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Social networks in 2024: bless this mess

By: The Verge

If you had to pick a social network winner, it’s probably Threads. Two years ago, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and announced his intention to ruin it forever, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw an opportunity to build a text-first social network. Now, barely 18 months after its launch, Threads has more than 300 million users… Read more

This Z-Wave smart plug can work over a mile from your house

By: The Verge

European smart device manufacturer Shelly is launching 11 automation devices that can connect to the home from over a mile away. Shelly says its new and updated Wave devices are built around the Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR) specification, and will be available in the US in the first half of 2025. The benefits of… Read more

Hyte Keeb TKL Review: Unique aesthetic and ultra-smooth switches

By: Tom's Hardware

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Hyte Keeb TKL offers an impressive, enthusiast-level typing experience in a very unique package. Pros + Super smooth switches + Great sound-dampening + Unique bubble case aesthetic + Durable double-shot PBT keycaps Cons – Awful keycap legends – Rotary knob feels cheap / flimsy – No per-key RGB Why you can… Read more

Russia plans EUV chipmaking tools that it says will be cheaper and easier to build than ASML’s — country outlines new roadmap to smaller chips

By: Tom's Hardware

Russia has unveiled a roadmap to develop its own lithography machines, aiming to create less costly and complex equipment than ASML’s systems, according to CNews. These machines will use lasers operating at a wavelength of 11.2 nanometers instead of the standard 13.5 nm used by ASML. This wavelength will be incompatible with existing EUV infrastructure and… Read more

Qualcomm says its Oryon CPU cores have 1% or less of Arm’s original technology — cores in Snapdragon X PC chips are almost entirely custom

By: Tom's Hardware

Although Qualcomm’s Oryon general-purpose cores, found inside Snapdragon X processors are based on Arm’s Armv8 instruction set architecture (ISA), they use very little technology developed by Arm. This is according to Gerard Williams III, one of the lead developers behind Oryon and a variety of Apple’s processors, reports Reuters. “One percent or less,” said Williams when… Read more

The quickly disappearing web

By: The Verge

Every few days, I open my inbox to an email from someone asking after an old article of mine that they can’t find. They’re graduate students, activists, teachers setting up their syllabus, researchers, fellow journalists, or simply people with a frequently revisited bookmark, not understanding why a link suddenly goes nowhere. They’re people who searched… Read more

Samsung’s Freestyle projector’s price has plummetted

By: What HIFI?

Samsung’s Freestyle projector drops to £399 thanks to a £300 discount

Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews

By: The Verge

Intel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has already sold out most everywhere, and Intel… Read more

Apple’s App Store is inviting me to ‘search the way you talk’

By: The Verge

I opened the App Store today to find an emulator I’d read about, and a new prompt appeared under the search bar inviting me to “search the way you talk.” I hadn’t seen the prompt before on my iPhone 13 Pro Max, and quite frankly, I had missed the iOS 18.1 update note about it…. Read more

Apple Maps on the web now has Look Around

By: The Verge

Following the beta launch of Apple Maps on the web in July, Apple has now recently added Look Around street-level views for several cities to the site, 9to5Mac reports. You can activate Look Around as you would in the Apple Maps app on devices like the iPhone or iPad by selecting the binoculars icon on… Read more

Grubhub pays $25 million for allegedly tricking customers and lying to drivers

By: The Verge

Grubhub has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that claimed the food delivery service misled customers and drivers while also damaging the reputation of restaurants. The proposed settlement will require Grubhub to make several changes to the platform, such as showing the total delivery cost when customers place an… Read more

Rumours suggest that a new Apple TV 4K might finally arrive next year

By: What HIFI?

It is rumoured to debut with Apple’s home products in 2025

Threads starts testing scheduled posts

By: The Verge

Threads is about to begin testing the ability to schedule posts, according to Instagram’s Adam Mosseri. “Replies cannot be scheduled,” he added, explaining that “we want to balance giving people more control to plan their Threads posts while still encouraging real-time conversation.” Mosseri also makes sure to note that Instagram has been working on this… Read more

Arm vs. Qualcomm trial begins — Arm demands that the patent-infringing Nuvia designs be destroyed

By: Tom's Hardware

(Image credit: Shutterstock) The litigation between Arm and Qualcomm began this week and the companies exchanged the first salvo of shots in the courtroom. As expected, Arm accused Qualcomm of breaching the contract by releasing its Snapdragon X processors for PCs with general-purpose cores designed by Nuvia, while Qualcomm accused Arm of competing with its… Read more

YouTube says that soon, its tech will be able to find AI copies of celebs and creators

By: The Verge

YouTube says that soon, its tech will be able to find AI copies of celebs and creators / YouTube is partnering with CAA to test ways to let celebrities and athletes find AI-generated content using their likeness. By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much… Read more