Tag: computing
Apple rumored to be switching its Mac accessories to USB-C early in 2024
The iPhone 15 made the switch to USB-C this year, but the Lightning port lives on with several Mac accessories. The latest rumor is that these accessories will get updated with USB-C ports in the first half of next year. This is according to Instant Digital on Chinese social media…
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Google’s Chrome browser to allow for picking a default search engine – but far from everyone gets a choice
Google is in the process of making a useful change to its Chrome browser on the desktop whereby users will get a choice of the search engine they want to use by default – but the catch is this is only happening in Europe. Specifically, this change is incoming for…
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Hate the widgets board in Windows 11? Microsoft hopes you might change your mind
Windows 11 is bringing the ability to banish the clutter from the widgets panel to all users, you’ll doubtless be pleased to hear – maybe opening up this part of the interface to being used by a lot more folks. Previously, we heard about the option to remove the news…
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AMD reveals a full stack of shiny new Ryzen laptop processors, supercharged with AI
Hot on the heels of a catty attack from Intel, AMD has just announced the next lineup of Ryzen processors that we’ll be seeing in next year’s best laptops – a whopping nine new chips, all bearing the Ryzen 8040 name and equipped with AMD’s ‘XDNA’ AI technology. The new…
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Google Bard’s biggest AI upgrade so far sees it close the gap on ChatGPT
Google Bard is receiving a huge boost in performance as it will now be powered by the company’s “most capable AI model”, Gemini. This news may come as a surprise as recent reports circulated claiming that Gemini’s launch was being delayed due to poor performance across multiple languages. But now,…
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AMD’s Ryzen 8040 chips remind Intel it’s falling behind in AI PCs
Last January, AMD beat out Intel by launching its Ryzen 7040 chips, the first x86 processors to integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) for AI workloads. Intel's long-delayed Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" chips, its first to integrate an NPU, are set to arrive on December 14th. But it seems AMD…
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