Sweet: Astronomers led by a team at MIT have discovered a gas giant in our own galaxy that’s unlike anything observed to date. The new planet, named WASP-193b (WASP being short for the Wide Angle Search for Planets consortium), is located more than 1,200 light years from Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. The planet […]
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Seeing your favorite PC and home console games run on a tiny handheld machine is always paired with that “wow” moment of sheer admiration for the technology that makes such a feat possible. One such watershed moment in my personal gaming journey was seeing Disney’s Aladdin and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater run on a Nokia
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What just happened? As soon as Google became heavily involved in generative AI, it was only a matter of time before the company began using the technology to display responses to search engine queries. That day has arrived, as Google will now attempt to organize and contextualize results using its Gemini AI. Unfortunately, typical issues
Forward-looking: The software capabilities of mobile devices have begun closely resembling those of PCs in recent years, and a new Windows-to-Android emulation layer aims to bridge the gap. Outside testing shows that with some customization, Android phones and tablets can run PC games like Fallout at playable framerates. Android users recently gained a new option
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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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