Month: September 2023
Here’s Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s public memo on Google at 25
To everyone around the world who uses our products, our employees, and our partners: This month, Google will celebrate our 25th birthday. It’s a huge privilege to reach this milestone, made possible by the people who use our products and challenge us to keep innovating, the hundreds of thousands of…
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Zoom is even less happy about Microsoft Teams than you are
He’s got a point about bundling! Vox Media uses Google Meet now because it’s part of our Google Workspace account, though we used to use Zoom. As for Teams, I’ve never used it, but there’s still a little Teams icon in my PC’s system tray because Microsoft jammed it in…
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All 50 states call on Congress to address AI-generated CSAM
The attorneys general from all 50 US states want lawmakers to establish a commission dedicated to investigating the impact of AI on child exploitation, as reported earlier by The Associated Press. In a letter to Congress, the attorneys general say that the proposed commission should come up with solutions to…
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No, this ain’t a GPU card: Unique SSD storage device crams 8 drives to reach up to 55GB/s
HighPoint’s first dual-slot NVMe RAID add-in card (AIC) can fit up to eight SSDs into a single unit to reach maximum speeds of 55GB/s – making it arguably the world’s fastest storage device to date. The company – a specialist in making PCIe cards – has built the SSD7749E for…
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Elon Musk paid for our attention, but the price to keep it is getting higher
I see Elon Musk has pivoted from pretending he’s going to physically fight Mark Zuckerberg to pretending he is going to sue the Anti-Defamation League. Okay. There are people who still take Musk seriously, and I wish them well on their journey. This blog is for the rest of us.…
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These Steam Deck custom resin buttons look phenomenal — and they’re for sale
Would you spend $40–$60 on artisan buttons for your Steam Deck? What if they were cast by hand from custom resin molds, made by just one guy in the USA? I imagine it would depend on how they look — but thankfully, they look amazing. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13…
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