From PC World: 34-inch ultrawide monitors, with a spacious 3440×1440 resolution, are a hit with gamers. (And PCWorld writers — I’m looking at one right now.) The extra-wide field of view is great for immersion, and the resolution is sharp without being as heavy on the GPU as a 4K screen. But these...
From Tom's Hardware: It seems that AMD's issued patch for its Zen 1 "Division by zero" bug wasn't the end-all, be-all the company wanted it to be. While the company was fast in issuing a patch, there's now the suspicion that they might've been just a bit too fast: according to Michael Larabel with...
From PC Mag: Amazon is starting to use ChatGPT-like AI technology to summarize user reviews.
It'll appear for "a subset of mobile shoppers in the US." The goal is to make it easier for consumers to quickly glean the pros and cons of an item.
“We want to make it even easier for customers to...
From PC Mag: It looks like the cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is off because—to no one's surprise—the two rival CEOs can’t agree on anything.
On Sunday, Zuckerberg called out Musk for essentially jerking him around and trying to delay the fight. According to him, Musk first wants...
From TechCrunch: Iraq’s telecom ministry lifted the ban on Telegram over the weekend, days after the agency blocked the chat app over security concerns.
The ministry said it lifted the ban because of the “response of the company that owns the application to the requirements of the security...
From Tom's Hardware: Apple's M3-series system-on-chips is expected to get a major performance upgrade compared to predecessors since they are projected to be made on TSMC's N3 (3 nm-class) fabrication processor and use all-new CPU and GPU microarchitectures. Indeed, the highest-end M3 Ultra will...
From TechCrunch: PayPal is gaining a new CEO, the payments giant announced this morning. Effective September 27, 2023, senior Intuit executive Alex Chriss will become PayPal’s President and CEO, replacing current CEO Dan Schulman, members of PayPal’s board shared this morning in a press release...
If there is one thing we have not written about in a while, it is the stories from our church summer conference. For the past three years, it had been canceled and while this decision was understandable, I dearly missed this annual tradition. There were some changes this year around, including almost everyone having their own dorm room, as well as new facilities and buildings. On the other hand, some things remained exactly as expected, even...
From The Verge: FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been on house arrest in California since December while awaiting trial on fraud and money laundering charges over the crypto exchange’s collapse, but today he was sent to jail, as first reported by Inner City Press.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan...
From ExtremeTech: Apple didn't invent Bluetooth trackers, but the release of the AirTag in 2021 was still a seminal moment for people who can't keep track of their keys. The accuracy of AirTags also made them a favorite tool of stalkers and car thieves, and Apple's iPhone-focused mitigations left...
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