Tag: computing
Threads is celebrating its birthday with a hidden cake giving away cool new icons
Threads is about to turn one, as Meta’s answer to X (née Twitter), officially hit the scene on July 5, 2023. Zuck sent out a pre-celebration Thread calling out more than 175 million active users on the platform, but another birthday treat is hidden in the app. Whether you’re on…
Read More
How you can get (AI versions of) Judy Garland or Burt Reynolds to read to you
Want to hear The Wizard of Oz read by Judy Garland or Sherlock Holmes read by Sir Laurence Olivier? ElevenLabs has artificial intelligence-produced voice clones of them and other deceased celebrities available on its recently launched Reader App, thanks to a deal with the estates of several performers. ElevenLabs’ Reader…
Read More
Windows 11 is poised to finally become more popular than Windows 10 – at least with PC gamers
The Steam hardware survey for June 2024 has revealed that Windows 11 is soon to overtake Windows 10 as the most popular operating system on the gaming platform. According to Valve’s most recent figures, Windows 11 now accounts for a total of 46.63% of users on the platform (of which,…
Read More
The Apple Vision Pro is finally getting Quest 3-like controllers for VR gaming
Apple made a lot of bold design choices with the Apple Vision Pro. The default strap lacks an over the head band, the battery exists as its own separate pack connected via a wire, and there are no controllers – instead you exclusively rely on hand and eye-tracking to interact…
Read More
Acemagic X1 unveiled as world’s first dual-screen laptop giving you side-by-side displays – with an unsubtle hint that it’s MacBook-level premium
Dual-screen laptops are nothing new, in one form or another, but innovations within this subset of notebooks are still coming, and the Acemagic X1 is a case in point. Acemagic just officially unveiled the X1, giving us some spec details, and the big trick here is not just that it’s…
Read More
AMD’s new FSR 3.1 loses first round fight to Nvidia DLSS in battle of the frame rate boosters
AMD‘s FSR 3.1 only launched last week, on June 27, with support for a handful of games to begin with, but already some fresh testing has revealed that DLSS 3.7, the latest take on Nvidia’s rival upscaling solution, is still miles ahead with its image quality. Digital Foundry’s testing also…
Read More