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How can something be both familiar, yet different at the same time? I got to experience this when I went to Halifax, Nova Scotia. I was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and never really explored the rest of Canada until I was in high school. However, my experience with Halifax was very unique. While I was still in Canada, a country I believed myself to be familiar with, Halifax proved to be noticeably different, whether it be from the...

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With American Thanksgiving and Black Friday traditionally signaling the beginning of the holiday season, I think it is always interesting to see how the shops change their marketing tactics. Up here in Canada, Thanksgiving is back in October, so the transition is a bit longer, spanning from Halloween to Christmas. This is to be expected, as all of these events, with Black Friday in particular, are opportunities to bring in potential customers. On...

Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI

From The Verge: Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days. Former president Greg Brockman, who quit in protest of Altman’s firing, will return as well.

The company said in a statement late Tuesday that...

96-Core AMD Threadripper Hits 6GHz on All Cores With LN2

From ExtremeTech: AMD's overclocking team has been hard at work over the past week overclocking the company's latest Threadripper CPU to see just how far they can go with it. They started their tests on a high-end air cooler before moving to an exotic liquid cooler, and as we predicted when they...

Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot rolls out to Windows 10 testers

From PC World: Microsoft has started to roll out the Copilot AI tool introduced with Windows 11 to Windows 10 computers. Windows 10 Insider test versions get first crack at Copilot, if they’re running a current version of the operating system.

Windows 10 Insider testers can now try out the Copilot...

Russia Sends 61% Of Google Content Removal Requests: Report

From Forbes: According to a new report by VPN maker Surfshark, Russia accounts for 61% of global content removal requests over the past decade all by itself, and the pace is increasing. Worldwide removal demands surged 50% last year to over 90,000, and Russia accounted for fully 58,000 of those...

Intel and TSMC could lose billions in chip factory funding thanks to stalled German budget

From Tom's Hardware: Subsidies that multinational chipmakers are set to receive to build their fabs in Europe will come from two sources: the European Union itself, as part of the European Chips Act approved in July, and individual states. So far, Germany has promised $22 billion in incentives to...

OpenAI’s board may be coming around to Sam Altman returning

From TechCrunch: OpenAI’s board of directors is reportedly in talks with Sam Altman, ex-Y Combinator president and an OpenAI co-founder, to return to OpenAI as CEO as soon as this week.

That’s according to Bloomberg, which in a brief this morning — citing sources close to the matter — said that...

Microsoft: We're Ready to Pay All OpenAI Employees to Join us

From PC Mag: Microsoft says it’s ready to hire all of OpenAI’s employees should they leave, some of whom make north of $1 million.

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott tweeted the offer today after 95%+ of OpenAI’s employees signed a letter, threatening to resign from the San Francisco lab unless ousted CEO...

Nvidia RTX 4080, 4070 Ti Expected to Be Sold Out by December

From ExtremeTech: It's widely known now that Nvidia is cooking up some Super GPUs that it expects to launch in early January at CES. Last week, we reported Nvidia is allegedly ending production of the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti to make way for their Super successors, but now a new ripple has to do with...