From PC World: With the big AI providers cracking down on usage limits for their most powerful agentic features, it’s tempting to kiss our ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini subscriptions goodbye and go all-in with local AI–and it’s certainly doable, if you’re willing to pay for it.
AMD is the latest to...
From CNET: If you owned an Android during the last nine years, you could soon see a little extra cash. For years, Google has been accused of harvesting data from Android phones without users' consent. Following a California lawsuit that was settled for $314 million last year, a new settlement could...
From PC Mag: Google's I/O announcements included updates to its monthly storage and AI subscription plans, as well as a new perk: YouTube Premium.
The $19.99-per-month Google AI Pro comes with 5TB of storage, expanded Gemini usage credits, and now, a YouTube Premium Lite subscription. There's also...
From PC World: For a while now, it’s been possible to authenticate your Microsoft account logins by receiving a six-digit code via text message. Windows Latest now reports that SMS verification will be phased out shortly.
It looks like Microsoft wants users who still rely on SMS verification to...
From CNET: Remember those upbeat newscasts in The Hunger Games, filled with big smiles, snazzy music cuts and flamboyant outfits? It's all exciting and opulent for the few -- while the rest of the population faces starvation, uncertainty and fear.
I kept thinking about that pointed contrast during...
From PC Mag: Free Perplexity Pro subscriptions have been easy to find over the last few years, with many partners offering promo codes for up to a year of use. If you're using Perplexity's promotional service, you may find your access is now less useful than it was before.
Many Perplexity Pro users...
From PC World: Well, we knew it was coming, but now it’s more or less official. According to reports coming out of a PlayStation Studios meeting today, major single-player narrative games from Sony’s first-party publisher will no longer be coming to PC. That marks the end of a short but enjoyable...
From CNET: Apple is leveraging AI to boost its accessibility features.
The company shared a handful of updates on Tuesday designed to make its products more helpful for people with a range of disabilities. Apple Intelligence, the tech giant's suite of AI features, powers some of these new...
What has changed in the last 16 years? I would say the world has changed quite a bit since 2010. At the time, I was just an undergraduate engineering student barely passing my classes, still living with my parents, and drove a Honda Civic. The S&P 500 was around 1100, and the median house price in Calgary was $400,000. APH Networks was five years old, and our editorial team had five people. We worked with about 70 manufacturers, publishing...
From PC Mag: Meta’s top-tier Ray-Ban Display augmented reality smart glasses offer impressive hardware, but PCMag’s review found the software limited, with too many ties to Meta’s own apps. That may soon change with third-party developers getting involved.
Meta announced several new features this...
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