Day: April 10, 2023

It seems that PC and Mac sales haven’t escaped the shadow of the cost of living crisis, going by recently released sales numbers for the first financial quarter of 2023.  According to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, PC global shipments totaled 56.9 million, which is a […]

It’s true that the arrival of the best streaming services has rendered disc formats like Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray unnecessary for some. But studios continue to issue movies both new and old on disc on a regular basis, and there are plenty of independent labels that license obscure and cult titles from studios for […]

The grapevine has been dropping plenty of rumors about a possible Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Founder’s Edition launch, and recently new images of the graphics card have been leaked. If these leaked images from VideoCardz turn out to be true, we now have a clear look at what the RTX 4070 FE will look like. […]

Ampere has slipped a new Altra developer kit into its catalog, with software creators firmly in its sights. Revealed in a tweet from the company’s head of edge, Joe Speed, the Altra Dev Kit, described by the company as an IoT prototype kit, is based on the Altra and is available in 32-core, 64-core, and […]

There's no question that Apple is hard at work on its latest next-gen silicon, the Apple M3 chip, but if a new report is correct, then it'll be a lot more advanced than we realized. It has long been speculated that Apple would be going with TSMC's 3nm process for its M3-series chips, but it […]

Smartphone batteries are bigger than ever but we spend enough time on any of them that the opportunity for a quick charge-up is something we rarely pass by. But maybe we should, at least when it comes to public charge stations. According to the FBI, they're just plain dangerous. It's called “Juice Jacking,” a term […]

A shocking number of phone calls are just spam that cost both businesses and consumers time and money, new research has claimed.  A report from spam call blocker company, Hiya analyzing more than 243 billion phone calls that were taken in 2022 by thousands of consumers and companies, found that of that number, 10% were […]

Now might be a good time to update your password to something longer and more complex, as experts have found AI systems areable to crack almost all passwords easily. Cybersecurity researchers from Home Security Heroes recently fed millions of passwords from RockYou into the PassGAN AI platform to see how fast it could crack them […]

Finally, Windows 11 may soon allow users to force quit frozen apps from the taskbar.  If you use a Windows laptop or desktop PC regularly, you are probably already familiar with the pains of having to go through hoops of force quitting an app that’s stopped working. That’s because unlike on macOS, Windows simply doesn’t […]

Despite sitting somewhat awkwardly between Word, Teams, Outlook, and the rest of its Windows productivity suite, Microsoft has announced an AI injection for OneNote as it continues with its mission to save workers time on repetitive and “mundane tasks.” Copilot, which has already weaved its way into a number of other Microsoft services, has now […]