Author: Zach_Wilson
ICYMI: the week’s 8 biggest tech stories, from the iPhone 16e to Wi-Fi 7 routers and a crackdown on Kindle piracy
We say this every week, but what a week it’s been in tech: we’ve seen a flurry of new product launches, reported on a seismic shift in one of the biggest movie franchises in history, and spent some time with the thinnest foldable phone on the planet. It’s a lot…
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The Handmaid’s Tale season 6: everything we know so far about the hit Hulu show’s return
The Handmaid’s Tale season 6: key information – Coming to Hulu in April 2025– No official trailer, but short teaser unveiled– Main cast all set to return– New cast member announced– Final season, but sequel, The Testaments, in the works The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 will arrive in spring 2025,…
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Nvidia confirms ‘rare’ RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti manufacturing issue
We have identified a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs which have one fewer ROP than specified. The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute workloads. Affected consumers can contact the…
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I used NoteBookLM to help with productivity – here’s 5 top tips to get the most from Google’s AI audio tool
The idea of AI podcasts built from whatever documents you have lying around still feels like a trick of some kind, but Google‘s NotebookLM has shown me repeatedly that it can make informative, if not always lively, audio episodes on whatever subject I like. The concept is simple: texts and…
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Reddit is experiencing outages again
Following some apparent outages yesterday, Reddit is dealing with more issues Friday evening. When logged in on my desktop browser, Reddit won’t load at all — I just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loads, though it seems to load slower than usual. I was also…
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OpenAI confirms 400 million weekly ChatGPT users – here’s 5 great ways to use the world’s most popular AI chatbot
ChatGPT is used by 400 million people a week, as confirmed by OpenAI in a Reuters report. That’s a shocking number, considering the AI chatbot is only a little over two years old. It makes ChatGPT one of the most widely used digital tools on the planet, putting it in…
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