From PC Mag: The European Commission this week unconditionally approved Amazon's $8.45 billion acquisition of movie and TV studio MGM. Based on its investigation, the council concluded that the merger would raise no competition concerns among film and audio-visual content markets in the EU.
"The...
From CNET: Intel on Tuesday revealed plans for a second new "megafab," a chipmaking site in Magdeburg, Germany, that's the centerpiece of an expected $88 billion in investments across several European countries. The capacity expansion comes on top of other gargantuan spending commitments in the...
From The Verge: Xiaomi has announced the international version of the Xiaomi 12 Pro, its first global flagship phone since dropping the “Mi” branding. As with earlier phones in the Mi series like last year’s Mi 11, it’s a high-end device that seeks to beat competitors like Samsung on price...
From PC Mag: AMD’s AM4 socket platform has had a good run—it presided over the company's spectacular, phoenix-like ascent in desktop processors with the introduction of the first Ryzen family in 2017. But its time as a leading-edge platform is almost at an end. AMD has already announced that its AM5...
From CNET: The Mini's time in the iPhone lineup may be done. While Apple did unveil an iPhone 13 Mini in September, the company has no plans to include the smaller version of the phone in its iPhone 14 lineup, according to a 9to5Mac report on Monday.
Sources tell the site that the lineup for the as...
From The Verge: Russia’s promised ban on Instagram has kicked into effect today, with the social media platform inaccessible for the vast majority of the country’s population, according to internet monitoring service GlobalCheck.
The country announced plans to ban Instagram last week, in response...
From PC Mag: Amidst an ongoing semiconductor shortage, Ford plans to sell some Explorer SUVs without the chips required to power rear air conditioning and heating controls.
The vehicles still have heating and AC—they're just controllable only from the front seats. The missing chips will ship...
From CNET: Samsung is holding another Galaxy launch event this week to show off some of its latest midrange and budget phones that are coming out in 2022. Unlike the Galaxy S and foldable Galaxy Z phones, these are the more affordable models, which pack essential features for budget prices.
Samsung...
It is quite easy to see when people are passionate about something as opposed to when they could not care less. This is probably more obvious in person, especially when they talk about their specific subject. Not only is their speech full of variances in tone and emotion, but they also are probably subject matter experts. It is possible this is how they normally talk, but it usually contrasts with how they communicate for other things...
The recent snowfall in Calgary made me thinking about snow shoveling very seriously. It may be March, but in Canada, we still need to take care of a few inches of snow from time to time. In terms of snow removal on my driveway and sidewalk, there are main two methods to work with for a normal household: One is a shovel and the other is a snow blower. Most of my neighbors use a shovel, as it is lightweight, easy to use, and most importantly, cheap...
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