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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From The Verge: Elgato is finally ready to launch its HDMI 2.1 cards and on February 1st, or 2/1, no less. After months of teasers, there are now two options for gamers wanting to capture footage from the latest Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles at higher framerates and resolution. The $229.99 4K X is...
From PC World: AMD may have just launched the Ryzen 8000 series of mobile processors, but company executives confirmed that its next mobile processor, Strix Point, will make the leap to the next-generation Zen 5 architecture.
The disclosure was made by Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s chief executive officer...
From CNET: The recent news of ADT closing its solar division may be leaving you with one big question: What happens to me if my solar company closes down? What happens to its warranties?
The good news is ADT will honor its warranties, an ADT representative told CNET in an email:
"ADT stands...
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