Author: Zach_Wilson
Dear tech industry, we don’t need to follow behind gaming with terrible product trade-in values
Recently a story made headlines concerning a potential seller finding out just how bad Microcenter’s trade-in value is for a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. The retailer only offered $700 for a card that’s currently priced at nearly $2000 on its own online store, less than half its original…
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Your Happy Hacking Keyboard deserves some fresh caps
Listen, I don’t want to be the guy who always posts about weird keyboard stuff. I have other interests. But I need to tell the dozens of Verge readers with Topre keyboards about these keycaps. Ursa is a new spherical doubleshot keycap profile for Topre that is available for group…
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All the news on Qi2 wireless charging
No matter which charger you buy, all three deliver 15 watts of power to the iPhone 13, 14, and 15, which is twice as fast as its Qi-based predecessors. However, the 6,600mAh MagGo Power Bank comes with a foldable kickstand that’s even sturdier than its excellent predecessor. Unfortunately, it’s heavier, so…
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TP-Link routers are still being bombarded with botnet and malware threats
More than a year after a patch was released, hackers are still competing to compromise vulnerable TP-Link Wi-Fi routers. A report from Fortinet claims half a dozen botnet operators are scanning for vulnerable TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers after cybersecurity researchers discovered a high-severity unauthenticated command injection flaw in the…
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Meta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including Gemini
Llama 3 currently features two model weights, with 8B and 70B parameters. (The B is for billions and represents how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands.) It only offers text-based responses so far, but Meta says these are “a major leap” over the previous…
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Meta rolls out new Meta AI website, and it might just bury Microsoft and Google’s AI dreams
Meta AI is getting a new upgrade as Meta tries to establish dominance in the generative AI marketplace against OpenAI and Google. The announcement came from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself on Threads, where he touted some stats and details about the new Llama 3 model used to underpin Meta…
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