Tag: computing
Microsoft continues the good work on Windows 11, with tweaks to ‘quiet’ ads — and that big taskbar change is ‘coming soon’
Microsoft has toned down the ads and annoyances with Windows 11’s widgets panel In testing, the new default settings are a lot less in-your-face and distracting This is part of a large slab of work to improve Windows 11 in the past month, and Microsoft has further promised another major…
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Ask Jeeves quietly shuts down after nearly three decades, after pioneering conversational web search long before ChatGPT and Gemini
Ask Jeeves has closed after almost 30 years It pioneered natural language web searches Today, ChatGPT and Gemini work in similar ways With AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini available, it’s now easy to run web searches like “what are the best sights in Rome?” or “how do you fix…
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NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #792)
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 Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers…
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Quordle hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #1561)
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 Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Sunday,…
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Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet’s favorite butler
RIP to the original AI search bot. Source
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Windows 11 is such a memory hog that I’ve had to resort to RAM optimizers — but can Microsoft turn things around with project K2?
Microsoft has a tough task ahead to optimize Windows 11, with the reported project ‘K2’ described as an effort to effectively eliminate the issues of bloatware, excessive AI usage, and provide better gaming performance, and it wants to match the latter with Valve’s SteamOS to win users’ trust back. I…
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