Category: computing
NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 18 (game #441)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands 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 Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers…
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Google’s AI Overviews are often so confidently wrong that I’ve lost all trust in them
Have you Googled something recently only to be met with a cute little diamond logo above some magically-appearing words? Google’s AI Overview combines Google Gemini’s language models (which generate the responses) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, which pulls the relevant information. In theory, it’s made an incredible product, Google’s search engine, even…
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Samsung just launched the first-ever 500Hz OLED gaming monitor – but I think it’s overkill
Samsung has launched a new gaming monitor, the Odyssey OLED G6 The monitor is the first ever 500Hz OLED option on the market It will be available in other regions later this year Samsung‘s Odyssey lineup includes some of the best gaming monitors available on the market, many of which…
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Forget the Force, AI brings the late James Earl Jones’ iconic Darth Vader voice to Fortnite
You can now speak with Darth Vader in Fortnite Disney and Epic Games announced the revival of Darth Vader’s iconic voice thanks to the power of AI James Earl Jones died in 2024, but his voice lives on Disney and Epic Games have confirmed Darth Vader’s iconic voice will be…
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Acer’s new Swift Edge 14 AI laptop packs in a matte display and AI features
Acer is updating its lineup of Swift Edge, Go and X laptops at Computex with the latest Intel chips, and in of one of these Copilot+ PCs, a unique matte display treatment developed by Corning, the glass manufacturer behind the Gorilla Glass covering millions of smartphones. The beneficiary of that…
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The Acer Predator Triton 14 AI is now my most anticipated gaming laptop of the year
Acer is announcing a boatload of PCs and gadgets for Computex 2025. But among the sea of new tablets, monitors, productivity machines and more is the Predator Triton 14 AI, which just became my most anticipated laptop of the year. The Predator Triton 14 AI tops out with an RTX…
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