Conrad was the CTO of Pandora for 10 years, the VP of product at Snapchat for two years, and the chief product officer at the failed Quibi streaming service. He has been heading work to fix the app with Nick Millington, Sonos’ chief product officer and the architect behind the original app, Sonos spokesperson Erin ..
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The brand behind the monitor is Koorui, a three-year-old Chinese firm whose website currently lists monitors and keyboards. Koorui hasn’t confirmed when it will make its 750 Hz display available, where it will sell it, or what it will cost. That should bring some skepticism about this product actually arriving for purchase in the US. ..
The GNU General Public License (GPL) and its “Lesser” version (LGPL) are widely known and used. Still, every so often, a networking hardware maker has to get sued to make sure everyone knows how it works. The latest such router company to face legal repercussions is AVM, the Berlin-based maker of the most popular home ..
But if you’re attempting to use a Pi as a general-purpose PC, more RAM means more apps and more browser tabs with less virtual memory use, which ought to help the whole system stay responsive. It could also be helpful if you’re trying to run multiple VMs or Docker containers on the same Pi. Upton ..
Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers sounds like a very niche local meetup, one with hats and T-shirts that barely fit the name. But it’s really a “neutral space” for funding and support, corralling together some big names with a stake in the future of Chrome’s open source roots, Chromium. The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit started in ..
The Pixel 4a, a well-regarded release in Google’s line of budget-minded phones with nice cameras and decent stock software, was not supposed to get any more updates. This week, it will receive a rather uncommon one—one that intends to lower its reported battery life. The Pixel 4a, released in the summer of 2020, was discontinued ..
Apple plans to release a software update that is meant to help users understand better that its notification summaries are AI-generated and may contain errors, according to a recent BBC news story. The update is a response to reports that the summaries gave users misleading information about world events. For example, one false summary suggested ..
We’ve all had a good seven years to figure out why our interconnected devices refused to work properly with the HDMI 2.1 specification. The HDMI Forum announced at CES today that it’s time to start considering new headaches. HDMI 2.2 will require new cables for full compatibility, but it has the same physical connectors. Tiny ..
Intel’s five new H-series Core Ultra 200 processors, based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Credit: Intel Most of the H-series chips have a base power of 28 W and a maximum Turbo power of up to 60 W, but the high-end Core Ultra 9 285H lists a 45 W base power and 115 W maximum ..
Last January at CES, Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2024 the “year of the AI PC.” And whether you believe that prediction came true or not—many new PCs come with AI-accelerating neural processing units (NPUs) onboard, but far from all of them—you can’t deny that Microsoft did try very hard to make it ..
