From CNET: Amazon rolled out ads in its Prime Video streaming service Monday, after announcing the change in September. This launch begins with customers in the US, the UK, Canada and Germany for early 2024, with France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia to follow later this year.
Amazon said...
From Tom's Hardware: Months after its announcement, Microsoft finally released a new Windows 11 Canary Build with WordPad scrubbed from existence. Microsoft described WordPad as a 'Deprecated Feature' indicating it is no longer in development, and therefore the software-making giant will no longer...
From The Verge: Amazon’s deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot is off, the companies announced today, after iRobot said the deal has “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union.” iRobot is also announcing that it’s laying off around 350 employees, or around 31 percent of its workforce as part of...
From PC World: Shortly after Apple made news by allowing game streaming services on the iPhone for the first time, AMD has some mobile game streaming news of its own…though probably not as welcome. The company announced that it’s ending support for the AMD Link mobile app, which allows gamers to...
What do you call someone who owns a house and a car in a major city in Canada? Up until a few years ago, it would have just been an average person with an average job, but ever since COVID-19, a lot of things have changed. I live in Calgary, which is supposedly one of the most affordable major cities in Canada, especially when compared to Vancouver and Toronto. However, Calgary's level of "affordability" has severely eroded in the last few years...
From Tom's Hardware: SK Hynix has this week reported a return to operating profitability in the fourth quarter of 2023. This marks a significant turnaround, with an operating profit of 346 billion won ($258.83 million). The fourth quarter improvement was attributed to a recovery in the DRAM chip...
From The Verge: Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup has launched in China, and the company is tapping Chinese tech giant Baidu to power its Galaxy AI features, CNBC reports. There’s no mention of Google, whose Gemini foundational models are powering Samsung’s Galaxy AI features in Western markets. Instead...
From PC World: New drivers for Intel’s Arc GPUs, unifying previously separate drivers for desktop Arc graphics cards and the Arc GPU integrated into new Core Ultra laptop processors, have led to significant performance increases for a range of DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games.
The average...
From The Verge: Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week. While Microsoft is primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted by the cuts.
The cuts work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft...
From PC World: Printers are one of the banes of modern computing, expensive and frustrating relics that are nonetheless occasionally necessary. Over the last few years, HP seems to be doing its best to make them even more expensive and frustrating by milking the infamously exploitative ink market...
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