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New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later
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New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later

Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac’s usage history for what you’ve seen, said, or heard. (credit: Rewind AI) Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product for Macs with Apple Silicon that reportedly keeps a highly compressed, searchable record of everything you do locally on your Mac and lets...

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Intel’s oft-delayed “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon CPUs are finally coming in early 2023

Enlarge / Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs. (credit: Intel) Intel’s next-generation Xeon CPUs based on the new Sapphire Rapids architecture have been delayed more than once, but Intel is finally gearing up to begin selling them to PC companies and end users. According to an announcement-about-an-announcement tweet from Intel, a “data center launch event” on...

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Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3

Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. (credit: Meta AI) Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says this technique could dramatically improve the sound quality of...

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Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Photoshop

Enlarge / The Pantone Solid Coated and Solid Uncoated color libraries are disappearing from Adobe’s apps at some point, though the exact timing isn’t clear. (credit: Pantone) If you want to use up-to-date versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, you’ve already been paying subscription fees for years now. And if you want to use Pantone...