Category: Personal Investing Ideas & Strategies
Meta’s Oversight Board made just 53 decisions in 2023
The Oversight Board has published its latest annual report looking at its influence on Meta and ability to shift the policies that govern Facebook and Instagram. The board says that in 2023 it received 398,597 appeals, the vast majority of which came from Facebook users. But it took on only…
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Surface Pro Copilot+ review: The best Surface tablet ever made, no thanks to AI
It’s taken 12 years, but Microsoft has finally made an Arm-powered Surface tablet that I don’t want to toss out of a window. The new Surface Pro, one of the company’s first Copilot+ AI PCs, is astoundingly fast and power-efficient, thanks to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chip. It can…
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The Morning After: Apple may be planning thinner iPhones, MacBooks and Watches
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s mission to make its thinnest product ever won’t stop at the iPad Pro — the company also has plans for a skinnier Macbook Pro, Apple Watch and iPhone. Gurman says the slimmed-down iPhone — also rumored by The Information — could come as early…
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The Morning After: Microsoft pauses its creepy Recall AI feature
Microsoft has belatedly cottoned on to the whole “using AI to watch someone’s screen might be a bit creepy” thing. It has announced it will limit the launch of Recall, which was due to arrive alongside the first batch of Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs on June 18. Instead, it will…
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TikTok’s AI efforts reportedly exploit loopholes to use premium Nvidia chips
The US has banned companies like Nvidia from selling their most advanced AI chips to China since 2022. But if loopholes exist, profit-hungry corporations will find and exploit them. The Information published a bombshell report on Thursday detailing how Oracle allows TikTok owner ByteDance to rent Nvidia’s most advanced chips…
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Breville InFizz Fusion review: The bubble master
A long time ago I watched a video about John Nese, owner of the iconic Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in LA, and one thing that stuck with me was his response after being asked how much soda he drinks. Nese said that even though he’ll have one or two a…
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