Tag: computing

Best Black Friday laptop deals: Save on machines from Apple, Microsoft, Lenovo, ASUS and others

Black Friday is underway, which means many retailers are advertising a heap of computer discounts across their storefronts. Per usual, most of those aren’t any good. But if you need a new notebook, we’ve picked through the selection, checked price histories and rounded up the Black Friday laptop deals that…

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Google has a new chess game that lets you design the pieces with AI

GenChess lets you design the pieces with AI then play the board It uses the Imagen 3 image-generation engine from Google Gemini GenChess is free to play and you can redesign the pieces as many times as you like As well as being a main event sponsor of the 2024…

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Fastest ever OLED gaming monitor from Samsung could hit 500Hz, outgunning LG and rivals – if you can wait six months or so

There could be a new fastest OLED monitor arriving next year, as a rumor suggests there’s a panel in the works from Samsung Display that will offer a super-speedy 500Hz refresh rate. ET News (via TweakTown) picked up on the 500Hz capable OLED monitor which Samsung is apparently in the…

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Can’t find the right Spotify playlist? Let Gemini do it for you

Google Gemini is singing a new tune courtesy of Spotify and the new Gemini Extension for Android devices. The AI assistant will search for and play music for you on the streaming platform without the need for specific command phrases, instead relying on the same natural language you can use…

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The OpenAI Sora protest is just a taste of what’s coming in 2025 – here’s what needs to change

The recent protest against OpenAI by its unpaid beta testers has once again demonstrated that the goals of well-funded AI companies are often at odds with the goals of the artists whose time is used in testing or whose work has been used to train the AI in the first…

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Your Apple ID is not suspended – how to avoid the latest dangerous phishing scam

New phishing scam looks like an official email from Apple Links to fake Apple login screen that will steal your credentials Double-check that the email comes from an Apple.com address Scammers are always trying new tactics to steal your personal information. The latest phishing scam is no exception: cybercriminals are…

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