Month: February 2024
12 Best USB Flash Drives (2024): Pen Drives, Thumb Drives, Memory Sticks
These WIRED-tested memory sticks are a virtual filing cabinet in your pocket. Source
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How we all get news now
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 24, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading Kyle Chayka’s great book…
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The Apple Vision Pro’s Killer App Is … Kitchen Timers
It’s meant to be the best mixed reality gear yet, so why are we again grading it on how well it helps us cook pasta? Source
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Arm’s former unofficial tech futurologist joins obscure startup that wants to solve AI’s sustainability problem — by developing computers that consume almost no power
Artificial Intelligence systems, particularly those involving machine learning and deep learning, require a huge amount of energy, due to the computational intensity of the tasks they perform. These processes require powerful hardware, which in turn consume a lot of electricity. Microsoft is even considering powering its data centers with nuclear…
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Google Bard could soon become Gemini, and appear inside more apps
The AI chatbot Google Bard is one of the fastest evolving apps in the Google collection at the moment – and it looks as though its branding is about to evolve too, with Google set to rename it as Gemini. This comes from developer Dylan Roussel (via Engadget), who has…
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Samsung and Cisco partner to deliver a 5K teleconferencing monster display — 105-inch QPD-5K has a 21:9 aspect ratio but won’t come cheap
Samsung has taken to the stage at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2024 event in Barcelona to showcase how its SmartThings platform will bolster its business-focused displays and deliver “the future of business connectivity”. This includes an expansion of the South Korean giant’s partnership with Cisco, unveiling a new 105-inch,…
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