Category: computing

NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1476, Friday, July 4

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Wordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here. It’s time for your guide…

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Now might be the perfect time to buy an AMD RX 9070 XT, as retailer rumors suggest it’s hit a low for the year

AMD’s RX 9070 XT is likely to be as low as it’ll get in terms of pricing Demand for GPUs (and other components) is expected to spike later in the year On top of the effects of tariffs, this could mean substantial price hikes for graphics cards, a YouTube leaker…

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Apple and Spotify are sleepwalking into an AI music crisis – and The Velvet Sundown mess shows they need to act fast

Update, Thursday July 3: In a further twist to the story of The Velvet Sundown, we’ve been contacted by a representatives of the band who claims that “Over the past days, a number of impersonator accounts have surfaced across social media platforms, publishing fabricated statements and AI-generated imagery falsely attributed…

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AMD’s impressive free RX 9070 XT speed boosts confirmed in new benchmarks – and they make the GPU a better buy than Nvidia’s RX 5070 Ti

AMD’s RX 9070 XT is now considerably faster than it was at launch It’s 9% quicker, in fact, with the latest graphics driver compared to the initial release That’s based on benchmarking across a suite of games conducted by Hardware Unboxed, and those results are broadly reflected elsewhere, too AMD’s…

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Nobody wants 8GB GPUs from Nvidia and AMD – and this retailer just made that clear

Nvidia and AMD 8GB GPUs sales numbers are low at a German retailer The Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti and AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB models have sold significantly higher It’s a strong indication that gamers prefer GPUs with more VRAM We’re now deep into Nvidia and AMD‘s new GPU…

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ChatGPT faceplants while translating Crunchyroll anime, and some viewers are demanding human localization

Crunchyroll aired anime with obviously AI-generated subtitles that included typos, clunky phrasing, and lines like “ChatGPT said.” Fans quickly noticed and criticized the lack of human oversight The incident highlights growing concerns about AI replacing creative roles without proper review, particularly in localization, where context and tone are crucial There…

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