From CNET: Zelle -- the banking industry's answer to PayPal, Venmo and CashApp -- has become a digital payment powerhouse. It's now baked into more than 2,000 banking apps, making it easy (and free) to transfer money instantly from one party to another.
However, the instantaneous nature of payments...
Over the past year, I learned a lot about constraints. Since January, a group of the youth in our church had been working on a musical to perform during Christmas. This started from the ground up, including creating the plot, writing songs with accompanying lyrics, designing set pieces, and memorizing all of the lines to speak and sing. It was a wild journey. As they were set to perform earlier this month, it was not until the latter half of the...
From TechCrunch: Following competition objections raised on Google in Germany this summer over bundling of services including Google Maps via its Android-based in-car infotainment system software, known as Google Automotive Services (GAS), the tech giant has made an offer of some service unbundling...
From The Verge: Earlier this month, Google announced the release of Gemini, what it considers its most powerful AI model yet. It integrated Gemini immediately into its flagship generative AI chatbot, Bard, in hopes of steering more users away from its biggest competitor, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
ChatGPT...
From PC World: One of the best things about building with AMD hardware in the last few years has been the longevity of the AM4 processor socket, which was the standard for Ryzen CPUs for five years. AMD is hoping to keep that trend going with the AM5 socket that debuted last year with the new...
From G.Skill Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd. is excited to announce WigiDash, a customizable and versatile widget dashboard device. The WigiDash PC Command Panel is designed to display up to 20 on-screen buttons or widgets in a 5x4 grid, allowing users to monitor system...
From Tom's Hardware: A Sony executive told Reuters that the company's PlayStation 5 game console sales had hit 50 million units. This milestone comes three years after its launch in late 2020. Sony praised strong performance during Black Friday sales and touted how well the system continues to sell...
From The Verge: It’s over for Windows Mixed Reality. In an update to a list of deprecated Windows features, Microsoft added Windows Mixed Reality, along with the accompanying Mixed Reality Portal app and Windows Mixed Reality for Steam VR.
The company says Windows Mixed Reality is “deprecated and...
From PC World: It seems like hackers breaching the defenses of major corporations has become just another fact of modern life, to the point that we just kind of ignore it if it doesn’t actively affect us. That might be hard to do for customers of internet service provider Comcast. The company was...
From Tom's Hardware: RISC-V-based processors have been making inroads into a wide range of applications, from tiny microcontrollers to data center processors. However, RISC-V hasn't been used for many consumer or gaming devices (except, perhaps, in the form of the microcontrollers mentioned above)...
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