March 20, 2025

Vote for the Sessions: AI speaker you want to see | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Sessions: AI kicks off on June 5 at Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley — and you have the power to decide who you want to see lead an impactful breakout session. We have narrowed down the impressive number of speaker applications to six incredible finalists. Now, it’s up to you to choose who you want to see share their wisdom with 1,200 fellow AI leaders and enthusiasts! You can take part in Audience Choice

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Make waves in 2025: Exhibit at TechCrunch events

If you’re reading this, you already know: It’s time to amplify your brand. Get in front of thousands of TechCrunch event attendees, readers, and decision-makers who can take your business further this year by exhibiting at a TechCrunch event. The perks of exhibiting: What’s in it for you Exhibiting doesn’t just elevate your brand — it gives you and your team full access to all the perks of an attendee at whichever event you exhibit:

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AI

Loss of Pulse Detection on the Google Pixel Watch 3

Acknowledgements The research described here is joint work across Google Research, Google Health, Google DeepMind, and partnering teams, including Consumer Health Research, Personal Safety, quality, regulatory, and clinical operations. The following researchers contributed to this work: Kamal Shah, Anran Wang, Yiwen Chen, Jitender Munjal, Sumeet Chhabra, Anthony Stange, Enxun Wei, Tuan Phan, Tracy Giest, Beszel Hawkins, Dinesh Puppala, Elsina Silver, Lawrence Cai, Shruti Rajagopalan, Edward Shi, Yun-Ling Lee, Matt Wimmer, Pramod Rudrapatna, Thomas Rea, Shelten

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Hardware

YouTube Responds To Complaints Of Blurry Videos On iPhone, Fix Incoming

More than ten-thousand users have complained to YouTube about an irritating problem where YouTube videos play in poor quality. Perhaps you’re an iPhone user and are facing this issue yourself. Maybe you’ve adjusted your internet settings repeatedly or tried other troubleshooting methods, but the issue remains unresolved. Well, don’t waste your time: Youtube has acknowledged the issue and has promised to resolve it. Thousands of users on the YouTube community page complain that when watching

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Data Centers Seek Engineers Amid a Talent Shortage

4 min read Madeleine Barry is an mechatronics apprentice in Culham, U.K. Alecsandra Dragoi/DSIT The rapid development of AI is fueling a data center boom, unlocking billions of dollars in investments to build the infrastructure needed to support data- and energy-hungry models. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are among the key players backing large-scale AI projects, betting that new data centers will create jobs. In the United States, the Trump administration announced in late January the

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Hardware

AMD Zen 6 APU Driver Tips Graphics Architecture And It’s Not RDNA 4

AMD’s just launched its Strix Halo high-end mobile APUs, but progress marches ever forward, and so it goes that we are now looking at leaks concerning the Strix successor, supposedly known as Medusa Point. Based on the Zen 6 “Morpheus” CPU core, Medusa Point has been said to sport a twelve-core CPU CCD as well as an eight-WGP GPU based on the potent RDNA 4 architecture. Well, play the extremely loud incorrect buzzer noise, because

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Hardware

Hands-On HP Omen Max 16: First Arrow Lake HX Gaming Laptop With RTX 5090

We made the trek out to HP Amplify this week (as well as NVIDIA’s GTC conference), and while there, we got to to go hands-on with a beastly laptop configuration that is available to preorder. It’s the HP Omen Max 16, and as configured it pairs an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor based on Arrow Lake-HX with a mobile GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. In case you missed it, Intel unveiled several Arrow Lake-HX processors

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