Month: July 2024
CMF Phone 1 Review: A Phenomenal Budget Smartphone
I used this $199 smartphone to cover a launch event in Paris and it was nearly flawless. Source
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Two new must-have Android apps
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 46, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like silly gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about Apple betas and…
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AMD confirms Zen 6 and Zen 6c will arrive in 2025 — but Intel is set to grab the fastest CPU server spot for the first time in a decade within weeks
AMD outlined its future plans at a recent event in Los Angeles, providing details on three architectures set for release in 2024: Zen 5, RDNA 3.5, and XDNA 2. The Zen 5 architecture, which is the next generation of AMD’s CPU cores, is expected to offer a 16% improvement in…
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Microsoft releases recovery tool to help repair Windows machines hit by CrowdStrike issue
While CrowdStrike has issued an update to fix its software that led to millions of Blue Screen of Death errors, not all machines are able to automatically receive that fix. Some IT admins have reported rebooting PCs multiple times will get the necessary update, but for others the only route…
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iPhone 16 colors: every rumored shade for every model
One of the biggest decisions you’ll make when choosing an iPhone is the color you buy it in. After all, you’ll probably be keeping this phone for at least a year – and maybe way longer – and you’ll likely be looking at it many times each day. So if…
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Japanese owner of Arm gets a bargain with Graphcore purchase — could British startup stymied by lack of support embrace Arm’s licensing strategy to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI?
UK-based AI chip designer Graphcore was, for a time, considered a potential rival to Nvidia and AMD, but fell on hard times after failing to capitalize on the AI boom. Back in February 2024, we wrote Graphcore desperately needed to raise significant funds by May if it was to survive,…
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