Month: December 2023
Google is shutting down Play Movies & TV, but don’t worry, your purchases are safe
Google will be pulling the plug on the last vestiges of Play Movies & TV, and to help with the transition, it’ll be moving users’ purchased content to other services. The tech giant has been slowly shutting down the platform for the past two years beginning with its removal from…
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Netflix reveals how many hours we spent watching The Night Agent and Queen Charlotte
Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform. The first report, released today, details the most-watched content from January to June 2023, and it’s perhaps the best look yet at how much people are actually…
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Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration
The RISC-V movement has been given a massive boost after Meta revealed it is primed to begin mass development of hardware and products with the technology at its core. RISC, an alternative Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) to the x86 architecture used by the likes of Intel and AMD in their…
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WhatsApp’s new pinned messages make it easy to keep group chats on task
WhatsApp is adding the ability to pin a message to the top of your chats for up to 30 days. Meta says that the feature, which its mobile Facebook Messenger app already has, is rolling out to users now, so not everyone will see it right away. Meta says to…
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Last-minute Christmas gifts at Walmart: shop today’s 19 best deals
December 25 is drawing near, and if you’re looking to shop for last-minute Christmas gifts, Walmart is here to help. The retailer is having a massive sale on best-selling gift ideas, all of which ship in time for the big day. I’ve take a good look at what’s in the…
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Researchers fuse lab-grown human brain tissue with electronics
In a story ripped from the opening scenes of a sci-fi horror movie, scientists have bridged a critical gap between the biological and electronic. The study, published in Nature Electronics (summarized in Nature), details a “hybrid biocomputer” combining lab-grown human brain tissue with conventional circuits and AI. Dubbed Brainoware, the…
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