Month: October 2024
AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips
The alliance includes a long list of other founding members including Microsoft, Google, and Meta, as well as Lenovo, the company that hosted the announcement at its Tech World 2024 conference in Bellevue, Washington. This morning’s keynote featured appearances by AMD CEO Lisa Su as well as Intel CEO Pat…
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Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear
Adobe is previewing some experimental AI tools for animation, image generation, and cleaning up video and photographs that could eventually be added to its Creative Cloud apps. While the tools apply to vastly different mediums, all three have a similar aim — to automate most of the boring, complex tasks…
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Lenovo CEO – get ready for a new era of hybrid AI for all
The head of the world’s biggest PC maker has laid out its aims for a powerful, intelligent AI future. Speaking in his opening keynote at the Lenovo Tech World 2024 event in Bellevue, company chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang, noted how, “we use the power of AI to preserve the…
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Want capacity AND speed? WD’s 8TB SSD hailed as ‘New King of High Capacity’ by reviews but questions remain as to why there are only two such devices on the market
Western Digital knows high-capacity drives are a priority for SSD buyers, and it has responded by adding a new 8TB model to its WD Black SN850X lineup. The SN850X series has been on the market for a couple of years, offering 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models, but this 8TB version…
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Renault reveals boxy reimagining of the classic R4, proving that electric SUVs don’t need to be bland and faceless
High on the fumes of lithium-ion battery production, Renault is continuing its trip down memory lane with the unveiling of the Renault 4 E-Tech at the Paris motor show. This retro-inspired crossover is just as nostalgic as the recently released Renault 5 but with added roominess and a workhorse demeanor.…
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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun
A manifest tells the browser all sorts of information about an extension, from its name and version number to which permissions it’ll use and what versions of a browser it’ll run on. New versions of the Manifest file format change which features extensions have access to. For example, Manifest V3…
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