Month: July 2024
ICYMI: the week’s 8 biggest tech news stories, from the Galaxy Z Fold 6 to OpenAI SearchGPT
Every week in tech is a busy week, so there’s no real surprise that the last seven days have been packed with news and leaks: we’ve seen major stories around ChatGPT, Spotify, Apple, Google, and more besides. Here at TechRadar, we’ve also found time to publish two major reviews: for…
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Intel and AMD won’t like that: Detailed benchmarking of Amazon Graviton4 shows fantastic performance/price — this is the biggest server CPU threat yet to x86 duopoly and it won’t go away
The fourth-generation AWS Graviton4 processor, now generally available, is a high-performance CPU based on Arm Neoverse-V2 cores, boasting significant improvements over its predecessor. It features 96 cores, providing on average 30% higher compute performance and 40% faster performance for databases and Java software. If you’re wondering how it compares with…
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Your old Android phone just got a video boost thanks to a new Blackmagic Camera update
Last month, digital photography brand Blackmagic Design launched its Blackmagic Camera app on Android, but it was limited to a handful of Galaxy and Pixel phones. On those phones, it gave users access to pro-level film tools, and now the company revealed it’s expanding the availability of its software to older devices. The announcement almost…
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X is now using your posts (and more) to train its Grok AI, but there’s something you can do about it
X (formerly Twitter) thinks it’s circumvented some of the issues other social media companies such as Meta have bumped up against in regard to training its AI, Grok, on user data and information – but there’s something you can do about it. X quietly added a setting that allows your…
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Google’s Nest Cameras will now alert you if you left the garage door open
Google is updating its smart home Nest platform, introducing a new feature and making a long-overdue change. First, garage door detection is leaving the Public Preview program and coming to “all compatible Nest Cam users” via the Google Home app. Moving forward, Nest cameras will notify you if you leave the garage…
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Here’s your first look at Amazon’s Like a Dragon: Yakuza
Amazon says that the show “showcases modern Japan and the dramatic stories of these intense characters, such as the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, that games in the past have not been able to explore.” Kiryu will be played by Ryoma Takeuchi, while Kento Kaku also starts as Akira Nishikiyama. The series…
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