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Fast and Robust On-Device Speaker Diarization: Relative Minimum Cluster Size for Stride-Accelerated Pipelines

Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech applications such as meeting transcription and voice agents would benefit from on-device speaker diarization, but practical adoption is limited by inference cost. We study how far a Pyannote 3.1-based pipeline can be accelerated on consumer hardware (an RTX 5070 Ti GPU and an Apple M4 laptop) while preserving diarization error rate (DER). A simple recipe: coarser segmentation stride and per-chunk embedding, yields multi-fold speedups and is DER-neutral...

Apple appears to have discontinued its cheapest Mac mini

Apple appears to have discontinued its cheapest Mac mini The AI industry's demand for memory, storage and powerful chips has finally come for the Mac mini. Apple has stopped selling its cheapest $599 model of the Mac mini, based on changes to the company's store page spotted by MacRumors. Only configurations that come with at least 512GB of storage and up are available, which means the Mac mini now effectively starts at $799.

I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 I already had an RTX 4080. Good enough for gaming, not good enough for the models I wanted to run locally. The next step up in GPU land is either spend a fortune on a card with more VRAM, or find another way.

The Apple Watch Series 11 is back to its best price

The Apple Watch Series 11 is $100 off in all colors. Apple’s upcoming watchOS 27 update will bring Siri AI and other exciting features to the Apple Watch Series 9 and newer Apple Watch models. If you’re contemplating an upgrade, all colorways of the GPS-enabled 42mm Apple Watch Series 11 — the latest model — are on sale for $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Target, matching its best price so far.

Best Laptops For College Students (2026): MacBooks and Beyond

College laptops don't have to be embarrassing. Nor do they have to be overly expensive. There are a lot of great laptops for college students that combine long battery life, easy portability, and the performance needed for everyday coursework in a great design.

Best iPad Accessories (2026): Keyboards, Cases, Styli

The Best iPad Accessories Featured in this article When you own an iPad, your choices of accessories are nearly endless. There's a wealth of cases, cables, adapters, styli, keyboards, and stands out there to trick out your slate. But how do you pick which ones to buy?

MacBook Air M5 review: Apple’s best consumer laptop speeds up

iOS 27 beta has arrived: Here's how to get it on your iPhone

iOS 27 beta has arrived: Here's how to get it on your iPhone Beta versions of iOS, iPadOS and watchOS are available to download if you have a developer account. Apple's recently announced iOS 27 update won't officially ship until the fall, but you can get a taste of the performance improvements and new Siri features the company showed off at WWDC 2026 by downloading a developer beta today. Apple has made betas available for iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and more, but you should be aware of...

It's do or die for Apple AI

Apple’s revamped artificial intelligence stack and a revamped Siri were front and center at Monday’s WWDC keynote, making it clear that, this time around, it’s do or die for Apple AI. The keynote itself and the announcements that followed were all about Siri and Apple Intelligence, with platform improvements and child safety updates a blip in the hour-long broadcast. Given the relentless industry hype around AI and Apple's missteps there so far, no one should be surprised.

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

Introducing 1-bit and Ternary Bonsai Image 4B: Image Generation for Local Devices Today we’re releasing Bonsai Image 4B, a family of compact image-generation models designed to run high-quality diffusion inference on local hardware: from laptops to phones. Bonsai Image 4B comes in two variants: - 1-bit Bonsai Image 4B uses binary {−1, +1} transformer weights with an FP16 group-wise scaling factor, giving 1.125 effective bits per weight. It targets maximum compression and is the right fit...