Month: March 2025
The new M4 MacBook Air finally fixes an Apple keyboard annoyance that’s been around for decades
The Mac mute button now matches the on-screen graphics Keyboards for MacBooks and iPads have been updated It’s the first tweak to the button design since back in 1999 Apple unveiled some shiny new MacBook Airs for 2025 earlier this week – and as well as featuring the latest M4…
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Forza Horizon 5 will require a Microsoft account on PS5
The FAQ says that players will be prompted to link the two the first time they load the game. And if you unlink later, you “will be constrained to relinking to only that specific and originally linked” Microsoft account. The requirement stings given that there’s no cross-platform saving, so the…
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I asked Gemini to play a text-based adventure game with me and the AI whisked me away to a word-based fantasy
Gemini, Google‘s AI chatbot running the 2.0 Flash model, is well equipped to handle complex conversations, generate instant images (“I need a picture of a guy working on the weekend on his computer”), and handle difficult math equations. I know all this, and yet, sometimes, I just find myself chatting…
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The Last of Us season 2’s new trailer teases a huge showdown between Bella Ramsey’s Ellie and Pedro Pascal’s Joel, but the big moment I’m waiting for is still being held back
The Last of Us season 2’s final trailer has been released HBO’s hugely successful TV show will return to our screens in mid-April Its new teaser is full of moments pulled right of the series’ videogame namesake The Last of Us season 2 is, at the time of writing, just…
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Chinese researchers are looking to create a revolutionary type of hard drive based on organic materials but huge unknowns remain
Chinese researchers are working to develop molecular hard drives with high capacity The drives use organometallic molecules to boost data density and efficiency A conductive atomic force microscope tip reads and writes molecular data Chinese researchers are exploring the potential of organic materials to develop a new type of hard…
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NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, March 10 (game #638)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers…
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