Month: April 2024
Earbuds and AirPods are a sustainability nightmare, but Fairphone’s Fairbuds could change that
Fairphone, maker of repairable and therefore potentially longer-lasting and more sustainable phones and headphones, has revealed its first wireless earbuds, called Fairbuds. They cost £129 (about $165 / AU$245), and are available to order in Europe now from Fairphone’s website. The unique thing about Fairbuds compared to all the rest…
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The 12 Best Turntables for Your Vinyl Collection (2024)
Streaming music giving you the blues? These entry-level turntables will help you rock on to analog audio at home. Source
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Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro can now hear
Google’s update to Gemini 1.5 Pro gives the model ears. The model can now listen to uploaded audio files and churn out information from things like earnings calls or audio from videos without the need to refer to a written transcript. During its Google Next event, Google also announced it’ll…
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Alibaba Cloud slashes prices as it looks to boost non-Chinese market
Alibaba Cloud has announced significant price cuts for its compute, storage, and database services, with a clear focus of slashing costs for its international customers. The unexpected move follows similar offers for Chinese customers revealed in January, which saw price drops for users committing to long-term deals. The Hangzhou, China-based…
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The Morning After: Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal Model X crash
Back in 2019, the family of Apple engineer Wei Lun Huang (aka Walter Huang) sued Tesla a year after he was killed when his Model X crashed while Autopilot was engaged. The automaker has settled the lawsuit — on the very day jury selection was supposed to take place. Tesla’s…
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Is your Intel Core i9 CPU crashing when playing games? You’re not alone – and Intel’s investigating worrying reports of instability
Intel is now investigating reports into its high-end 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors experiencing problems in terms of crashing when gaming, according to a new report. This comes from Wccftech, with the article writer noting that they have run into stability issues with a Core i9-13900K CPU in a new gaming…
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