Author: Zach_Wilson
Apple Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 2023) Review: The Mac Pro Killer
Despite its small size, this is an excellent desktop computer for power users. Source
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Dumb Money’s first trailer has us rooting for amateur Reddit investors
There’s no shortage of movies already based on real-life, historical incidents surrounding the Stock Market, but everything in the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming Dumb Money film — a biographical comedy-drama covering the events of the GameStop short squeeze — beautifully demonstrates why we have such an appetite for them.…
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Amazon is putting up $100m to battle Microsoft and Google for the next generation of AI
While many companies are focused on bringing their versions of AI tools and AI writers to market, Amazon’s cloud division has been focused on helping startups reach that point instead, and the launch of its Generative AI Innovation Center takes that one step further. The program is designed to connect…
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YouTube is making it easier for creators to choose that perfect thumbnail
The process of picking that all-important thumbnail for your latest YouTube video might be getting a lot easier soon. YouTube says it’s conducting early testing of a feature it’s calling “Test & Compare,” which lets creators upload up to three thumbnails for a single video and let YouTube experiment behind…
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Don’t worry, WhatsApp isn’t actually using your phone’s microphone to listen in
Google finally acknowledged and fixed an Android bug that caused WhatsApp to gain unauthorized access to a smartphone’s microphone. If you’re not super familiar with the story, around early April some people began noticing, and reporting online, that the software was using their device’s mic without their consent. This issue…
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Reddit pressures mods to end the blackout as they find new ways to protest
Reddit appears to be ramping up the pressure on moderators to open communities that closed in the blackout protest against recently announced platform changes. A Reddit admin — an employee of Reddit — has told unpaid volunteer moderators of a subreddit that the “expectation here is that communities reopen,” according to…
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