Month: December 2023
I’ve reviewed OLED TVs for a decade, and these are the holiday deals worth buying
It seems hard to believe, but OLED TV technology has already been with us for a decade. The first OLED TV that I reviewed was a 55-inch Samsung with a curved screen that could display 3D movies and cost $9,000 – ouch! Like today’s OLED models, it had incredible contrast…
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Over $300 off one of the best battery life iPhones makes this a holiday season steal
Although the iPhone 14 Plus may have been the most awkward and unloved member of 2022’s iPhone family, there’s no getting around the fact that it’s a battery behemoth; serving up astounding longevity and now, for a lower price than ever, just in time for the holiday season. In truth,…
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Instagram and Facebook users will soon no longer be able to chat in new update
Three years after it first launched, Meta has decided to disable Facebook’s and Instagram’s cross-messaging feature. The company introduced cross-app chats back in 2020, letting users from the two platforms talk to each other with ease. There were even plans to extend the interoperability with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying at…
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Bing tests AI Deep Search that turns your simple question into a detailed prompt
Provide an explanation of how various loyalty card programs work in Japan, including the benefits, requirements, and limitations of each. Include examples of popular loyalty cards from different categories, such as convenience stores, supermarkets, and restaurants. Show a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of using loyalty cards versus other…
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The fastest ‘storage device’ you can buy — enthusiast uses AMD Ryzen’s 3D V-Cache to produce tiny, uber-fast pseudo SSD that could pave way to exciting prospects
Somebody has managed to turn AMD‘s Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor into a storage device with read-write speeds that can rival some of the best SSDs out there. By running a RAM disk on the 3D V-Cache processor, our sister site Tom’s Hardware spotted the test results of roughly 178GB/s for reads…
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PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
In less than a week, Sony has given us two timely reminders of the tenuousness of digital “ownership” — and both reminders involve things on PlayStation. Last week, Sony said that, because of content licensing “arrangements,” users wouldn’t be able to watch Discovery content they’ve purchased and that the content…
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