Month: January 2025
The cheapest 2TB external SSD ever costs less an equivalent internal SSD, reaches speeds of 1GB/s and I can’t see a catch
The Patriot Transporter 2TB external portable SSD retails for under $90 at Amazon It has read/write speeds of up to 1GB/s, twice that of comparably priced internal SATA SSDs It is still more expensive than 2TB portable hard disk drives but the price gap is at its lowest ever The…
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Tesla’s profits slide over 70 percent in the fourth quarter
It’s one week into Elon Musk’s new role as chief cost-cutter for the Trump administration, but today, his side hustle as CEO of Tesla takes center stage with the release of the company’s latest earnings report. During the fourth quarter of 2024, Tesla said it earned $2.3 billion in net…
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Travel data of almost 500,000 users exposed in Daytrip leak
Travel site Daytrip has fallen victim to a data leak The leak reportedly originated through a third party vendor Up to 470,000 customers could be at risk Travel company Daytrip has had 470,000 user records and 762,000 travel orders compromised online. The dataset, discovered by Cybernews researchers, was stored on…
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Garmin has new solutions for watches stuck on the ‘blue triangle of death’
Garmin has shared new ways to fix its smartwatches that are stuck on the “blue triangle of death,” and says it has resolved the underlying issue causing a boot-up error that’s been stopping owners from using their watches. The steps should get more watches working again — but some models…
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Netflix finally brings a major Android feature to iPhones – and I could not be happier
Netflix adds Download Season to iPhone and iPad apps The update comes after Android users got it It follows a significant price increase During the dark days, the ones where my home broadband network went offline, we struggled to stream Netflix content on our iPads and iPhones. If only we’d…
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Gemini can now do more complex data analysis in Google Sheets
If you love nothing more than good data visualization, Google’s latest Sheets update will be right up your alley. The company has begun rolling out an upgrade to the app’s Gemini side panel, a feature it introduced this past summer, to give its AI agent the ability to generate more…
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