Month: April 2024
After a new Intel CPU for less? Try your luck with a Japanese Gachapon
A Gatchapon in Japan has been discovered which dispenses Intel CPUs with an asking price of as little as 500 Yen ($3) with mixed results. The video showcases one curious user on a visit to PC Ones, a computing store located in Osaka, Japan. For just 500 Yen, you’re able…
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Many people say their Apple IDs were inexplicably reset last night
Overnight, many people reported on social media that they were inexplicably logged out of their Apple IDs and then required to reset their passwords when they tried to sign in again, and nobody seems to know why. Some reported needing to enter their iPhone passcode to connect to iCloud again,…
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Windows 11 laptops could finally take on M3 MacBooks thanks to Qualcomm – but Microsoft needs to do its part too
Of all the biggest missed opportunities in Microsoft’s rather long history of squandered chances, Windows on Arm is the one I’m saddest about – but that could soon change. When Windows 10 on Arm was first being touted (the less said about the earlier Windows RT the better), the promise…
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The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
I was sitting in a suburban Cincinnati Starbucks when I realized everything was going to change. It was early 2008, and a friend was showing me his new phone. He loaded a website and passed his iPhone across the table, and I scrolled down the page. It was slow and…
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Fed up with Windows 10 search being slow, wonky, or crashing? Microsoft’s fixed search with its latest update
Windows 10 has received a new optional update and it comes with some much-needed fixing to cure problems some users have been experiencing with the search function in the OS. Windows Latest noticed that in the latest preview update just released for Windows 10 (KB5036979), there’s been some work to…
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They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit
Ecologist Daniel Janzen wades into the field, clutching a walking stick in one hand and a fist full of towering green blades of grass in the other to steady himself. Winnie Hallwachs, also an ecologist and Janzen’s wife, watches him closely, carrying a hat that she hands to him once…
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