Studio with 512GB RAM is presented as a modern, cheaper alternative to 1990s SGI workstations that cost around $100k per seat. A quoted tweet notes that the Nvidia B200 GPU is very expensive and provides only 192GB of memory.
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Cost: 1990s SGI and software ~ $100k per seat (1990s dollars)
Spec: Mac Studio includes 512GB RAM
GPU: Nvidia B200 GPU price high; memory 192GB
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Nvidia Hugging Face purchase $12.93B faces inquiry
Nvidia’s $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face is under review by the Justice Department for potential antitrust concerns. The department wants to know if ownership could let Nvidia harm rival chipmakers or other model sites. Nvidia says the site will stay open to rivals.
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Purchase amount: $12.93 billion
Justice Department inquiry into control over AI models
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ElevenLabs voice restoration for ALS patients in Spain
ElevenLabs recreated Aníbal’s voice so he can keep teaching despite ALS. The company is offering free access to its voice restoration technology to people with ALS across Spain.
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Voice recreated for Aníbal, an engineer and professor losing his voice to ALS
Free access to voice restoration technology for ALS patients in Spain