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AI advancements are fueling cloud infrastructure spending

The latest data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker paints a compelling picture of growth in cloud infrastructure sales on demand. The fourth quarter of 2023 saw an 18.5% year-over-year increase in spending on compute and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments. It is a significant shift in the technological landscape, where AI is

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Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for US’ chip manufacturing plans (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for US’ chip manufacturing plans  —  South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin

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Disney Plus will expand its password-sharing crackdown in the coming months

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Disney Plus will expand password-sharing restrictions. The company will expand the crackdown in June before a full rollout in September. Disney Plus introduced password-sharing restrictions in Canada late last year, as users were barred from sharing passwords with people outside their household. Unfortunately,

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Speed up searches using SearchValues in .NET

With the release of .NET 8, Microsoft introduced a plethora of new features and enhancements in the .NET Core and ASP.NET Core frameworks. One such feature is the SearchValues class, which marks a significant step forward in efficiently fetching data from data sets. SearchValues is a new type introduced in .NET 8 designed to improve

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The best Nothing Phone 2a cases

Did you get a Nothing Phone 2a? Congratulations! It is a great budget phone, and we gave it a good review. Like every other gadget, though, it comes with its downsides, one of them being that it has an IP54 rating, making it less resistant than other devices. If you want to keep your device

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Finally Taming Thunderbolt With Third-Party Chips

Thunderbolt has always been a functionally proprietary technology, held secret by Intel until “opening” the standard in a way that evidently wasn’t enough for anyone to meaningfully join in. At least, until last year, when we saw announcements about ASMedia developing two chips for Thunderbolt use. Now, we are starting to see open source, letting

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TOMOS Moped Becomes Electric Beast

The TOMOS 50cc moped, a small motorcycle produced in Yugoslavia and the Netherlands, has for decades been a common sight on European roads and provided the first taste of transport independence for countless youngsters. Unfortunately the company went bankrupt a few years ago, but there are still plenty of them about, and it’s one of

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How to fix corrupted DaVinci Resolve projects

Most video creators are familiar with the dreaded “Media Offline” warning and the panic it triggers. For users of DaVinci Resolve, the fix usually takes just a few clicks, but sometimes relinking clips seems impossible, and a project appears to be gone forever. When an entire project goes offline, panic can set in. It’s not

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The desktop Mac is dead

Macworld With the release of the M3 MacBook Air about a month ago, Apple’s laptop lineup became up-to-date, with each MacBook sporting some version of the M3 chip, the latest in Apple silicon. So, now it’s time for the other shoe to drop: the updates to the desktop Mac lineup. But of the four models

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