Category: computing
Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, May 11 (game #1203)
Looking for a different day? A new Quordle 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: Quordle hints and answers for Saturday,…
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When I die, please do not produce an AI version of me
Someday, hopefully not soon, I’ll shed this mortal coil and in short order be forgotten. Unless someone makes an AI Lance Ulanoff. In short, please don’t. I had this epiphany and realized the need for a public statement that might one day protect my likeness from appearing after my demise…
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NBC resurrects legendary NBA voice Jim Fagan using AI
NBC Sports will use an AI-generated version of legendary announcer Jim Fagan’s voice in its upcoming NBA coverage The re-creation will appear in intros and promos with the approval of Fagan’s family NBC hopes to evoke nostalgia for 1990s basketball with the AI voice The booming, baritone narration by Jim…
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I asked the Google Pixel 9a to make an image of a successful person and the results were depressingly predictable
If a new phone gave me an electric shock, I wouldn’t recommend it. Even if it only shocked me occasionally, when I open a specific app, I’d say no. If a phone wasn’t just bad, but shockingly harmful, I would say that phone, or at least the electric shock part,…
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As Nvidia struggles with RTX 5060 Ti stock, AMD’s RX 9060 XT GPU could sweep in and score a mid-range win with plentiful supply
AMD’s RX 9060 XT is rumored to launch mid-May, although the GPU may not go on sale until June A well-known YouTube leaker believes the 9060 XT will be well-stocked when it does arrive Expect similar quantities to the RX 9070 XT launch, and that could be a problem for…
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Intel releases new patch for CPUs affected by instability issues – but wait, weren’t we done with this already?
Intel has deployed a new patch for 14th-gen and 13th-gen chips This is another fix for the long-running episode around instability problems So it seems we weren’t done with fixes for those issues after all, but the new patch is admittedly addressing a niche scenario Intel has released another update…
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