Tag: computing
These 5 awful keyboard trends need to stay in 2024
I might step on some toes with this one. But I can’t stand idly by and watch as my favorite PC peripheral is covered with ugly design choices and marred with fanciful features that add little but dollars to the price tag. And that’s not to say I hate when…
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Quordle today – my hints and answers for Sunday, January 26 (game #1098)
Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers. Enjoy playing word games? You can also…
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NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, January 26 (game #329)
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints…
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OpenAI’s Operator is one more step towards AGI, but should we be worried about giving too much power to AI agents?
As expected, OpenAI has released its first autonomous AI agent, called Operator this week. Operator can act independently from you on your computer using a web browser doing pretty much anything that can be done in a web browser. So, it can perform tasks like booking a restaurant table or…
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Leaked memo may have revealed Apple’s top two AI priorities in 2025
Apple has some catching up to do in AI Siri upgrades are reportedly a priority Apple also wants improved AI models We’ve seen Apple Intelligence launched with a whole lot of hype over the last 12 months, and it seems there’s a lot more to come in this area –…
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Sorry, AMD, Nvidia’s price tags for its RTX 5000 GPUs could win me over
One of my main complaints concerning Nvidia‘s RTX 4000-series of graphics isn’t, surprisingly enough, the massive wattage (though that is a legitimate concern) but the pricing. For the past couple of generations, Nvidia has been massively hiking up the cost of its cards, especially its best graphics cards like the…
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