Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma

From The Verge: Following mounting pressure from regulators in the UK and EU, Adobe and Figma announced on Monday that both companies are mutually terminating their merger agreement, which would have seen Adobe acquire the Figma product design platform for $20 billion.

As a result of the...

MSI says motherboards supporting 256GB RAM are coming soon

From PC World: You can never have too much memory, in the same sense that you can never have too much toilet paper. If this philosophy appeals to you, you might want to check out the latest news from manufacturer MSI. The company announced that it’s enabling support for up to 256GB of DDR5 RAM on at...

Chrome Will Start Blocking Websites From Tracking Us in January

From CNET: Years after rival web browsers made the move, Google Chrome on Jan. 4 will begin blocking websites from using third-party cookies, the easiest way to track our online behavior as we move around the web.

The browser will block third-party cookies for 1% of users on computers and Android...

Thermaltake SWAFAN GT12 Review (Page 1 of 4)

I was talking to a friend about playlists, and they seemed to have the same methodology of making playlists as my brother. This method was having all of the songs they listen to in a single playlist. While I understand why someone might do this, I did think it was quite odd, as I am a person who has specific playlists for specific times, whether that be driving, working, reading, or anything else for that matter. The separation and distinction in...

Naughty Dog cancels its The Last of Us multiplayer game

From The Verge: Naughty Dog announced Thursday that it’s canceled the multiplayer game it was building in The Last of Us universe.

The studio says it has been in pre-production on The Last of Us Online even while working on The Last of Us Part II. “We were enthusiastic about the direction in which...

Intel kicks off the ‘AI PC’ era with Core Ultra chips

From PC World: Intel’s Core Ultra era begins now! Intel is shipping its first “Meteor Lake” 14th-gen Core Ultra chips in laptops beginning today, ushering in the new “AI PC” era — as well as actually telling you what’s in them and how fast they’re expected to be.

Though leaked benchmark results, we...

Vivo X100 Pro: A New Android Flagship Makes Global Debut

From CNET: On Thursday, the Vivo X100 Pro phone debuted globally after an earlier launch in China. The X100 Pro is part of Vivo's X Series and features a 6.78-inch AMOLED display complete with a 120Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of 3,000 nits.

While Vivo might not be as globally recognized...

AI Helps Chipmakers Design the Very Processors That Speed Up AI

From CNET: You probably know that Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung and just about anybody else who makes processors is stuffing their products with circuitry to accelerate AI tasks. What you might not know is that AI is also being used to accelerate the design of those very processors.

Case in...

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