Tag: Technology & Electronics
The Morning After: Apple tests App Store discounts
Apple says it’s testing a new App Store feature called contingent pricing to lure customers into cheaper subscriptions based on their other purchases. This contingent pricing model will let developers offer discounts to customers who already have subscriptions to other services, be it those developers’ own apps or connected partner…
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Samsung HW-Q990C soundbar review: An all-inclusive Atmos setup
Shopping for a home theater setup typically means buying a soundbar, subwoofer and rear speakers separately. Some companies may include a sub with the soundbar, but you don’t always get everything you’ll need for the most immersive sound in the same box with high-end models. Samsung includes all of those…
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The best laptops for 2024
Whether you’re looking to upgrade your own laptop soon or buy one as a gift for someone you love, you have plenty of options to choose from. Too many, some might say: with the dozens of models available from Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo and other brands, it can be confusing…
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The Morning After: Intel unveils its first chips built for AI work
Just a week after AMD revealed its own Ryzen 8040 hardware, Intel has entered its own AI PC era. The company’s new Core Ultra notebook chips, codenamed Meteor Lake, are Intel’s first processors to include an NPU, or neural processing unit, for accelerating AI tasks. Intel claims the Core Ultra…
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Agility’s Digit warehouse robot understands natural language commands thanks to AI smarts
Agility Robotics shared a demo video Wednesday of one of its Digit robots upgraded with AI. Although that may conjure terrifying pop-culture images of sentient sci-fi machines taking over the world, the demo video reveals something much more pedestrian, if not boring. The bipedal warehouse robot ploddingly works to complete…
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The best gaming laptops for 2024
Gaming laptops have been some of the most intriguing portable PCs for the past few years. As with most of the best laptops available now, they’ve gotten thinner and lighter, but they’ve also become vastly more powerful and efficient thanks to advanced CPUs and GPUs. They’ve also adopted some bold…
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