Intel’s new graphics drivers automatically optimize game settings

From The Verge: Intel is introducing a new feature for its processors with integrated graphics, allowing games to be automatically optimized on systems. The feature is similar to Nvidia’s GeForce Experience, an application that’s designed to tweak game settings so they work best on a laptop or PC...

Facebook Opens Access to 'Community Help' Tool

From PC Mag: Facebook today announced a significant expansion of its Community Help crisis response tool.

Launched last year, Community Help lets people ask for or offer things like shelter, food, and supplies in the event of a natural disaster, "accidental" crises like building fires, and violent...

Apple acknowledges HomePod leaves white ring on wooden surfaces

From CNET: Apple would like you to know that you should think twice about putting it on an oiled wooden surface.

You see, Wirecutter observed that the HomePod caused white rings to appear on both an oiled butcher-block countertop and on a wooden side table.

No, Apple didn't suggest to Wirecutter...

Google Chrome's Ad Blocker Launches Tomorrow

From PC Mag: As it gears up to launch Chrome's built-in ad blocker tomorrow, Google today shared some details about how the new feature will work.

First announced in June, the new feature will remove only the most intrusive types of ads that violate the Coalition for Better Ads' standards, as...

Qualcomm's X24 Modem Pushes 4G LTE to 2Gbps

From PC Mag: The 4G/5G boundary is about to become really fuzzy. Today, Qualcomm announced the X24, a 4G LTE modem that can reach 2Gbps, or about half the maximum speed of its current 5G modem—and faster than the average 5G customer will receive for years.

The X24 does this through 7x carrier...

YouTube TV adds CNN, TNT and more, raises price to $40

From CNET: YouTube TV, one of numerous new services that deliver a bunch of live TV channels over the Internet, will cost $40 monthly if you sign up on March 13 or later. That's a $5 hike compared to the current price of $35.

The good news is that today YouTube TV is adding a nice chunk of networks...

ARM Unveils Project Trillium, a New AI Chip Family

From PC Mag: ARM has built a new set of processors from the ground up to power an artificially intelligent world.

Ahead of Mobile World Congress, the ubiquitous chip maker is pulling back the curtain on Project Trillium—its new suite of products designed to enable machine learning (ML) anywhere and...

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