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At IFA 2024, Samsung Electronics showcased its advanced AI capabilities, with a notable focus on the integration of the Galaxy Ring into smart home ecosystems. The Galaxy Ring, featured prominently alongside the Galaxy Z series, Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Buds, and Galaxy Book, exemplifies Samsung’s vision of an interconnected future.

The Galaxy Ring enhances smart home management by integrating with Samsung’s SmartThings platform. This integration allows it to communicate with various smart home devices, adjusting settings such as lighting, temperature, and humidity based on the wearer’s activities and preferences.

For instance, the Galaxy Ring can optimize home environments for better sleep by adjusting appliances when it detects the user is resting.

In addition to its home integration capabilities, the Galaxy Ring was highlighted for its role in creating a more personalized and responsive living space.

SmartThings can automatically adjust home appliances to create ideal sleep conditions when the Galaxy Ring detects that the user has fallen asleep.

For example, users can link the ring to Bespoke AI home appliances to automate functions based on their health metrics. Imagine coming home to a cooler room after a workout, or adjusting your home’s lighting and temperature based on your sleep patterns. This integration enables a truly personalized and connected lifestyle.

The AI capabilities of the Galaxy Ring enhance its functionality within the broader smart home ecosystem. By analyzing daily activity and health data, it provides tailored recommendations not just for physical well-being, but also for optimizing home environments. Users can receive smart alerts and adjust appliances to align with their fitness and recovery needs, creating a seamless, AI-powered living experience.

SmartThings Pro, designed for B2B use, simplifies operations in residential and commercial spaces by connecting and managing lighting, temperature, humidity controls, cameras, home appliances, and other IoT devices.

Visitors at the IFA event noted the practical benefits of such connectivity, reflecting a growing interest in the interaction between wearable technology and smart home systems.

This development underscores Samsung’s commitment to enhancing daily life through AI-driven innovations, ensuring that their devices work together to provide a more intuitive and efficient user experience.

Samsung’s AI-Powered Galaxy Ring Redefines Smart Home Integration

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Lenovo has unveiled its new ThinkBook 16 Gen 7+ at Lenovo Innovation World 2024 during IFA, showcasing significant advancements in AI-powered computing. This premium laptop is engineered to enhance both productivity and creative capabilities for professionals.

The ThinkBook 16 Gen 7+ is equipped with the advanced AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor, featuring up to 50 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) for next-gen AI performance. This enables exceptional speed and efficiency for multitasking and content creation. Complementing the processor is the AMD Radeon 880M graphics, which delivers high-resolution visuals for an immersive experience.

The laptop boasts a sleek metal design with a 16-inch 3.2K display, offering a visually appealing and functional workspace. It includes a full array of I/O ports, dedicated keys for Lenovo’s AI features, and tactile markers on the keyboard to enhance accessibility. Security is robust with hardware-enabled protection and Microsoft Pluton’s chip-to-cloud technology, ensuring secure identity and cryptographic services.

The ThinkBook 16 Gen 7+ is designed for high productivity, equipped with AI-accelerated tools that optimize workflow and handle complex tasks efficiently. Its portability is reinforced by a lightweight build and an 85Whr battery, which supports over 17 hours of 1080p video playback. Connectivity is maintained through Wi-Fi 7, ensuring fast and reliable internet access.

Specs

Availability and Price

The new Thinkbook 16 Gent7+ is set to be available starting December 2024, with an expected starting price of €999 (~$1.102). Unfortunately, this model will not be officially sold in North America, including the US.

Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 7+ Launched With Advanced AI And AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor

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The first-person shooter Doom has so many ports on so many different consoles and computers that modders have had to find new places to port the game like autonomous lawnmowers, digestive bacteria and even in Doom II itself.

One port that’s not nearly as popular or playable as the others is the Sega Saturn port that came out nearly four years after the game’s release. Gamespot’s Jeff Gerstmann called the Sega Saturn Doom port just about everything you can call a bad game without straying over the the boundaries of good taste: “completely worthless,” “drab,” “jerky,” “to be avoided at all costs.”

Bo, a self-described reverse engineer of Sega Saturn games, gave the Sega Saturn port of Doom another chance and he discovered a cheat code in the game that’s been laying dormant for more than a decade. He posted the secret cheat code he found on X.

