Month: August 2024
AMD’s new Zen 5 CPUs fail to impress during early reviews
AMD launched its first Zen 5 desktop processors earlier this month, and tomorrow, it’s about to release what looks like a disappointing flagship Ryzen 9 9950X CPU. Early reviews of the initial Zen 5 CPUs — the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X — revealed a lack of performance…
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How technology and financial literacy can help e-commerce businesses thrive
Having an e-commerce presence is a double-edged sword for vendors attempting to grow their business. Marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart dominate a significant portion of the e-commerce market and offer immense reach and potential customers, but they also come with a price tag – often in the form of shrinking…
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Why is the Sonos app so broken?
Following a major update back in the spring, the Sonos app was very broken and missing key functionality. The company admitted it made a huge mistake in pushing the redesign too soon and explained that it has since uncovered more “issues” that have prohibited it from adding those missing features.…
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How to troubleshoot someone else’s computer remotely
If you read The Verge, then you probably know your tech, and so it’s likely that you’re sometimes asked to help troubleshoot computer issues by friends, family, and / or neighbors. It can be something as simple as just turning on the Wi-Fi or as complicated as having to update…
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Media and entertainment firms are being hit with more cyberattacks than ever
Adding new services to the corporate infrastructure substantially increases the attack surface, and thus the chance of being successfully hit with a cyberattack. Despite this, enterprises across the majority of industries are adding many new services every month, risking devastating breaches, experts have warned. A new report from Palo Alto…
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AI overshadowed Pixel at the Pixel event
Google’s Tuesday event was ostensibly about Pixel hardware. Really, it was about AI. Google’s Rick Osterloh made that clear from the moment he walked onstage, where his initial remarks focused a lot more on Google’s artificial intelligence efforts than devices: A few months ago at Google I/O, we shared a…
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