reader comments 158 Few ’90s tech sites other than Ars Technica are still operating here in 2024, and today, there’s one fewer. AnandTech, a staple of CPU and GPU news and reviews since 1997, will stop publishing today, according to an announcement from Editor-in-Chief Ryan Smith. “For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of ..
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Enlarge / “You’ll never be bored again” is one of the more fitting slogans attached to Tumblr. Getty Images reader comments 30 Once-great social media and blogging platform Tumblr has gone through a number of big changes in recent years, and another one is right around the corner. Parent company Automattic says it is migrating ..
Enlarge / Generative AI Alexa asked to make a taco poem. reader comments 29 The previously announced generative AI version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant “will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models,” Reuters reported today. This comes after challenges with using proprietary models, according to the publication, which cited five anonymous people ..
Enlarge / It’s hard to fit the perfomance-minded but pricey ROG Ally X into a simple product category. It’s also tricky to fit it into a photo, at the right angle, while it’s in your hands. Kevin Purdy reader comments 59 The first ROG Ally from Asus, a $700 Windows-based handheld gaming PC, performed better ..
reader comments 107 The Hatch Restore 2 with one of its lighting options on. Scharon Harding The time is visible here, but you can disable that. Scharon Harding Here’s the clock with a light on in the dark. Scharon Harding A closer look. Scharon Harding The clock’s backside. Scharon Harding To say “I’m not a ..
Enlarge / The Broadcom SoC used in the original 4GB and 8GB Raspberry Pi 5. The 2GB version uses an updated revision with several small but significant benefits. Raspberry Pi reader comments 5 When Raspberry Pi introduced a new 2GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 board earlier this month, CEO Eben Upton said that ..
Responding to this meme image of a wizard with an orb from the I.C.E. book Middle-earth: Valar and Maiar, Midjourney’s founder joked that the new hardware form factor might be an orb. reader comments 19 Midjourney, a company best known for its robust AI image-generation tool, has publicly announced that it’s “getting into hardware” and ..
The ESPN app on an iPhone 11 Pro. reader comments 32 Too often, new tech product or service launches seem like solutions in search of a problem, but not this one: ESPN is launching software that lets you figure out just where you can watch the specific game you want to see amid an overcomplicated ..
Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? Getty Images reader comments 41 Microsoft has donated the Mono Project, an open-source framework that brought its .NET platform to non-Windows systems, to the Wine community. WineHQ will be the steward of the Mono ..
Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 12 Among AMD’s explanations for the somewhat underwhelming Ryzen 9000 performance reports from reviewers earlier this month: that the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update would bring some improvements to the CPU scheduler that would boost the performance of the new CPUs and their Zen 5-based ..
