Month: March 2024

The perfect music streaming app does not exist

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 29, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I promise I don’t always complain about music streaming, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)  I also have for you…

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Millie Bobby Brown’s new Netflix movie Damsel is a dud – watch these 3 great fantasy movies instead

Millie Bobby Brown’s latest Netflix venture Damsel, in which the Stranger Things’ actor faces a fiery showdown with a dragon, is proving to be truly in distress after early reviews call it a flop. The new fantasy, adventure film currently has 48 reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, totaling a…

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Firm headed by legendary chip architect behind AMD Zen finally releases first hardware — days after being selected to build the future of AI in Japan, Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs

Tenstorrent, the firm led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller, the mastermind behind AMD‘s Zen architecture and Tesla’s original self-driving chip, has launched its first hardware. Grayskull is a RISC-V alternative to GPUs that is designed to be easier to program and scale, and reportedly excels at handling run-time sparsity and…

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Obscure Chinese brand launches laptop that may have a better battery life than the MacBook Pro — Core Ultra 7 totting Megabook T16 Pro has record-breaking 99.9WHr battery, up to 22 hours on a single charge

Tecno Mobile, while not widely known outside of China, does have a reputation for making high-quality devices at competitive prices. The company’s new 16 inch Megabook T16 Pro 2024 Ultra laptop, which was first revealed at this year’s MWC 2024, comes with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor (a fresh…

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You can grab a PS5 with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for $399.99 right now

Happy Saturday, dear readers! Just over a week ago, we saw a bundle containing the disc-based PlayStation 5 “slim” and a digital copy of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 drop to $449 ($50 off) — a deal that’s still readily available at Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop. What’s changed over the past…

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A Roku Terms of Service Update Locks Up Your TV Until You Agree

If you want to opt out of the new “Dispute Resolution Terms,” you have to write a letter. Source

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