Apple Intelligence researchers are proposing a new approach to text-to-speech that would make Siri quicker to respond. That might, though, also make conversations flow more naturally.
Apple may have lost the odd AI researcher, but it continues to publish significant papers on the topic. Previously it has published about limiting AI from taking actions a user didn’t approve, and examining how to prevent hallucinations.
Now in a study called ”Principled Coarse-Grained Acceptance for Speculative Decoding in Speech,” researchers from Apple and Tel Aviv University, have focused on text-to-speech applications.
In AI, speech is sometimes generated based on tokens, or very short samples of sound. These are phonetic sounds, measured in milliseconds, which are then assembled into sentences.
A leaker with only a mixed track record is doubling down on the rumor that the iPhone 18 Pro is not getting a major redesign, but now says it’s because the iPhone 17 Pro was so successful.
Back in December 2025, leaker ”Fixed Focus Digital” said that the iPhone 18 Pro wouldn’t see visible changes ”as large as everyone thought.” Now he or she is back on Chinese social media site Weibo to say exactly the same thing, but with one qualification.
In translation, the leaker describes the iPhone 17 has having been enough of a hit for Apple to be celebrating with champagne. Then Fixed Focus Detail that the iPhone 18 series will not change much.
He or she does then go on to say that the A20 and A20 Pro processors expected to be in the iPhone 18 range will be significant. Or at least that they will be the most significant part of the update.
YouTube reported more than $60 billion in revenue for 2025.
The new disclosure covers revenue across advertising as well as subscriptions for services such as YouTube Premium TV, and gives somewhat of a window into how massive the userbase for the service is. In total, the company reported 325 million paid subscriptions in its fourth quarter across consumer services, which includes YouTube Premium, as well as the paid cloud storage service Google One, up from 300 million in the prior quarater.
The film from writer-director Patrick Hughes launches on the streaming service March 6. Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Blake Richardson, Keiynan Lonsdale and Daniel Webber round out the cast.
War Machine centers on a team of U.S. Army Rangers recruits who stumble upon an unparalleled danger during a training exercise.
Reddit users have been discussing the best video games ever made – check out their most popular choices below:
Taking to the popular AskReddit subreddit, one user asked “what is the best video game ever made” with more than 2600 users getting involved in the discussion.
The top-rated comment is currently a post praising Rolleroaster Tycoon 2, which was first released back in 2002 and lets people design their own theme park. “It’s a masterpiece, there was nothing like it back then,” wrote one fan. “There are few games of this calibre,” said another.
Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community.
As the first home computers began appearing in the 1970s, the world faced a question: Would its software be free?
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the day young Gates penned his infamous 1976 “Open Letter to Hobbyists,” complaining that his very first piece of commercial software had been pirated. It kicked off a series of reverberations, along with a major controversy that would continue boiling over the next half century — and ultimately shape the world we live and work in today.
