High-Speed Internet for Rural Areas Gets Over $600 Million From USDA

From CNET: People living in remote parts of the US may soon find it a little easier to get access to broadband. More than $667 million in grants and loans will be given to 22 states and the Marshall Islands to connect rural residents and businesses with high-speed internet, the US Department of...

Meta releases multilingual speech translation model

From The Verge: Meta released a new speech-to-text model that can translate nearly 100 languages called SeamlessM4T, as the company continues to try to make a universal translator.

SeamlessM4T, which stands for Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation, that the company said can...

Google axes Chromebooks with discrete Nvidia GPUs

From PC World: Who wants to play full-power PC games on a Chromebook? At least a few people, presumably, since Google and its manufacturing partners have made “gaming Chromebooks” for a year or so. But with some screen upgrades and RGB keyboards, these machines are very clearly intended to be used...

Chrome will warn you about malware-infested extensions

From PC World: Browsers are getting more capable and more complex, becoming little software ecosystems in their own right. And that’s increasingly making them targets. Browser extensions, while incredibly popular for the tools and tweaks they add, are an easy vector to get spyware and other nasty...

Apple to Start Paying Out $500M in iPhone Slowdown Lawsuit

From CNET: iPhone owners who were part of a class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging it deliberately slowed down its old iPhones to get people to upgrade to the latest model, will finally be getting their payout. A judge has cleared the way for the payments to proceed, as reported last week by...

ROCCAT Vulcan II Mini Air Review (Page 1 of 3)

Over the summer, I was helping my girlfriend's sister with her math as she was getting ahead of her upcoming year with summer school. If you know me, you will know mathematics was my favorite subject back when I was still in school. It always felt like problem solving with numbers. However, there were two issues I found while returning to math now for teaching. For one, a lot of it was remembering what was taught in Grade 11. Obviously, we use...

DeepCool AK400 Digital Review (Page 1 of 4)

Continuing on my little fan discussion from my Corsair MP600 Core XT 2TB review introduction, Skrillex surprised me with two new albums earlier this year. His new albums, Quest For Fire and Don't Get Too Close, sound much different than his earlier music for reasons I can understand. Artists typically want to change their sound from time to time to evolve their music, which is exactly what Skrillex did with his new albums. His newer music was...

Twitch will let streamers ban users from watching their streams

From The Verge: Twitch is rolling out an update next month that will finally allow streamers to block banned users from viewing their streams. Currently, Twitch allows you to ban users from the chat section of a stream, but they can still view streams.

Twitch revealed earlier this week, during its...

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