Month: April 2024

11 Best Smart Notebooks and Smart Pens (2024): Tablets, Digital Pens, and Reusable Books

These nifty tools combine the ease of jotting notes by hand with the power of saving them digitally. Source

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Battle of the best robovacs (that iRobot doesn’t make)

There are an absurd number of robot vacuums available today, but based on my testing of dozens of bots, just a handful of manufacturers are leading the pack when it comes to innovation, choice, and really good cleaning machines. These include Roborock, iRobot, and Dreame. Each has recently released new…

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No ‘independent chip makers and system makers and storage makers’: Industry expert paints bleakest picture of future of IT — insatiable tech appetite of Google, Microsoft and other hyperscalers could kill off competition forever

In IDC’s own words, its Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment is “designed to provide clients with a better understanding of how enterprise infrastructure technologies (server, external enterprise storage systems, purpose-built appliances: HCI and PBBA) are being deployed in cloud environments and what type of buyers are…

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The space-age Typhur Dome might have solved the big problem with air fryers

Air fryers can be great for saving time and energy, but on a practical level there does appear to be a flaw with the design. Most of today’s best air fryers are tall rather than wide, so while the internal volume is generous, the usable space can be rather limited.…

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I switched through all the best music streamers for a month to compare them – here are the 7 biggest things I learned

Spotify has long been considered the best music streaming service thanks to its extensive music library, user-friendly interface, smart recommendations and sleek design. However, the music streaming space has changed since Spotify launched in 2008. Since then, rivals have upped their game and launched new products catering to different listeners.…

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So what if OpenAI Sora didn’t create the mind-blowing Balloon Head video without assistance – I still think it’s incredible

Sora fans just learned a hard lesson: filmmakers will be filmmakers and will do what’s necessary to make their creations as convincing and eye-popping as possible. But if this made them think less of OpenAI‘s generative AI video platform, they’re wrong. When OpenAI handed an early version of the generative…

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