Month: November 2023

Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech

“History isn’t history anymore. Truth is not truth. Even facts are being replaced by alternative facts and driven by conspiracy theories and ugliness. In Florida, young students are taught that slaves developed skills which can be applied for their personal benefit.  The entertainment industry isn’t immune to this festering disease.…

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Google Drive is getting some big changes – with a bonus for iPhone users

Google has announced that big changes are coming to Google Drive, its cloud-based file storage platform. This latest series of tweaks to the popular cloud storage service come mainly in the form of a shiny new landing page, but there’s an extra treat in sort for iOS users. The new…

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Embracer Group restructuring continues as Fishlabs studio is expected to cut around 50 jobs

Around 50 job cuts are expected to be made at German studio Fishlabs, as Embracer Group’s restructuring program continues.  Fishlabs – which is owned by Deep Silver, a division of Embracer-owned company Plaion – is arguably best known for its work on the Galaxy on Fire series, but it also…

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Google beefs up Drive’s document scanning feature and brings it to iPhone

iPhone users in the US will also benefit from a new title suggestion feature that attempts to auto-generate a document title based on text it recognizes in the scan. The feature previously came to the Android version of Drive earlier this year. Google also says it’s improving document scanning on…

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AMD’s 96-core behemoth just sent Intel’s best processor into oblivion to claim 19 world speed records — and it’s only just getting started

AMD‘s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX is demonstrating exactly why it’s been so highly anticipated by claiming a swathe of new records in various benchmarking categories.  The EPYC processor currently holds the record for tests in various categories including Cinebench R23 multi-core, Geekbench 3 multi-core, and HWBOT x265 Benchmark – 4k,…

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Amazon wants you to ditch keycards, and scan your palm instead to get into the office

Getting into the office could soon be as easy as scanning your palm, thanks to a new release from Amazon Web Services (AWS). At its AWS re:Invent 2023 event, the cloud computing giant unveiled a business-focused version of its Amazon One palm-scanning biometric authentication tool that it says gives businesses…

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