TECH

The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 5, 2025
AI models are being cranked out at a dizzying pace, by everyone from Big Tech companies like Google to startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. Keeping

OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its largest model to date
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 1, 2025
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newest, biggest model GPT-4.5, Microsoft pulling the plug on Skype, how Anthropic used

Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 25, 2025
Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including

Norway’s 1X is building a humanoid robot for the home
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 21, 2025
Norwegian robotics firm 1X unveiled its latest home robot, Neo Gamma, on Friday. The humanoid system will succeed Neo Beta, which debuted in August. Like

Are your noise-canceling headphones messing with your head?
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 17, 2025
We all know headphones can be bad for your hearing if you listen to sounds too loudly in such close proximity to your ears. But

Tim Cook teases Apple product news for February 19 — likely the iPhone SE
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 13, 2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook took to X Thursday to tease “the newest member of the family,” set to arrive February 19. The safe money is

Apple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro 2 on February 11
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 9, 2025
Apple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro headphones as early as February 11, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The announcement is likely

Ransomware payments dropped in 2024 as victims refused to pay hackers
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 5, 2025
Ransomware payments fell by more than one-third in 2024 as an increasing number of victims refused to negotiate with hackers. In a report published Wednesday,

Adobe exec Scott Belsky departs for indie movie studio A24
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 1, 2025
Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky announced this week that he will be joining A24, the independent movie studio behind “Civil War,” “Everything Everywhere All

Here are India’s biggest AI startups based on how much money they’ve raised
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 30, 2024
India is very far from the “uncanny valley” of San Francisco, but it has a massive trove of engineering talent, and some of those people