From ExtremeTech: 2022 was the year of companies jumping on the metaverse bandwagon. Facebook got the ball rolling in June by chasing its name to Meta. From there, not a month passed without some big-name company crowing about its plans for the metaverse. It seems like 2023 could be the year...
From The Verge: Google has released optimization features designed to improve battery life and memory usage on machines running the latest version of its Chrome desktop web browser. Chrome’s new Energy Saver and Memory Saver modes were first announced in December last year alongside the release of...
From PC Mag: China's first competitor to ChatGPT launched publicly yesterday, but within a few hours it had crashed.
As Reuters reports(Opens in a new window), a team working at the NLP Lab at Fudan University developed the conversational language model known as MOSS. It's described as being able...
From PC Mag: Microsoft President Brad Smith today announced the company has signed a binding 10-year legal agreement with Nintendo for Call of Duty games.
The formal agreement follows a promise made by Microsoft back in December to bring the gaming franchise to Nintendo hardware once the Activision...
From CNET: Microsoft Bing's AI chatbot made headlines last week after several instances where it acted in unexpected ways. In one case, the AI chatbot told a New York Times columnist it was in love with him and attempted to convince him he was unhappy in his marriage.
Since then, Microsoft has set...
I was recently at work when my coworker showed me an email my company had sent out to the employees in another city. Apparently, there was a geese control issue, as the birds would gather around the entrances of the office and settle there. The animals would become aggressive in defending their home. While any pest activity can definitely become a serious issue, the next things I read made me truly laugh. First of all, they hired external...
It has been really interesting getting to see several of my friends getting into the custom mechanical keyboard hobby. After receiving my first personal GMK keycap set, I had gotten many messages about them, which then sparked further conversation about upcoming and current group buys for keyboards. It has been really crazy to see how far the custom mechanical keyboard seen has gotten with the recent releases of budget keyboards with premium...
From ComputerWorld: Many enterprise professionals have been hoping Microsoft would agree to authorize Windows for use on Apple Silicon Macs inside Alludo’s Parallels Desktop.
Now, they officially can. Parallels Desktop is finally an authorized solution for Arm versions of Windows 11 on Macs running...
From PC Mag: The FBI confirmed a "cyber incident" has occurred involving one of its computer systems.
As CNN reports(Opens in a new window), the system in question is used by the bureau to carry out child sexual exploitation investigations, and two sources claim the focus of the malicious cyber...
From PC Mag: Tesla on Thursday released a statement(Opens in a new window) that denies the terminations were retaliatory and argues that the framing is a "false allegation" by the union committee.
Tesla says the timing of the dismissals coincided with a regular, bi-annual performance cycle that...
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