Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Computing

Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy

AMD says its MI300 AI accelerator is “now tracking to be the fastest revenue ramp of any product in our history”.While that doesn’t quite tell us how well AMD’s competing with Nvidia in the AI gold rush, AMD...

The Arc browser is getting better bookmarks and search results, all thanks to AI

Only a few days after releasing an AI-powered mobile app, called Arc Search, The Browser Company is making some big (and of course AI-powered) changes to its desktop browser as well.Unlike Arc Search, though, which is essentially a...

Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies

During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate. With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and...

Microsoft’s new OneDrive design starts rolling out for consumers

Microsoft is starting to roll out a new design for its OneDrive cloud storage service for consumers. The software maker first unveiled a Fluent design refresh for OneDrive last year, and it will be available to all OneDrive...

JBL’s retro-inspired Authentics speakers are on sale for nearly 25 percent off

I know that someone, somewhere, shares my thinking that the virtual assistants we’ve grown fond of are mortal enemies somewhere in a digital parallel universe. But JBL’s new line of Authentics speakers has warped everything I thought I...

Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro at launch

Microsoft is launching a suite of its Microsoft 365 apps on Apple’s Vision Pro headset later this week. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Microsoft Teams will all be available in the App Store for Apple...

Microsoft’s Surface devices down again in Q2 earnings as Xbox picks up Activision revenue

Microsoft just posted the second quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $62 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q2. Revenue is up 18 percent, and net income has increased by...

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I...

X appears to block Taylor Swift searches… barely

X appears to have blocked searches for Taylor Swift as a reaction to a recent trend of graphic AI fakes of the world-famous recording artist being posted to the site. Right now, if you search “Taylor Swift” or...
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Garmin Venu 2 Plus

Verdict The Garmin Venu 2 Plus is a Venu 2 with a slightly trimmer frame and some new smartwatch-style...
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