The button combination X, Right, B, Y, X, Right, B, Y gives you the ability to see through the walls of the Mars substation and even Hell. It’s too bad the game doesn’t have a cheat code that lets you see a better version of Doom.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/someone-discovered-a-new-cheat-code-for-the-27-year-old-saturn-port-of-doom-230059377.html?src=rss

It’s the day after Apple launched the iPhone 16, and though I published my hands-on with the iPhone 16 Pro right after the event, I didn’t have a lot of time to spare for the base models until today. With that extra time, I’ve been able to learn more about the differences between the standard iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16 Pro, and honestly I’m pleasantly surprised that there aren’t that many.

One of the most obvious ways to tell the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro apart is in their color selections. The entry-level series has a pleasant, vibrant array of colors this year, with the teal, pink and blue options really catching my eye. These hues are saturated and punchy, compared to the light pastel shades from recent years. I especially like how deep the “ultramarine” blue is — the pictures don’t do any of these finishes justice.

The entire iPhone 16 series has the new camera control, meaning you can use the hardware switch to launch the camera app, and then tweak settings like zoom, depth and tone. Having played with them both, I can confirm that they’re equally clicky and satisfying to use. Unlike last year, where only the Pro models got the Action button, the iPhone 16 has similar controls, so you’re not missing out on a dedicated key by opting for a cheaper model. 

You also gain the ability to record spatial video and audio, thanks to the iPhone 16’s updated cameras. In addition to a new ultrawide camera with autofocus and support for macro shots, the sensors have been realigned and are now vertically stacked atop each other. Most intriguing is that the iPhone 16 will also support the new Audio Mix feature that lets you more finely control the voices and sounds in your footage after capture. 

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It’d be easy to assume that the “four new studio-quality mics” on the iPhone 16 Pro are what’s behind Audio Mix, but it appears to just be the ability to record spatial audio that enables the new feature. With this you can go into the iPhone 16’s video editing interface, tap the tab for Audio Mix and choose between “In-frame,” “Cinematic” and “Studio” options. The first one isolates the sound from subjects in the scene and cuts out background noise, while Studio mimics the acoustic environment of a recording studio, complete with dampening walls. Cinematic, meanwhile, consolidates all the sounds in the front and center of the space.

I was able to get a demo of the Audio Mix feature, and was really impressed that the iPhone 16 was able to isolate voices of people it recorded speaking in an echoey outdoor deck in Apple’s new Observatory space. Not only did switching between the different mixes effectively change how loud the various sources of sound were, but it was also nice to learn that you can tune the volume of specific streams in each profile. This is something I’m going to want to play with a lot more to better understand it, but for now I’m very intrigued by the possibility of using an iPhone 16 for future Apple event videos.

One disappointing exclusion from the iPhone 16 is the multi-track recording feature coming to iPhone 16 Pro. That Voice Memo update is only going to be available on the Pro models. 

In fact, here are the main upgrades if you spring for a Pro: ProMotion screens with higher refresh rates and Always On Display, as well as superior camera hardware with a 48-megapixel ultrawide lens and a 5x telephoto option. The premium handsets also have support for 4K120p high-quality slo-mo footage and professional formats like ProRaw. The Pros also have the A18 Pro chip, compared to the iPhone 16’s A18, and the differences mostly lie in GPU performance, so you might have a better time gaming on the more premium model. 

Other differences are fairly minimal, like the titanium build and faster USB speeds on the Pros. In general, though, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus feel like much less of a trade off for the cost savings, and you’re also getting more fun colors. They also seem like a greater improvement from their predecessors, which is a welcome change after years of incremental changes.

Catch up on all the news from Apple’s iPhone 16 event!

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/iphone-16-hands-on-more-pro-than-i-expected-222843896.html?src=rss

The Xbox Game Pass Standard plan is available starting today. Microsoft announced a revamp to its Game Pass subscription plans in July, introducing the Standard option alongside a price increase for the Ultimate tier. The Standard plan costs $15 a month, while Ultimate will run you $20 a month.

The Standard subscription tier will offer the essential features of the Game Pass program: online multiplayer gaming, access to a large library of games, and discounts on select game purchases. The big difference between Standard and Ultimate is that Standard plan members will not be able to play some blockbuster releases, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, on day one. The wait time on Standard varies by title, but can last up to or longer than 12 months. Ultimate plans also include membership to EA Play and access to Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Xbox has been struggling to compete with PlayStation in this console generation. That’s partially due to hardware differences: Microsoft offered an underwhelming refresh to its console lineup this summer whereas Sony managed to build lots of hype for the announcement of its expensive new PS5 Pro. But the Game Pass plan has also been struggling to generate continued revenue for Microsoft, with just 34 million subscribers reported in February.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/game-pass-standard-is-now-available-on-xbox-202451946.html?src=rss