Google’s 10-year-old Chromecast is busted, but a fix is coming
Google recently killed the Chromecast brand, but the dongles live on—mostly. Owners of the second-generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio have noticed this week that their beloved streaming gadgets...
View ArticleLeaked GeForce RTX 5060 and 5050 specs suggest Nvidia will keep playing it safe
Nvidia has launched all of the GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs that it announced at CES, at least technically—whether you're buying from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel, it's nearly impossible to find any of these...
View ArticleOpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
The AI industry is doing its best to will "agents"—pieces of AI-driven software that can perform multistep actions on your behalf—into reality. Several tech companies, including Google, have emphasized...
View ArticlePocket Casts makes its web player free, takes shots at Spotify and AI
"The future of podcasting shouldn't be locked behind walled gardens," writes the team at Pocket Casts. To push that point forward, Pocket Casts, owned by the company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc.,...
View ArticleiRobot says there is “substantial doubt” about it as a “going concern”
Robotics firm iRobot, originator of the robotic vacuum Roomba facing stiff competition from lower-priced competitors, told investors Tuesday that there was "substantial doubt" about the company's...
View ArticleGoogle’s Gemma 3 is an open source, single-GPU AI with a 128K context window
Most new AI models go big—more parameters, more tokens, more everything. Google's newest AI model has some big numbers, but it's also tuned for efficiency. Google says the Gemma 3 open source model is...
View ArticleCockpit voice recorder survived fiery Philly crash—but stopped taping years ago
Cottman Avenue in northern Philadelphia is a busy but slightly down-on-its-luck urban thoroughfare that has had a strange couple of years. You might remember the truly bizarre 2020 press conference...
View ArticleNew Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off
After a little over three months, Intel has a new CEO to replace ousted former CEO Pat Gelsinger. Intel's board announced that Lip-Bu Tan will begin as Intel CEO on March 18, taking over from interim...
View ArticleSonos’ streaming box is reportedly canceled. Good riddance.
Sonos has canceled plans to release a streaming box, The Verge reported today. The audio company never publicly confirmed that it was making a streaming set-top box, but rumors of its impending release...
View ArticleAnthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a "button" to quit tasks they might find...
View ArticleEpic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps
Using a Windows PC with an Arm-based Snapdragon processor in it feels a lot like using a regular-old Intel or AMD PC these days, thanks to the work developers have put in to get their apps running...
View ArticleAI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming...
On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some...
View ArticleGoogle is bringing every Android game to Windows in big gaming update
The annual Game Developers Conference is about to kick off, and even though Stadia is dead and buried, Google has a lot of plans for games. It's expanding tools that help PC developers bring premium...
View ArticleGoogle’s Gemini AI can now see your search history
Google is continuing its quest to get more people to use Gemini, and it's doing that by giving away even more AI computing. Today, Google is releasing a raft of improvements for the Gemini 2.0 models,...
View ArticleGoogle has a fix for your broken Chromecast V2 unless you factory reset
Google's venerable 2015 Chromecast attempted to self-destruct earlier this week, upsetting a huge number of people who were still using the decade-old streaming dongles. Google was seemingly caught off...
View ArticleApple’s $349 iPad 11 is missing a lot, but it’s still all the iPad most...
Apple released a new version of the basic $349 iPad this week, though you could be forgiven for not noticing. The new 11th-generation iPad (also known as the "iPad (A16)" or just plain-old "iPad")...
View ArticleRCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats
One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple's decision to finally implement the Rich Communications Services (RCS) communication protocol, something that is slowly helping to fix the...
View ArticleI threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks
We’re an audiobook family at House Hutchinson, and at any given moment my wife or I are probably listening to one while puttering around. We've collected a bit over 300 of the things—mostly titles from...
View ArticleEnd of Life: Gemini will completely replace Google Assistant later this year
Pour one out for Google Assistant, the sometimes helpful but often frustrating digital assistant Google launched in 2016. In its place, users will encounter Gemini, the generative AI Google has been...
View ArticleEverything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view...
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