Month: March 2024
Crash Team Rumble ends ongoing support with a massive battle pass featuring all previous seasons’ content
Online multiplayer team game Crash Team Rumble is having its official support come to an end, less than nine months after its June 2023 launch. Spotted by VGC, Crash Team Rumble players will see a message from developer Toys for Bob upon reaching the game’s main menu. It confirms that…
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Windows 11 is becoming a much more ‘accessible and productive experience’
Microsoft has announced a raft of enhancements to its native ‘Voice Access’ voice recognition and Narrator screen reader features as part of the next preview release of Windows 11, versions 23H2 and 22H2. Revealed in a new company blog post, the ‘Voice Access’ feature, invaluable for those with disabilities, now…
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Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the greatest of them all – Python or Java?
The technology industry has always been prone to hype. Today, the obsession with artificial intelligence (AI) is almost overwhelming and as someone who has worked with Java for over 25 years I have to admit to a certain degree of envy. It is no surprise that as AI and machine…
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This tiny component could help Google and others save tens of millions of dollars — new modules help improve power efficiency in AI-driven data centers
The energy consumption needs of data centres is growing exponentially, due in no small part to the increased demands of AI – around 2% of all global electricity usage is believed to be by data centers, and tech giants like Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon are under increasing pressure to implement…
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Samsung’s speedy new microSD cards are built for on-device AI and toughness
Samsung just revealed a new generation of microSD cards that support the SD Express standard enabling lightning-fast performance. In the official announcement post, the company states it has begun sampling tests for the 256GB model which they claim will have a maximum read speed of 800MB per second. To put…
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Facebook will remove its News tab, and stop paying publishers for news
Facebook’s News tab launched in 2019 with millions of dollars in content deals for publishers (a reported $10 million for the Wall Street Journal, $20 million for the New York Times, and $3 million for CNN), but in April it’s going away for good. Meta says it will “deprecate” Facebook…
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