From PC World: AMD’s Ryzen AI Pro 400 chip will be offered as a desktop processor, giving users another option for a low-power, efficient desktop or mini PC. But AMD is marketing both its desktop and mobile Ryzen AI 400s under its Pro brand for businesses, apparently conceding that consumers will...
From PC Mag: Apple has refreshed the iPad Air with the M4 chip and a big memory boost.
Apple has bumped the RAM from 8GB on last year’s model to 12GB on the latest one. “With the new iPad Air, unified memory jumps 50 percent, to 12GB, and memory bandwidth increases to 120GB/s, helping users run AI...
From CNET: Apple on Monday unveiled its newest budget phone, the iPhone 17E. Like last year, it starts at $599, but it comes with 256GB of base storage -- double the entry level from last year's iPhone 16E. Perhaps the biggest upgrade: the iPhone 17E supports MagSafe, so you can charge faster...
Have you ever met anyone whose mouth writes checks their abilities cannot cash? I know a guy who thinks he is the best at everything, but in reality is good at basically nothing. For example, he claims he is the best player in a recreational sports league. When he lost the tournament, he loudly proclaimed the only reason why he lost was because nobody could keep up with his pace. Another time, in a group project discussion, he kept shutting down...
From PC Mag: Netflix has announced it will not raise its offer to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. The decision clears the way for David Ellison-led Paramount Skydance, whose bid has been deemed superior by WBD’s board, to take over the entire company.
“We've always been disciplined, and at the...
From PC World: Nvidia has some more bad news for PC gamers: GPU shortages are here again.
Nvidia warned that supply constraints would be a “headwind” in its fourth-quarter 2026 earnings call, though the company didn’t specifically say whether its GPUs or the associated memory would be tight. It...
From CNET: Instagram will soon alert some parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short period. Instagram owner Meta said on Thursday that it's rolling out the new notifications to parents in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, with other...
From PC Mag: Valve, the maker of Steam and many of PC gaming’s most popular titles, is being sued by New York for its use of loot boxes. New York Attorney General Letitia James filed the lawsuit, claiming that loot box systems enable gambling habits and are particularly harmful for younger people...
From PC World: Microsoft has walked back a controversial change to its feature roadmap that would have put millions of older printers at risk.
Earlier this month, Microsoft’s feature roadmap page had indicated that older “V3” and “V4” printer drivers would be deprecated, or ended. If a user’s...
From CNET: ADT on Tuesday announced an interesting new acquisition for anyone looking to the future of home security -- and it's no surprise AI is a part of the story. In a $170 million deal, ADT has purchased Origin AI, which specializes in people detection in spaces like the inside of your home...
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