Tag: computing
Windows 11 remains an unloved OS – but why won’t people upgrade?
Windows 11 is still struggling to attract folks to upgrade, going by the latest stats on the desktop OS market from a major analyst firm. TechSpot noticed the new figures for last month from StatCounter, one of the main outfits that keeps tabs on Windows versions and their relative levels…
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Taiwan has cutting-edge display tech to show off with Taiwan Excellence Awards
The display is how we interface with a great many technologies. The quality of the display can make or break the experience. And in some cases, new display technology can create experiences unlike anything we’ve encountered before. It’s those transformational technologies that Taiwan aims to honor with the Taiwan Excellence…
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Google Assistant is finally getting Bard’s AI smarts – and it could help run your life
It makes sense for the generative AI engine Google Bard to add some of its smarts to the Google Assistant tool that’s been setting alarms and looking up facts on the web for years – and that’s exactly what Google has just announced at its Made by Google 2023 event.…
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Apple rumored to launch a new Mac in October – or maybe more than one
It appears Apple has a new Mac waiting in the wings to unleash on the world later this month, according to some fresh chatter on the grapevine. This comes from MacRumors which tapped a source for info relating to Mac trade-ins and how this could indicate the emergence of a…
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Nvidia RTX 3060 grabs the top spot for Steam GPUs – but is something else happening here?
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 graphics card has made a big leap to take the top spot in the ranking of the most popular GPUs used on Steam, according to the latest hardware survey conducted by Valve. The survey data for September shows that the RTX 3060 rose from 4.87% the previous…
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Surface Laptop Go 3 review: Microsoft’s basic PC grows up
When the Surface Laptop Go debuted three years ago, it seemed like Microsoft pushed itself to make the cheapest possible notebook without sacrificing that Surface flair. The result was a $549 computer with specs so anemic I'd never recommend it to anyone. But, if you spent a bit more, you…
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