From PC World: Intel said Tuesday that it is expanding what it calls its AI Acceleration program into midrange software vendors, launching an AI developer NUC to speed the process. It’s all a bid to lasso software developers and bring them under the Core Ultra banner.
For consumers, the program is...
From CNET: You no longer have to buy Samsung's Galaxy S24 lineup to get Galaxy AI, the new suite of AI-powered features that debuted earlier this year. Samsung will begin rolling out its One UI 6.1 update on March 28, which will bring Galaxy AI to older devices, including the Galaxy S23 lineup, the...
From The Verge: Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players. PS5 players will be able to automatically upload gameplay to help contribute to hint videos provided by game developers.
The...
From PC World: Mozilla’s services beyond its Firefox browser have been experiencing a shake-up lately — and the bumpy ride isn’t over yet. The company is now dropping its partner for Mozilla Monitor Plus, its paid data-broker cleanup service.
The news comes in the wake of the discovery that the CEO...
From CNET: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed one of the country's most restrictive social media bills into law Monday, banning children under the age of 14 from having accounts and requiring children aged 14 to 16 to have parental consent to hold one.
In addition to restrictions on teenage use of...
From The Verge: Microsoft has committed changes to Chromium that will improve text rendering on Windows machines. Following years of complaints, Chrome version 124 will finally support contrast and gamma values from the Windows ClearType Text Tuner for text rendering in Google’s browser.
This...
From PC Mag: Mozilla and a cohort of nearly 50 nonprofit organizations, AI firms, and academic researchers have signed and sent a letter to the US Department of Commerce's Secretary Gina Raimondo, advocating for increased transparency and true openness in AI development.
Mozilla and the Center for...
From PC World: Though it’s intentionally simple and there are some excellent alternatives, Microsoft’s humble Notepad text editor has gained a massive following through sheer ubiquity. Today it finally gets a feature that even the best writers (and also I) can’t live without: spell check. The...
For the past while, I have been frequenting a Starbucks near my current workplace for a regular coffee. It has gotten to a point where most of the employees now recognize me and know my order. An interesting evolution in my relationship with this Starbucks location is that they have begun to serve me free coffee for most of my visits, which is quite often, I might add. For reference to the frequency of the free drinks, in the month of February, I...
Have you ever visited a place where you know people, but you do not really know them well? I was recently feeling this way at my friend's church. As I walked through the doors, I actually recognized a handful of people seated and talking with others, but I did not feel close enough to just start talking to them. The majority of them were friends of friends, with only one or two that I had actually talked to in the past. In some ways, I feel like...
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