Apple is smaller The Mac mini is here — with M4 power. It’s also more affordable and better value than ever. It won’t shock you to hear that the M4 Pro is very fast, but the Mac mini also comes with 16 gigs of RAM as standard.
The base Mac mini has an M4 chip with a 10-core CPU (four high-performance cores and six high-efficiency cores), a 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. For $1,399, you can get a dramatically more powerful M4 Pro chip (like our review unit) with a 14-core CPU (10 high-performance and four high-efficiency) and a 20-core GPU. (But it’s an expensive upgrade.)
Its Geekbench 6 and Cinebench scores still beat most PCs we’ve tested this year, and its GPU is fast enough for solid 1080p 60 fps gaming. And this that small!
– Matt Smith
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It is available in most Workspace tiers.
Google Vids works on Gemini, Google’s AI model, to create business and marketing videos from Google Drive files and images. You can either start a video from scratch or use a pre-made template to create a first draft. There’s even a Help Create option.
Google Vids doesn’t make videos from scratch like Runway’s Gen-2 or OpenAI’s Sora’s mostly creepy creations. Google uses different media and compiles them based on your suggestions and the content of the source documents.
Paragon or renegade?
Diversity reports that Amazon MGM Studios is developing a TV series based on the sci-fi universe Mass Effect. Daniel Casey will write and executive produce the series. His screenplay has an action credit F9: Fast Saga and contributed to science fiction films relative and 10 Cloverfield Lane. The Mass Effect series includes the critically acclaimed title trilogy and a critically panned sequel, Andromeda. There’s another game in the works, which I’m assuming will make it into the show somehow. Corporate synergy, baby.
