Month: March 2023

Apple’s business-oriented ‘Mac notebook upgrade program’ has been discontinued

Apple partnered with a bank in 2021 to let small businesses lease new M1 Macs for as low as $30 per month, with easy options to upgrade if and when more powerful devices are released. Now that’s no longer being offered, and businesses that had signed up will now have…

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Brave Summarizer takes on Bing and ChatGPT at the AI search results game

Audio player loading… Hopping on the AI train, Brave is incorporating its own AI-powered search function to its web browser called Summarizer – similar to what Microsoft recently did to Bing. The new feature “provides concise and to-the-point answers at the top of Brave Search results”. For example, if you…

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Sony’s new 3.1-channel Dolby Atmos soundbar is like a Sonos Beam but with DTS:X

Audio player loading… Sony has announced its latest soundbar, the HT-S2000. A slim and compact (31.5  x 2.5 x 5 inches, W x H X D) model with a basic black look, the soundbar is the company’s first to work with Home Entertainment Connect, a new app that guides users…

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Microsoft Edge will start letting you upscale crappy low-res videos online

Audio player loading… Some Microsoft Edge Canary users will finally have access to a feature announced back in January during CES 2023. According to Neowin, that feature is called Video Super Resolution (VSR) and it’s an upscaler that uses AI tech from Microsoft Research to enhance video quality within the…

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Hatch Bank says 140,000 customers had data stolen after breach

Audio player loading… Hatch Bank has become the second company to suffer the consequences of the data breach that happened at GoAnywhere MFT, once again demonstrating just how dangerous supply chain attacks can be. The financial technology firm has filed a report with the Attorney General’s office in which it…

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Akamai beefs up cloud storage offering with acquisition

Audio player loading… CDN specialist Akamai has acquired cloud storage technology provider Ondat in a surprising move that will beef up its own Connected Cloud offering, launched only a few days ago.  Details of the acquisition of the London-based company have not been disclosed and the acquisition is expected to…

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