Month: March 2023
Quick fix: get rid of Android’s Discover page
Google’s Discover page, which is the left-most page on many Android phones, can be a useful source of news, or it can be an irritating list of clickbait headlines and repetitive articles. And because it is an intrinsic part of the OS on many phones, unless you actually installed it…
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Great, tweets are showing another metric now
Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by. There’s now a counter for how many bookmarks a tweet has gotten that lives beside the retweet, quote retweet, and like numbers. The counter is currently only showing up for iOS users who visit the tweet details page, but…
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Intel’s record-winning 56-core rig sucks as much power as a tumble dryer
Details have emerged about the recent world record achieved by Elmor, a professional overclocker, using Intel’s fastest single-socket processor, the Xeon W9-3495X, running on Maxon’s popular 3D renderer, Cinebench R23, a staple across many workstation PCs. It was cooled down to -92.8 degrees Celsius (-135 degrees Fahrenheit) and boosted to…
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California’s drought has eased, but the state isn’t out of the woods yet
An extremely wet winter has lifted much of California out of drought, and more rain is on the way. The deluge of rain and snowfall this season has “wiped out exceptional and extreme drought in California” for the first time since 2020, according to a spring outlook published today by…
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Clip Studio Paint 2.0 update improves color blending and 3D toolkit
Celsys has released Clip Studio Paint 2.0, the first major update for its popular digital illustration app that introduces new 3D referencing tools, brush effects, and additional language support. Some of the most notable additions for the update build on the app’s existing support for 3D models, which can be…
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Google Glass Enterprise has finally bitten the dust
Google is pulling the plug on Glass Enterprise, the smart glasses product it was working on for the last ten years. In a short announcement posted on the company website, Google said the hardware can no longer be purchased, while the software will reach end-of-life in roughly six months’ time.…
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