Microsoft finally adds some useful Widgets to monitor your PC

From PC World: If you’ve complained that Windows’ own Widgets simply clutter up your screen with junk stories, pay attention: There are several new, useful widgets that a recent Microsoft app makes available for you to use.

You might not think that the Microsoft Dev Home app would add anything...

Amazon to Pay $30M Over Ring and Alexa Data Privacy Violations

From CNET: Amazon will pay two separate penalties for privacy violations: $25 million for allegedly not deleting children's data and $5.8 million for failing to restrict access to Ring security videos, the Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday.

Amazon's settlement with the FTC followed a...

Cooler Master Announces MasterHUB and MasterControl

From Cooler Master Press Release: Cooler Master announces two groundbreaking products, the MasterHUB and MasterControl. These products redefine the boundaries of hardware and software integration, offering an unparalleled user experience for gamers, streamers, and content creators.

The MasterHUB is...

Twitter just closed the book on academic research

From The Verge: Twitter was once a mainstay of academic research — a way to take the pulse of the internet. But as new owner Elon Musk has attempted to monetize the service, researchers are struggling to replace a once-crucial tool. Unless Twitter makes another about-face soon, it could close the...

Asus made a graphics card with no power cables

From PC World: It’s official: PC component makers have declared war on cables. (That’s the cables that crisscross inside your PC case, specifically, not power/data cables in general or Marvel time travels from the grimdark future.) The latest innovation comes from Asus, which has created a GPU...

Crucial Unleashes World’s Fastest Gen5 Consumer NVMe SSD

From Crucial Press Release: Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the Crucial Pro Series which features memory and storage products designed for gamers, content creators, workstation professionals or anyone needing the benefits of a robust, high-performance computing experience with...

Apple’s original cloud photo sync service shuts down this summer

From The Verge: I have two pieces of news for you this morning. The first is that My Photo Stream, the free cloud-based photo syncing feature Apple launched in 2011, is still up and running in 2023. That’s despite it being effectively superseded by iCloud Photo Library roughly eight years ago. Now...

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