Month: May 2024
Matter 1.3 pushes the standard into your kitchen, laundry room, and garage
The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) has rolled out Matter version 1.3 giving smart home brands another avenue to expand their tech into the kitchen and other areas of the house. One of the cornerstones in the update is the ability to control important, or more essential, household appliances. This includes…
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks…
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Intel and motherboard makers disagree on how to stabilize your crashing i9 CPU
Several motherboard manufacturers have released BIOS profiles labeled ‘Intel Baseline Profile’. However, these BIOS profiles are not the same as the ‘Intel Default Settings’ recommendations that Intel has recently shared with its partners regarding the instability issues reported on 13th and 14th gen K SKU processors. These ‘Intel Baseline Profile’ BIOS…
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Microsoft’s ‘air gapped’ AI is a bot set up to process top-secret info
Microsoft Strategic Missions and Technology CTO William Chappell announced that it’s deployed a GPT-4 large language model in an isolated, air-gapped environment on a government-only network. Bloomberg first reported the setup, citing an unnamed executive who claimed that the Azure Government Top Secret cloud-hosted model represents the first time a “major”…
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Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, May 9 (game #836)
This is potentially a difficult Quordle, with a couple of complications that may require you to play with some caution. To help you out, I’ve come up with a couple of hints – they’re yours to use if you need them. SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so…
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NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, May 9 (game #67)
Welcome to today’s edition of the NYT’s Strands game, in which your task is to uncover words hidden within a grid of letter. The twist is that they all follow a theme, and one – called the ‘spangram’ – describes that theme. It can be pretty tricky, but I’ve included…
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