Apple2026-08-25 03:58:11Apple said to be preparing next Mac mini, with launch possibly coming within daysApple is reportedly speeding up preparations for a new Mac mini desktop, according to Cailianshe, which cited people familiar with the matter. The update would mark the first major refresh for the product in nearly two years. People familiar with the plans said the new desktop could be unveiled as soon as the next few days. Its release is also expected to come before Apple’s September iPhone launch event. The report added that the updated Mac mini is part of Apple’s product lineup for the second half of the year. Other products said to be in the pipeline for the same period include new Apple Watch models, new AirPods, and a smart home device with a screen that can identify users through facial recognition.990
ByteDance2026-08-05 04:53:00ByteDance Rolls Out SeedRealtime, a Native Full-Duplex Audio-Video Model Now Live in DoubaoByteDance has officially launched SeedRealtime, a native full-duplex audio-video large model, according to a Cailianshe report carried by PANews on Aug 5. The model does not rely on stitching separate speech, vision and text components into a pipeline. Instead, it uses a unified architecture that natively fuses all three modalities. That design lets SeedRealtime process continuous multimodal information streams in real time, enabling back-and-forth interaction that carries audio, visuals and text together. ByteDance describes the resulting experience as one where the model can look, listen and speak at the same time. End-to-end human evaluations show that conversation pacing problems fell by half compared with cascade models. The improvement shows up in how naturally the model times its responses: instances of being cut off mid-sentence, replying only after a long pause, or being triggered by background noise and casual chatter all decreased markedly. In addition, the likelihood of completing a single dialogue turn smoothly and coherently improved by a clear margin. SeedRealtime has now gone fully live on the Doubao app, making the new multimodal interaction capability available to users at scale.1880
