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Friday August 23, 2024. 12:22 PM
From tower and pedestal styles to utilitarian box fans, we’ve been testing fans all summer, and these are our favorites.
We’ve all been there. You’re working on a document or a spreadsheet, or using email, and BAM! One of your Microsoft Office applications starts acting weird or stops responding. Please relax, and don’t give in to panic or upset. This sort of thing does occur from time...
Uber and General Motors' Cruise have partnered to offer driverless rides to Uber users as early as soon as next year. CNBC reports: Both Cruise CEO Marc Whitten and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi hailed the partnership in a press release, stressing that the companies believe...
I wish generative AI (genAI) tools were truly useful. They’re not. I keep tinkering with the programs — ChatGPT, Meta AI, Gemini, etc., etc. Mind you, they look useful if you don’t know any better. Their answers sound plausible. But if you look closer, even if you...
As the EU does its deluded best to turn iOS into Android, the Apple ecosystem is focused on what really matters to business users: security, privacy, and platform integrity. That’s why enterprise tech leaders need to know that Apple MDM and security vendor Jamf has got...
Ah, the ever-present annual conundrum for any Pixel-appreciating Android aficionado: To upgrade or not to upgrade? Google’s latest Pixel 9 devices are here earlier than ever this year, and while they may not feel like night-and-day departures from the previous Pixel...
Over the past few years, technology teams have split into smaller work groups with more focused tasks. The rise of the cloud has created the need for DevOps teams, and the gap has grown wider between teams that build products and teams that manage products. At the same time, ...
The Telegram channel and website Deep State uses public data and insider intelligence to power its live tracker of Ukraine’s ever-shifting front line.
The cloud computing boom brought innovation and showed us the need for strategic planning to avoid costly mistakes such as “shadow IT” (IT activities or purchases made without the knowledge of the IT department), which led to unexpected expenses and security issues. With ...
With Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 due to arrive September 17, work already has begun on JDK 24, with the first feature, restricting the use of JNI (Java Native Interface), targeted for the release. A multitude of other features, including many already in preview in JDK 23,...
Mature, stable – and can rescue corrupt files The second LibreOffice release of 2024 is here, with additional spreadsheet functions, improved presentation layouts, better searching, and more.…
A tale of retro tech – have you heard of Trivector computers? – and a very troubled tech support journey On Call Every IT pro has a story filed away about the time they were asked to provide tech support under odd circumstances, which is why each Friday The Register...
The Wow! signal, detected on August 15, 1977, was an intense radio transmission that appeared artificial and raised the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. However, recent research suggests it may have been caused by a natural astrophysical event involving a magnetar...
As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma India's Department of Space has outlined plans to send its first astronaut to space next year, establish a space station by 2035, and land an Indian on the Moon by 2045.…
There's a lot of CO2 in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero The Open Compute Project, the org best known for offering designs for hyperscale hardware, has rounded up AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to help it test concrete.…
LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts LY Corp, a joint venture between Japan's SoftBank Group and South Korea's Naver Corporation known for its flagship messaging app LINE, has detailed how it uses an in-house ChatGPT implementation ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A U.S. government report expected to stir debate concluded that fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children. The report, based on an analysis of previously...
Microsoft plans to phase out Windows Control Panel, a feature dating back to the 1980s, in favor of the modern Settings app, according to a recent support page. The tech giant has been gradually shifting functions to Settings since 2015, aiming for a more streamlined user...
Also testing allowing women to chose female drivers Chinese ride-share provider DiDi Chuxing announced on Thursday that it has started testing a feature that would allow riders to name and shame operators of smelly cars – and even take them off the road.…
Neal Agarwal—the creative coding genius behind the delightful Neal.fun free browser games like Draw Logos From Memory, Space Elevator, Days Since Incident, and so many more—brings us Eyechat. It's like Chatroulette but for your eyes only. Turn on your Web camera and it...
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