Palit made a silent, passive-cooled version of the RTX 3050 6GB GPU

From PC World: It doesn’t use a 25-pound block of solid copper, but a variant of the brand new 6GB version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 budget card can make do without an active cooling system just the same. Palit has just revealed the custom “KalmX” version of the card, preserving the same specs as...

Some Older Unlimited Wireless Plans Will Get a Price Hike Next Month

From CNET: Verizon customers with 5G Get More, 5G Play More, 5G Do More and 5G Start unlimited mobile plans will soon be seeing bigger bills. The mobile carrier has confirmed to CNET that it will be increasing the cost of those plans by $4, starting March 1.

"Starting March 1, Verizon customers on...

Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024

From Tom's Hardware: In Qualcomm's latest earnings call, CEO Cristiano Amon said the firm was aiming to launch its Snapdragon X Elite CPU alongside the "next version" of Windows, which the CEO expects to arrive in the middle of the year (via Beta News). While this aligns with previous rumors that...

Nvidia’s $169 GeForce RTX 3050 6GB might be the new budget GPU king

From PC World: Graphics cards are too expensive. I don’t think anyone would seriously disagree with me there — to get the same level of performance relative to where the industry was ten years ago, you’re looking at $100-300 more for a GPU. Options are particularly anemic under the $200 level, with...

Samsung Is Bringing HDR Photos to Instagram and I'm Thrilled

From CNET: During Samsung's Galaxy S24 smartphone launch, one little announced tidbit got me very excited: The devices will be able to upload HDR photos to Instagram.

The deal involves just one product family from one smartphone maker and one social media app. But I, a serious photographer, am...

Creative Live! Audio A3 Review (Page 1 of 4)

More recently, I have been watching a lot of Border Security: Australia's Front Line. For those who are unaware, Border Security is a show that films interesting people and items that come through the border of the country. The Canadian version has clips at the land borders, international airports, and at mail processing centers. Usually, the cases involve people coming for reasons that do not match their visas or with contraband. For the...

Adobe brings Lightroom and Firefly AI to the Apple Vision Pro

From The Verge: Adobe’s Firefly AI, the text-to-image tool behind features like Photoshop’s generative fill, will be available on the Apple Vision Pro as a native app, alongside the company’s popular Lightroom photo editing software already demonstrated during the headset’s announcement.

The...

Comcast backs down on misleading ’10G’ Xfinity speed label

From PC World: The internet service industry is no stranger to somewhat nebulous claims of speed and reliability. But even in that context, Comcast’s self-styled “Xfinity 10G network” for its home internet business raised some eyebrows. After months of arguing with the cable industry’s self...

With Image Generation, Bard AI Shows It Has Something to Prove

From CNET: With its first birthday right around the corner, Google's conversational AI tool Bard is getting another upgrade.

Early reviews found Bard lagged behind competing chatbots in part because its responses were less human-like. Since then, Google has integrated its AI model Gemini, which...

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