Month: August 2021
Twitter experiencing widespread outages
Twitter users in Canada and parts of the U.S. appear to be having trouble accessing the social media platform on Friday morning. Reports from third-party web monitoring service Downdetector indicate the issue is impacting users across Canada and mainly the eastern parts of the U.S. near the Canadian border, though…
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Keychron’s Q1 keyboard is its most customizable yet
The humble computer keyboard might feel utilitarian, but given it’s the part of your setup you interact with the most, it’s kinda wild that we don't often give it thought. Fortunately, there’s a vibrant scene of small (and not so small) companies that understand everyone’s needs are different and that…
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Six things we learned about Elden Ring
Elden Ring is a collaboration between two masters of fantasy: Game of Thrones author George R.R Martin and Dark Souls studio FromSoftware, led by visionary director Hidetaka Miyazaki. With big names like those come equally big expectations, and the game has been hotly anticipated, even as players have seen little…
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Western Digital admits it crippled write speeds with flash memory change User expressing frustration at a slow PC
Western Digital has admitted that it swapped the NAND flash memory inside one of its most popular solid-state drives (SSDs), which reportedly penalized performance by up to 50%. The WD Blue SN550 is one of Western Digital’s best selling M.2 NVMe SSD models, but Tom’s Hardware confirmed reports of an…
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How small developers compete with the defaults on your phone
James Thomson started developing PCalc in 1992 as a way to learn to program for the Mac. Since then, he’s rewritten the calculator app multiple times to feature new UI changes, ported it to the iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, and maintained it for the Mac over the decades.…
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Can the Metaverse Thrive if It’s Fully Owned by Facebook?
This week, we step into the social network’s vision of the metaverse, where reality and the simulated world become one. Kinda. Source
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