Tech

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon’s forthcoming Prime Day event, many great iPad deals are attainable outside those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often something to be saved, particularly on the more affordable iPads. What’s more, Apple released … Read more

The race is on for better chips and data center capacity to handle AI workloads, but all that activity comes with a catch. Heavy processing power means heat — a lot of it — and that has massive implications, both for how well servers operate and the environment.  With traditional cooling methods like air and … Read more

I never seem to have enough USB ports at hand, so I use UGREEN’s Revodok Max 213 Thunderbolt 4 docking station with my machine, and recently got Elgato’s USB Hub to connect to my Stream Deck+, providing two additional USB-C and two USB-A ports. Over the last two months, I used HiDock’s H1 alongside the … Read more

TL;DR Two college students have put facial recognition technology into the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The demo the students created can pull up personal information such as names, phone numbers, addresses, and family members. The demo shows off the scarier side of smart glasses. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are impressive tech that allows a … Read more

After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down. From a report: In a letter shared via the organization’s website, co-founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee — inventor of the World Wide Web — and Rosemary Leith explain that the organization’s mission has been somewhat … Read more

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has now raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $157 billion, nearly doubling its previous valuation of $86 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The funding round comes with strings attached: Investors have the right to withdraw their money if … Read more

Google today announced an update for the summary card feature in Gmail, which is designed to provide helpful information at the top of incoming emails. Summary cards have a new look for purchases, events, bill, and travel emails, with Google adding new action buttons. With these action buttons, Gmail users can do things like add … Read more

What’s Up: October 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA is back again with its monthly update of celestial delights to enjoy over the coming weeks. The space agency shared its tips in a video (above), which we’ve summarized below. Planets galore! It turns out that October offers a great chance to spy many of the … Read more

We’re still a week away from Prime Big Deal Days. Still, Amazon just can’t help itself. The company is now offering an upgraded line of Fire HD 8 tablets, all with limited-time discounts of 45-50%. The 2024 Fire HD 8 is an incremental upgrade. It’s got the same screen, processor, and battery life as its … Read more

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total of eight intense competitions to inspire creativity and innovation along with 13 forums dedicated to diverse segments of robotics and artificial intelligence will be part of the 36th edition of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and … Read more