Month: October 2023
I’m Charging My Toothbrush With Wireless Power Over Distance—and It’s a Trip
Nikola Tesla once dreamed of transferring electrical energy through the air. Now, a company called Wi-Charge is beta-testing a prototype technology, and I’m testing it in my bathroom. Source
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Now might be the time for that RAM upgrade – to beat rumored price hikes
DDR4 (and DDR5) RAM for your PC could soon be getting pricier, according to a new forecast, and somewhat sooner than was anticipated. If you’ve been following RAM pricing – and we’ll excuse you, if you haven’t (just this once) – then you’ll have seen that throughout the course of…
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To beat Nvidia, AMD bets on open source acquisition and a strategy reminiscent of Linux vs Microsoft era
AMD is tapping into the power of open source with its acquisition of Nod.ai, which has developed a portfolio of tools and systems to boost the deployment of AI applications on the company’s hardware. Nvidia’s compute unified device architecture (CUDA) software has become the industry standard for GPU workloads –…
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Microsoft suddenly wants to tell you how to install Linux – but why?
Microsoft has released its own instructions on how to install Linux on your PC, detailing in a step-by-step guide how you should go about choosing a Linux distro and then installing it. In the help article, Redmond suggests four methods of getting Linux to run on your machine: Windows Subsystem…
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Is your X ad revenue sharing payment smaller than you expected?
Now that X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has managed to repeatedly send out its ad revenue sharing payments on time without any last-minute delays, engineer Eric Farraro is answering questions from users who still aren’t getting the payments they expect. Reasons include: 1) X users only earn ad…
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Apple’s new video reactions are making therapy incredibly awkward
SimplePractice, a company that offers a telehealth platform, is warning patients about Apple’s new video reactions feature that might let people unintentionally add heart emoji or virtual fireworks during a telehealth video call. Awkward. As shown in a Mastodon post by Matt Haughey — who says he had a friend…
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