After the turkey comes the tidal wave of Black Friday ads. But it looks like AMD is getting into the holiday spirit a few days early. US and European retailers are cutting prices on AMD’s entire Ryzen 7000 CPU family. The Ryzen 7000 series’ pricing at launch wasn’t bad, exactly. But swapping out the AM4
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google Nest Wifi Pro review: easy to use, inexpensive, no subscriptions, and nice design, but Ethernet limited to 1Gbps, no Assistant, and few parental options — A big upgrade over its predecessors, Google’s Nest Wifi Pro adds Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, bringing faster speeds, and improved reliability.
Read MoreThe latest iPhones may not blow minds, but they’re still taking down all comers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Everywhere you turned over the last few years, someone was promising The Next Big Thing After Smartphones. Yes, they’d say, the iPhone is the most ubiquitous product in the history of consumer
Read MoreAJ Vicens / CyberScoop: In its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta attributes a pro-US campaign to US military-run phony Facebook accounts, Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts — People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups …
Read MoreThe Elephant Card supports your iPhone for use as a full-featured Mac webcam. It costs less than $10 and folds up flat to easily fit into a pocket or wallet. Continue reading…
Read MoreA perfect storm of peak-demand, Covid-19 concerns and tough living conditions cause clashes at Foxconn plant.
Read MoreAlthough the various technologies that make up what’s been dubbed “Web 3” are unlikely to replace the massive infrastructure and software investments we’ve made during the past three decades, there’s still something interesting there. The first question we need to ask is, what problems can they solve? Web 3 proponents suggest that at heart, it’s
Read MoreTogether, the Java Development Kit (JDK), the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) form a powerful trifecta of Java and Jakarta EE platform components for developing and running Java applications. They all work together to let developers build and run Java programs. I’ve previously introduced the JDK and JVM. In this quick
Read MoreMark Sweney / The Guardian: The UK’s National Audit Office says a 2% digital services tax on the gross revenue of Amazon, Apple, and other US giants reaped almost £360M in its first year — Figure raised exceeds what most of the digital businesses have been paying in UK corporation tax
Read MoreVideos shared on social media appear to show workers being kicked by hazmat-suited officials during Foxconn protests in Zhengzhou, central China. | Image: @StephenMcDonell Protests have broken out at Foxconn’s vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, central China, as footage circulating on social media shows workers clashing with baton-wielding riot police and hazmat-suited officials. The protests
Read MoreGrasslands are being overrun by drought-resistant invaders that wreck animal habitats, suck up water supplies, and can cost landowners a fortune.
Read MoreThis compact, cordless vacuum is expensive—but it’s a dust-buster you’ll want to use over and over again.
Read MoreAmid Twitter chaos and Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid, the conservative social network is having a moment of its own.
Read MoreIt’s now possible to mass-produce pheromones that keep insects from breeding near crops—protecting cereals and other staples with fewer chemicals.
Read MoreWhile it was launched in 2019, the viral Twitter alternative grew to over a million users almost overnight. Here’s how it works.
Read MoreHaving a dual- or quad-core CPU is not very exotic these days and CPUs with 12 or even 16 cores aren’t that rare. The Andromeda from Cerebras is a supercomputer with 13.5 million cores. The company claims it is one of the largest AI supercomputers ever built (but not the largest) and can perform 120
Read MorePaid Time Off or otherwise known as PTO, is a symbolic element of the modern work culture around the world. At some companies, PTO is simply a given, allowing employees to take their paid time off during the year whenever it suits their schedule the best. In other cases, some staffers will receive time off from work,
Read MoreApple TV Plus is the only place to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving this holiday season and you can do it for free, too.
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / Washington Post: An interview with @dril on Elon Musk’s Twitter, which he says is “a work in progress”, like Hyperloop, and will be a “beautiful thing at the end of the day” — The ‘patron saint of the internet’ tells The Post he’ll never pay for verification but will learn to code
Read MoreFor the first time in human history, we have rudimentary planetary defense technology that could someday prevent a major asteroid impact. However, a new study from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies calls attention to a more likely and harder-to-solve apocalypse: volcanoes. The study points to Venus as an example, suggesting that a period of
Read MoreA big upgrade over its predecessors, Google’s Nest Wifi Pro adds Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, bringing faster speeds, and improved reliability. It’s not a ‘Pro’ router — for top throughput, look elsewhere — but it packs a lot into an affordable package. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Today’s leading smartphone cameras deliver impressive picture quality, offering minimal noise in most conditions, flexible zoom, great low-light capabilities, and more. The differences ultimately boil down to colors, white balance, and other variables. Android Authority colleague and head of photography Edgar Cervantes recently put his editing prowess to the
Read MoreThe newly announced Honor Magic VS. | Image: Honor Honor’s second foldable will eventually release outside of China, and people are getting confused about a new car logo. Continue reading…
Read MoreBloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue down 9.7% YoY to ~$9.85B, slightly above estimates, and a ~$210M net loss, following a ~$420M writedown on investments — Xiaomi Corp.’s quarterly revenue fell almost 10% as it battled a slumping global smartphone market and weak consumer demand at home.
Read MoreJulian Mark / Washington Post: Digital World Acquisition Corp. says investors voted to extend the deadline to merge with Truth Social to September 2023, pending an investigation by regulators — The move by shareholders of the company that would merge with Trump Media & Technology Group buys time as regulators investigate the proposed deal.
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