GitHub Copilot moves beyond OpenAI models to support Claude 3.5, Gemini
The large language model-based coding assistant GitHub Copilot will switch from using exclusively OpenAI's GPT models to a multi-model approach over the coming weeks, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced...
View ArticleAI, cloud boost Alphabet profits by 34 percent
Alphabet’s profit jumped 34 percent in the third quarter as the parent company of search giant Google reported strong growth in its cloud business amid robust demand for computing and data services...
View ArticleApple refreshes MacBook Pro lineup with M4 chips, introduces the M4 Max
Apple is following the M4 iMac and the redesigned Mac mini updates with one more major refresh this week: a new lineup of M4 MacBook Pros. These updates mostly follow the template set by last year's M3...
View ArticleM2 and M3 MacBook Air models get bumped to 16GB of RAM for no extra money
Apple's week of Mac announcements isn't extending to an M4 MacBook Air—rumors indicate that the Air, as well as desktops like the Mac Studio and Mac Pro, will get new processors sometime in 2025. But...
View ArticleAmid controversial changes, Reddit is getting more popular—and profitable
In May 2023, Reddit announced that its API would no longer be free, signaling the demise of most third-party Reddit apps and the start of a new Reddit era. Reddit was always interested in making money,...
View ArticleProton is the latest entrant in the quirky “VPN for your TV” market
Streaming in the US has become a broken and fiendishly complex tangle of ephemeral choices—and that's before you factor in sports. You can see why it might seem somehow easier to stream shows from...
View ArticleApple’s M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max compared to past generations, and to each other
Apple's week of Mac announcements has wrapped up this morning with the launch of the new M4 MacBook Pros, and we now have a full picture of the M4 chip lineup that will drive the Mac for the next year...
View ArticleMicrosoft reports big profits amid massive AI investments
Microsoft reported quarterly earnings that impressed investors and showed how resilient the company is even as it spends heavily on AI. Some investors have been uneasy about the company's aggressive...
View ArticleConsumers won’t be offered all three years of extended Windows 10 security...
Most Windows 10 PCs will stop getting new security updates in October 2025, less than a year from today. For businesses and schools, the company is offering up to three years of extended security...
View ArticleOver 500 Amazon workers decry “non-data-driven” logic for 5-day RTO policy
More than 500 Amazon workers reportedly signed a letter to Amazon Web Services' (AWS) CEO this week, sharing their outrage over Amazon's upcoming return-to-office (RTO) policy that will force workers...
View ArticlePixel phones are getting an actual weather app in 2024, with a bit of AI
Google's stated mission is to "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." For a very long time, then, it has been odd that one of its biggest platforms, Android,...
View ArticleNot just ChatGPT anymore: Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude get desktop apps
There's a lot going on in the world of Mac apps for popular AI services. In the past week, Anthropic has released a desktop app for its popular Claude chatbot, and Perplexity launched a native app for...
View ArticleMicrosoft delays rollout of the Windows 11 Recall feature yet again
When Microsoft launched its Copilot+ AI PC initiative over the summer, one of the flagship features was Recall, a feature that would log months' worth of your PC usage, with the stated goal of helping...
View ArticleCharger recall spells more bad news for Humane’s maligned AI Pin
Humane’s AI Pin was already struggling to take off, but the company's troubles deepened on Thursday as it recalled the product's portable charging case. Humane released the AI Pin in April 2024. It’s a...
View ArticleApple is snapping up one of the best non-Adobe image editors, Pixelmator
Pixelmator, the Lithuania-based firm that makes popular Mac-based photo editing tools, has agreed to be acquired by Apple. The company says that, pending regulatory approval, there will be "no material...
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Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste
Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones. More than 260 million vape batteries are estimated...
View ArticleCorning faces antitrust actions for its Gorilla Glass dominance
The European Commission (EC) has opened an antitrust investigation into US-based glass-maker Corning, claiming that its Gorilla Glass has dominated the mobile phone screen market due to restrictive...
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Thoughts on the M4 iMac, and making peace with the death of the 27-inch model
The M4 iMac is a nice computer. Apple's addition of 16GB RAM to the basic $1,299 model makes it a whole lot more appealing for the vast majority of people who just want to take the computer out of the...
View ArticleReview: M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple’s best Mac minis ever
The Mac mini will celebrate its 20th birthday in January. And I think the M4 version of the Mac mini is far and away the most appealing one the company has ever made. When it was introduced during the...
View ArticleNotepad.exe, now an actively maintained app, has gotten its inevitable AI update
Among the decades-old Windows apps to get renewed attention from Microsoft during the Windows 11 era is Notepad, the basic built-in text editor that was much the same in early 2021 as it had been in...
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