Month: April 2024

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, April 22 (game #50)

It’s time for your Monday instalment of NYT Strands, the word game that challenges you to solve a kind of leveled-up wordsearch. Today’s puzzle is not too bad, in my experience, but if you need hints to help you then scroll down and you’ll find a selection. SPOILER WARNING: Information…

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Why is Windows 11 so got dang annoying?

A couple of weeks ago, I ran out of screen on the one external monitor my work-issued MacBook Air can run. So I switched to my five-year-old Windows desktop and plugged in another monitor. Love it. Productivity through the roof. But it means that I’m finally spending significant time in…

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AMD teams up with Arm to unveil AI chip family that does preprocessing, inference and postprocessing on one silicon — but you will have to wait more than 12 months to get actual products

AMD is introducing two new adaptive SoCs – Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 for AI-driven embedded systems, and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 for classic embedded systems. Multi-chip solutions typically come with significant overheads but single hardware architecture isn’t fully optimized for all three AI phases – preprocessing, AI…

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The US takes another big step towards banning TikTok – here’s what you need to know

A TikTok ban in the United States is closer than it’s ever been, with the US House of Representatives voting through the relevant legislation on Saturday – meaning it could become law in just a few days. As reported by Android Authority and others, the short-form video and social media…

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Olive Union Olive Max Hearing Aids: For Mild Hearing Loss

They look like a pair of Bluetooth earpieces from the early 2000s, but Olive Union’s over-the-counter hearing aids are a decent option for anyone with mild hearing loss. Source

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What Is 5G Home Internet? Here’s Everything You Need to Know (2024)

Carriers are starting to offer home internet packages that rely on 5G cellular data service. We’ll help you decide if it’s right for you. Source

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