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Google is introducing several new privacy changes to its search engine including an alert system that lets you know if personal information suddenly pops up online. The alerts will be a part of the Results About You tool which is getting an improved dashboard letting “you know if web results with your contact [details] are […]

If you recently updated Windows 11, you may have spotted the following message when trying to open the Cortana app: “Cortana in Windows as a standalone app is deprecated.” Microsoft is finally cutting off support to Cortana, its Windows Phone-era assistant that first launched with Windows 10 back in 2014, in favor of AI features […]

After teasing it in March, Lenovo will soon launch its first 14-inch Legion gaming laptop – the appropriately named Legion Slim 5. As the old saying goes, big things come in small packages because, even though the Legion Slim 5 weighs 4.19lbs (1.9 kg), there's a lot of muscle behind it. The full specs sheet […]

It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's good fun, […]

The US PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) Education Fund has recently published a letter criticizing Google for its unwillingness to update 13 Chromebook models, leaving many with expired laptops. Back in June 2023, parents and environmentalists wrote a letter asking the tech giant to provide important software updates to Chromebooks. Back in 2020, school districts […]

It might be the end of the road for Blu-ray discs. That news comes to us from Australia’s Sky News (via Tom’s Hardware) and it has shifted our physical media-loving brains into meltdown. While the news pertains to only one movie studio and one continent, it could be the beginning of a grim trend, as […]

Newly leaked benchmarks for the Intel Arc A580 graphics card apparently showcase not only its test results but what those results mean compared to its potential competition. According to the leaked benchmark data from Geekbench (and reported on by Wccftech), the Arc A580 has 24 cores, 384 EUs, and 3072 ALUs, with a clock speed […]

Russian military hackers are reportedly using compromised Microsoft 365 accounts to target businesses in the United States, and have so far successfully breached up to 40 firms. A new report from Microsoft’s researchers claims to have spotted a group they track as Midnight Blizzard (also known as NOBELIUM, or Cozy Bear) – a known Russian […]

Google Search is the cornerstone of just about everyone’s online experience. Often, it’s the first thing you see when you boot up your computer in the morning, and the first place you go on your phone when planning trips, asking questions, or looking for recommendations. The household-name search engine company has already shown its chops […]

Popular ecommerce website builder BigCommerce has revealed a major investment in AI and ML with plans to add new AI-powered features to its ecommerce hosting platform. Leveraging Google Cloud’s AI technologies, these new features support enterprise merchants who want to improve operational efficiencies. BigCommerce’s AI-powered solutions will become globally available by the end of 2023. […]