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Apple launches three new apps on Windows 10 and later to replace iTunes

What just happened? Apple has been migrating PCs away from iTunes for years in favor of separate music, video, and device management apps. The process is nearing completion as the Cupertino giant’s media apps receive a stable release for all Windows users. How much time iTunes has left remains unclear. All Windows 10 and Windows […]

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NASA will need a miracle to fix glitched Voyager 1 probe

In a nutshell: The most distant human-made object from Earth is on life support following a computer glitch late last year that risks ending the mission. In mid-November, the nearly 50-year-old space probe lost the ability to send back crucial telemetry data to engineers here on Earth. Without the valuable insights, flight control specialists have

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Knowledge workers who don’t use AI will fall behind, says top executive

It’s not surprising that Reid Hoffman, who co-authored a book with GPT-4, and served as an OpenAI director, believes that knowledge workers who don’t use AI will get left behind. Hoffman is an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and venture capitalist who served on the board during the founding of PayPal, later becoming its COO, and in

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Japan will provide more public subsidies to Kioxia and Western Digital for NAND memory chip manufacturing

In a nutshell: Kioxia and Western Digital stand as two of the world’s largest memory manufacturers. While both companies recently faced challenges due to a decline in the NAND flash market, the Japanese government is eager to support them in their efforts to recover and effectively contribute to the anticipated surge in chip production. Japan’s

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Intel Core Ultra NPUs receive a boost from Windows 11 DirectML preview

Something to look forward to: Because DirectML and Neural Processing Units (NPUs) were specifically designed to facilitate machine learning and other AI applications, it was only a matter of time before these two technologies became integrated. Microsoft and Intel have announced the initial step in this collaboration, enabling developers to begin creating applications that support

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Sony’s latest PS5 beta update brings AI noise cancellation to the controller

TL;DR: Sony’s PS5 beta update introduces AI noise cancellation, a louder speaker, and various entertaining features to the controller. These enhancements aim to create a more immersive and interactive gaming experience, coinciding with the recent release of some of the console’s most popular titles. Sony has released a new beta software update for the PlayStation

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Tablet shipments hit their lowest volume since 2011 last year, but Chinese vendors mitigated the decline

In brief: A lot of industries had a terrible 2023. PCs, smartphones, components and more suffered huge declines, as did tablets, which saw shipments fall to their lowest annual volume since 2011. And unlike other products, tablets didn’t have a positive fourth quarter, either, experiencing the largest decline since 2016. Preliminary data from the International

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Custom data center reaches 64 GT/s through optical PCIe 6.0

Forward-looking: When the group that manages PCIe specifications finalized PCIe 6.0 in 2022, it indicated that data centers would be its earliest adopters. Its roadmap is beginning to play out as a new demonstration of optical connections shows how PCIe 6.0 can increase cluster sizes. A custom data center from Nubis Communications and Alphawave Semi

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Bluesky opens the floodgates, ends invite-only system

The big picture: With its core infrastructure now set for primetime after extensive development, Bluesky Social could finally garner the awareness it deserves. The platform, supported by Jack Dorsey and an expanding community of decentralization proponents, presents a compelling open-source vision at a time when dissatisfaction with major centralized social apps is on the rise.

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