Month: October 2024

Windows 11 is spiking in popularity – even if Windows 10 remains way more popular, and Windows 7 just refuses to die

Windows 11 has never been more popular – and, well, that’s not saying all that much, but in fairness, it seems the operating system may finally be reaching a turning point where adoption could speed up meaningfully. The question is: why might this be happening? We’ll come back to discuss…

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Parents can now set Fortnite time limits

Fortnite is getting controls that let parents set time limits for how much their children play the game. Parents will be able to pick how much their child can play Fortnite per day, select windows for when they can play, and choose if their child has the ability to ask…

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DreamHost makes AI your WordPress web designer

One of the best website builder and web hosting companies, DreamHost has released a suite of new tools on its WordPress AI website builder platform. The new DreamHost Liftoff website builder employs AI to streamline WordPress website creation and deployment without requiring extensive coding skills.  Instead, Liftoff is aimed at…

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The Morning After: Verizon and PlayStation’s network separately hit by outages

It was a messy Monday if you were a Verizon customer or wanted some PS5 gaming in the evening. First, Verizon mobile customers reported outages across the US on Monday. At around 9:30AM ET, hundreds of thousands of users flagged problems with their mobile service on Downdetector. Reports spiked at…

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Serve is partnering with Wing to expand the range of its robot deliveries

Serve Robotics has announced a pilot partnership with Wing Aviation to expand the range of its autonomous food delivery without requiring restaurants to install new equipment to accommodate drone pickups. Serve, which was spun out of the app-based delivery company Postmates in 2021, has been making Uber Eats food deliveries…

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These ‘world first’ wireless DJ headphones ditch Bluetooth for a custom ‘ultra-low latency’ connection

Even some of the best wireless headphones have a flaw that isn’t obvious to music fans, but that can be a deal-breaker for music makers and DJs: latency. That’s the delay between the audio being sent and it arriving in your ears, and while a little latency isn’t usually a…

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