Tag: computing
Windows 11 could soon fix your password headaches as Microsoft welcomes third-party passkeys to the OS
Microsoft is making it easier for Windows 11 users to log in to their various services and websites without having to remember a plethora of passwords, instead using passkeys, for which the software giant has just broadened its support. Specifically, Microsoft has just introduced support in Windows 11 for third-party…
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AI tastebuds are better at identifying what’s in food than you
Picking out individual ingredients from a dish can be a fun, if difficult, part of a meal. Professional chefs and food scientists can spend years refining their palettes. Now, a robot may be able to join in the activity thanks to the researchers behind a robotic taster that combines AI…
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Intel’s already working on its 3rd-gen Celestial GPUs – but we’re still waiting for discrete 2nd-gen Battlemage graphics cards
Intel is already working on support for its Xe3 GPU architecture in Linux – even though Xe3, codenamed Celestial, won’t be used in any chips until late in 2025 (at the earliest) Indeed, Battlemage, Intel’s 2nd-gen Arc graphics, is only just here (in Lunar Lake laptops as the integrated GPU),…
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Amazon’s new AI guides know what you want to buy before you do
Amazon is infusing AI into a new facet of its online shopping experience with the release of its AI Shopping Guides. The new feature aims to take over the product research part of hunting for a product by employing generative AI models that make personalized companions for your search. You…
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Planning on updating to Windows 11 24H2? You might want to grab a snack, as Microsoft admits it could take a very long time
Windows 11 24H2 has got off to a somewhat wobbly start – with a number of bugs being discovered, though thankfully, there are no huge blunders (yet) – but one thing to be aware of is that the upgrade can take a pretty long time to install. There’s an official…
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AMD Ryzen 9800X3D leak suggests a big leap in clock speeds – and a CPU shaping up to be Intel’s worst nightmare
A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak provides us with a tempting glimpse of some potentially major advances made by this next-gen CPU in terms of clock speeds for 3D V-Cache chips, where a large cache has been a considerable drag factor on the clock frequency achieved. Maybe that isn’t…
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