Tag: computing
Struggling with your broadband? A new internet speed record just hit 402Tbps – fast enough to download a 4K movie in under a millisecond
How fast an internet connection do you really want? Well, that probably varies – based on your needs, not to mention your budget for the monthly payment – but odds are you might regard 402Tbps as overkill. Yes, we didn’t mistype that – 402Tbps, as in Terabytes – and as…
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Microsoft continues to frustrate users with ads in the operating system – this time plaguing the MSN Weather app
Microsoft has made another move to push more advertising into Windows 11, with fresh ads arriving in the stock Weather app installed by default. So, alongside the likes of the Start menu and the Settings app, now the MSN Weather app will also have ads – more intrusive efforts, too,…
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Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 review: Success at last
Ever since Apple’s MacBooks switched to the company’s homegrown M-series chips, Windows users have wondered when a similar revolution would happen to their machines. To Microsoft’s credit, it hasn’t been for a lack of trying. Way back in 2012, the company released the Surface RT with an Arm-based processor, which…
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Intel Arrow Lake leak suggests big changes for next-gen CPUs including shifting up a gear to faster RAM
A fresh Arrow Lake leak seemingly gives us a look at the upcoming 800 series motherboards for the next-gen CPUs (using the LGA 1851 socket), and if genuine, it shows that Intel is providing a total of 32 PCIe lanes – with two NVMe SSD slots connected to the CPU…
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Opera’s Aria AI assistant’s big upgrade makes images, talks out loud, and summarizes chats
Gaming browser Opera GX has augmented its AI assistant Aria with several new AI tools, including creating images, speaking out loud, summarizing conversations, and linking appropriately for the conversation. Aria’s new ability to generate images from text prompts leverages Google‘s Imagen2 model. Users can generate up to 30 images per…
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Sorry, gamers: memory prices could be on the way up, which means you’ll pay more for that Nvidia RTX 5090
A new report from the tech industry grapevine could spell bad news for gamers looking to invest in the upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card. RAM costs are set to rise by 3-8% in the next three months, according to the latest report from TrendForce (via PCGamesN). This will also…
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