Author: Zach_Wilson
ChatGPT steps up its plan to become your default voice assistant on Android
A recent ChatGPT beta is giving a select group of users the ability to turn the AI into their device’s new default voice assistant on Android. This information comes from industry insider Mishaal Rahman on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) who posted a video of himself trying out…
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Lenovo joins consumer SSD market with the help of HP’s storage partner — don’t expect superfast PCIe 5.0 or USB4 SSDs just yet though
Chinese tech giant Lenovo is set to debut a range of consumer solid state drives following a new partnership with BIWIN, a memory and storage manufacturer best known for producing products for brands such as HP and Acer. As a result of this new collaboration, BIWIN will produce Lenovo-branded SSDs,…
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Looking back on 40 years of Macintosh
The Apple we know today is far removed from the one that created the first Macintosh computer that Steve Jobs showed off in a very silly presentation on January 24th, 1984. It’s been the most valuable company in the world for most of the last decade. It has a global,…
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Wired headphones are about to have a mini revival
It’s been over seven years since Apple found the “courage” to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone, in turn forcing wireless headphones into the limelight. To this day, listening to hi-res lossless music on a phone usually means a hunt for a rare handset with a 3.5mm jack…
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Streamers who rely on Twitch Prime Gaming subs are getting a slight pay cut
Twitch is making big monetization changes again in an attempt to make a more sustainable system, lowering earnings in some places and raising them in others. This new batch of changes includes expanding its Partner Plus program and changing the way its integral Twitch Prime Gaming subscription pays out creators.…
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This devious malware uses Bond-inspired driver to kill security suites — then proceeds to systematically encrypt your data and drops a $2 million ransom request
Experts have identified a new ransomware variant that uses an outdated, vulnerable driver, to pose as an antivirus program, kill all real security programs on the computer, and then infect the device. The researchers dubbed the variant Kasseika and believe it to be linked to an old malware variant that…
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