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Google has launched a dedicated updates page for its Bard AI, teasing that a steady stream of upgrades is headed the chatbot's way in the future. Launched in the wake of Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat, Bard is Google’s answer to the AI chatbot fad, but so far it hasn’t really impressed us. In our hands-on […]

It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints. And you might need them – because this popular online game takes the Wordle format and quadruples the difficulty. So if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints, you'll probably need some for Quordle too.  I'm a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who's been playing since […]

Better late than never, I guess, but Microsoft finally got around to fixing a five-year-old high-CPU usage bug in Mozilla Firefox. The bug, which is tied to Windows Defender's Antimalware Service Executable process, has been known to produce high-CPU usage when running Firefox compared to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Fortunately, the issue looks like […]

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 […]