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...
From PC World: FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is AMD’s alternative to upscaler tech like Nvidia DLSS, and it’s pretty good. But the latest frame generation goodies in FSR 4 are only available to the latest Radeon 9000-series cards on the RDNA 4 architecture, a move that has rankled gamers using...
From CNET: There are a lot of smart glasses right now, including a lot of display glasses, which work specifically like plug-in monitors for your face. Xreal makes a number of them. A new set made along with Asus, the ROG Xreal R1, is arriving starting in June. They have a better refresh rate than...
From PC Mag: Netflix’s ad-supported tier is proving successful amid the cost-of-living crisis and households balancing price hikes across many streaming services. Even Netflix's own ad-supported plan saw a $1 hike in March, up to $8.99 a month.
At the recent Upfront conference, Netflix's annual...
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