Month: July 2024
President Biden drops his re-election bid
My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation. Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. We’ve made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to…
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Exclusive: Sony confirms it is killing its formidable 5.5TB cartridge storage solution — clearing the way for emerging ceramic, silica and DNA storage rivals to take its place
Sony has long been a key player in digital storage technologies. The company introduced the CD in 1982, which it developed in collaboration with Philips, revolutionizing how data and music were stored and accessed. In 1995, Sony launched the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), a joint effort with Philips, Toshiba, and…
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Google may be planning a Gemini-powered rival to the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
In our Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review, we described the gadget as the best AI wearable on the market at the moment – and it seems Google is ready to get back into the smart specs market with its own pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses. According to The Financial…
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CrowdStrike outage: Photos, videos, and tales of IT workers fixing BSODs
The CrowdStrike outage that hit millions of Windows machines on Friday has left IT workers scrambling to get their organizations’ computer infrastructure back up and running. Images and stories shared online are illustrating just how tedious and overwhelming this task is. And these things must be done for every individual…
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The all-seeing AI webcam
On the infinite list of possible uses for AI, “getting selfie advice from a Kylie Jenner voice clone” seems both completely off-the-wall and also pretty inevitable. So of course it does exist. It’s not a widely-available app, at least not yet; it’s an experiment from artist and programmer Dries Depoorter.…
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CrowdStrike has a new guidance hub for dealing with the Windows outage
The page includes technical information on what caused the outage, what systems are affected, and CEO George Kurtz’s statement. It contains links to Bitlocker key recovery processes and to various third-party vendor pages about dealing with the outage, as well. The page points to a knowledge base article (which only…
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