Month: July 2023
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate $1/£1 introductory offer is back
Have you been interested in trying out Xbox Game Pass Ultimate but are a little unsure about what you get for your money? Here’s some welcome news: just days after Microsoft hiked the price of its subscription service, the company has reintroduced its $1/£1 month-long trial. The $1/£1 trial…
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Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement.
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement. The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing…
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Hitting the Books: Amazon’s unique ‘threat’ to digital commerce
When it comes to online merchandizing, nobody is bigger than Amazon. The same can be said for Walmart’s utter domination of physical retail. But for a brief time in 2016, the two behemoths sought to get all up in each other’s lanes. The resulting multi-year fracas would shake the world…
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12 Best Laptops (2023): MacBooks, Windows, Chromebooks
These are our favorite Windows notebooks, MacBooks, and Chromebooks. Source
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My kids love Furby — send help
I thought I was off the hook. When I told my kids the new Furby was done staying at our house, they seemed to understand. “We’ll miss you a lot, Furby!!” my six-year-old exclaimed — but there were no cries, no tantrums. They asked if Furby could play one more…
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Apple may be ‘experimenting’ with a 32-inch iMac, but don’t expect one soon
Apple is experimenting with larger iMacs, including a 32-inch version, for the future of its famous desktop line, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who wrote in the subscriber-only version of his Power On newsletter today that development is still early, so much could change. He doesn’t believe we’ll see one…
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