A hot potato: Apple TV is considering a new way to pay actors and others involved with making a movie or television series. The status quo in Holywood is to pay for a movie or show as if its success is guaranteed. An internal document reveals that Cupertino wants to shake things up by switching […]
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Recap: The PC industry has been focused on CPUs based on Intel’s x86 instruction set since day one. Arm has tried to get its fair share of the market for quite some time, and the company is now starting yet another belligerent assault against Intel and AMD through several chipmaking partners. Arm Holdings is working
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What just happened? The problem of tracking devices like AirTags being misused to stalk people has been an issue since they first launched. Now, Apple and Google have announced that their previously confirmed industry specification for Bluetooth tracking devices is being rolled out to iOS and Android platforms, which should go some way in preventing
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TL;DR: Anyone who regularly uses Microsoft Word probably knows the frustration of pasting text into a document only to see it ruin the formatting because it retained its original size, color, and font. The common mistake will likely occur less often now, as Microsoft recently responded to customer feedback by changing the software’s default paste
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Forward-looking: OpenAI just introduced GPT-4o (GPT-4 Omni or “O” for short). The model is no “smarter” than GPT-4 but still some remarkable innovations set it apart: the ability to process text, visual, and audio data simultaneously, almost no latency between asking and answering, and an unbelievably human-sounding voice. While today’s chatbots are some of the
The big picture: The Nintendo 64 is a classic at this point, but that doesn’t mean fans have forgotten about the console. It has been nearly 28 years since Nintendo launched the 3D-enabled gaming machine. Despite being formally discontinued in the early 2000s, the Nintendo 64 remains relevant to this day thanks to unwavering support
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A hot potato: Despite Windows 10’s global user base remaining larger than Windows 11 by a wide margin, AMD is reportedly set to stop providing drivers for the older OS starting with its Strix Point APUs. It comes as Team Red, like every other company, champions itself as an investor in all things AI, hence
In a nutshell: Carbon dioxide, one of the worst greenhouse gases contributing to human-made climate change, keeps rising at an alarming rate. The latest Keeling Curve data taken at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in March 2024 says that the monthly average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now 4.7 parts per million (ppm) higher
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Rumor mill: It’s only been a few days since Nintendo finally confirmed a successor to the Switch would arrive sometime before April 2025. Now, leaks could have revealed what specs the next-gen handset will be packing, as well as a potential launch window. Users on the Famiboards forum who have been tracking customers and shipping
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A hot potato: As PCIe versions continue pushing for higher bandwidth with faster transfer rates, the increased speeds are indirectly leading to excess heat generation – a challenge Intel is tackling in a whole new way with an updated Linux driver. The open-source “PCIe bandwidth controller” aims to automatically throttle link speeds when thermals reach
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