From PC World: In summer of last year, we saw several laptops with new Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite processors from Qualcomm released.
Many users were impressed by them, as Snapdragon laptops aren’t just fast but also power-efficient, offering much longer battery life and requiring virtually no fan...
From PC Mag: In theory, TikTok owner ByteDance has until mid-September to finalize a deal to sell the app's US operation, or it will face a ban in the country. President Trump claims he has a buyer for the app, but says we won't find out who it is for another two weeks.
During an appearance on Fox...
At some point during the past few years, I decided I was going to throw away my engineering degree to pursue a career in education instead. I knew one of my biggest weaknesses was going to be classroom management, since I never liked being the person who yells at a group to tell them to be quiet! I had a few chances to work with an after-school program recently, and that weakness of mine became very obvious. If the students were well-behaved, I...
One thing I have always enjoyed doing is browsing Calgary inner city house listings. For what appears to be an old 1960s bungalow on the outside, many of them have nothing about it on the inside that is still mid-century. From the kitchen to the washrooms to the bedrooms, the house would have been completely stripped down to the studs and renovated from there. Now, why are there so many of these houses? Inner city neighborhoods are desirable...
From The Verge: Threads has taken another step towards decoupling from Instagram by introducing its own word blocking filters. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the Hidden Words setting on Threads includes “newly added custom filters to block words, phrases, and emojis in...
From PC World: Google Photos had been experimenting with AI searches for the best part of a year before the AI-powered beta was rolled back earlier this month. Now, Google is ready for more people to get access.
The feature is called Ask Photos, originally revealed at Google I/O 2024, and it allows...
From CNET: Another 1980s icon is gone, like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" will be going away. But not to worry -- a black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit...
From PC World: US officials appear to have caught a hacker named "IntelBroker," who tried to extort numerous companies, including AMD, Home Depot, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
The Justice Department on Wednesday charged 25-year-old British national Kai West for operating as IntelBroker and...
From PC World: Vintage-style LED smart bulbs have been a thing for a while, but I haven’t seen one quite like this new one from Savant’s GE Lighting division.
The all-new Cync Clear Full Color Direct Connect A19 Smart Bulb—now there’s a mouthful—features a spiral LED filament in a clear glass globe...
From The Verge: Intel is shutting down its business dedicated to making processors for cars. In a memo seen by The Oregonian, Intel tells workers that it plans to lay off “most” employees in the division, citing plans to shift focus to its “core client and data center portfolio.”
“As part of this...
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