From PC World: By the end of the year, end-to-end encryption will be switched on by default in Facebook Messenger, Meta says. That means Meta’s servers won’t be able to read your communications — only the sender and receiver can read end-to-end encrypted messages in plain text. Users have already...
From CNET: People living in remote parts of the US may soon find it a little easier to get access to broadband. More than $667 million in grants and loans will be given to 22 states and the Marshall Islands to connect rural residents and businesses with high-speed internet, the US Department of...
From The Verge: Meta released a new speech-to-text model that can translate nearly 100 languages called SeamlessM4T, as the company continues to try to make a universal translator.
SeamlessM4T, which stands for Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation, that the company said can...
From PC World: Who wants to play full-power PC games on a Chromebook? At least a few people, presumably, since Google and its manufacturing partners have made “gaming Chromebooks” for a year or so. But with some screen upgrades and RGB keyboards, these machines are very clearly intended to be used...
From CNET: AT&T is finally expanding its use of 5G for home internet. On Tuesday, the wireless carrier announced that it is expanding its fixed wireless offering to 16 new markets, offering home broadband over 5G for $55 per month.
Called "Internet Air," the new markets include "areas of Los...
From The Verge: Almost two years after its initial announcement in October 2021, Samsung says the first game to support the HDR10 Plus Gaming standard is nearing release. That game is The First Descendant, a free-to-play third-person shooter from Nexon which is running an open beta starting...
From PC World: Browsers are getting more capable and more complex, becoming little software ecosystems in their own right. And that’s increasingly making them targets. Browser extensions, while incredibly popular for the tools and tweaks they add, are an easy vector to get spyware and other nasty...
From CNET: iPhone owners who were part of a class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging it deliberately slowed down its old iPhones to get people to upgrade to the latest model, will finally be getting their payout. A judge has cleared the way for the payments to proceed, as reported last week by...
Over the summer, I was helping my girlfriend's sister with her math as she was getting ahead of her upcoming year with summer school. If you know me, you will know mathematics was my favorite subject back when I was still in school. It always felt like problem solving with numbers. However, there were two issues I found while returning to math now for teaching. For one, a lot of it was remembering what was taught in Grade 11. Obviously, we use...
Continuing on my little fan discussion from my Corsair MP600 Core XT 2TB review introduction, Skrillex surprised me with two new albums earlier this year. His new albums, Quest For Fire and Don't Get Too Close, sound much different than his earlier music for reasons I can understand. Artists typically want to change their sound from time to time to evolve their music, which is exactly what Skrillex did with his new albums. His newer music was...
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