Month: February 2024
This Japanese-style wooden gaming PC is both beautiful and practical
I’ve ranted in the past about the “gamer aesthetic” and how detrimental it is to genuinely unique designs, whether it be for accessories or the best gaming PCs themselves. However, I recently came across a unique PC that shows you can marry a gorgeous design with powerful performance. PC builder…
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Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training
Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. 404 Media reports that the platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models. It isn’t clear which data…
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Facebook users are being suspended by hackers with fake Oculus accounts — it sounds crazy, but it’s true
Thousands of Facebook users are being wrongfully suspended after their accounts are compromised by hackers using a sneaky Oculus backdoor. The hackers have been creating Meta accounts linked to the Oculus platform and then linking them to their victims accounts, bypassing two-factor authentication, and giving the hackers full access. The…
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Apple is done with building an Apple car according to a report – and everything I’ve been telling you for the last nine years
“Apple is not building a car. Not today, not tomorrow, not this year. Not ever. It’s not building a gas one or a diesel one. It’s not building an electric one or nuclear-powered one. It’s not.” I wrote this in 2015 and it’s just as true today as it was…
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You can save $20 on several Nintendo Switch games for Pokémon Day
Oh, would you look at that. It’s Pokémon Day, an annual celebration commemorating the game’s launch on this very day in 1996. Fun fact: Pokémon was first a video game, but it was quickly adapted as a trading card game and anime, both of which are arguably equally as responsible…
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Meta might demo a pair of ‘true’ AR smart glasses later in 2024
It’s been long rumored that Meta is working on a pair of augmented reality smart glasses — and it’s possible we could finally get a glimpse of them later this year. Citing unnamed Meta sources, a Business Insider report claims that the company plans to demo a pair of true…
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