Month: August 2025
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek’s R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. It was an unusually quick turnaround for a new model on Azure that also set a new bar for success. A few months later, Nadella then…
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Instagram adds a new friends map feature that sure looks a lot like the Snap Map
Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends, though the long-awaited reposting tool is nothing ot sneeze at, either. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature…
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The deadline for nominations for the TechRadar Choice Awards 2025 has been extended – don’t miss out on helping your favorite tech to win!
Update: We’ve extended the deadline for entries for this year’s awards until August 22nd, 2025! You can nominate a product for the awards here. The TechRadar team is delighted to announce that the TechRadar Choice Awards 2025 are coming later this year, and as always, they’ll give our reader the…
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Peloton pivots to wellness alongside another layoff
Peloton has pivoted many times over the past few years in its quest to return to profitability. The latest, as announced in its Q4 2025 earnings call, is leaning into health and wellness instead of “just” cardio fitness. “With each passing year, we are coming to understand better the importance…
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Framework Desktop (2025) Review: Powerful, but perhaps not for everyone
The most obvious question is “Why?” Framework builds modular, repairable laptops that anyone can take apart and put back together again. It’s a big deal in an era where laptops are regularly sold as a single unit that, should one part break, goes in the trash. Since every part of…
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Framework Desktop Review: A Delightful Surprise
While it’s not as revolutionary as the Framework Laptop, the Framework Desktop manages to combine a worthwhile balance of performance, upgradability, and size. Source
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