Author: Zach_Wilson
The Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying
The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable. Source
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ChatGPT o1-preview can solve riddles faster than me and I kind of hate it for it
When OpenAI released the much-hyped Strawberry model for ChatGPT this week, it boasted of its prowess with complex logic like software coding, gene sequencing, and quantum physics in a series of videos. I take the company at its word that the models, called o1-preview and o1-mini on ChatGPT, are capable…
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Youtube’s pesky new pause screen ads are its latest attempt to push you to Premium
We’ve been reporting on YouTube‘s increasingly annoying ads for a long time now: the plans for unskippable TV ads from early last year, followed by the arrival of longer ads on smart TVs last December, and so on. And now the streamer has found a new way to really push…
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Ransomware attacks are soaring to a new high
New analysis from Symantec has revealed a significant increase in the number of ransomware attacks in the second quarter of 2024. The company’s figures claimed criminal groups claimed 1,310 attacks during the period, a 36% increase from the previous quarter, and close to the all-time high of 1,488 attacks recorded…
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Snappy could improve smartphone photography with a stabilized grip
The Camera Control on the new iPhone 16 lineup is Apple’s attempt to improve the ergonomics of smartphone photography, but it doesn’t solve the problem of securely holding on to those smooth rectangular slabs while framing a shot. Similar to accessories we’ve seen from companies like Xiaomi, the Snappy adds…
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One of our top MagSafe-compatible power banks is 40 percent off, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
End-of-summer and back-to-school sales have mostly expired and, while we know Amazon will have another Prime Day sale in October, we don’t know when just yet. That makes this just another week of our team hunting and searching for deals all across the world wide web. We actually found quite…
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