Steve should have known that civil engineering was not for him when he spent most of his time at university monkeying with his 8086 clone PC. Although he graduated, a lifelong obsession of wanting the Solitaire win animation to go faster had begun. Always seeking a gadget fix, he dabbles in photography, video, 3D animation and is a licensed private pilot. He followed l'amour de sa vie from Vancouver, BC, to France and now lives in Paris.
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip is a notch below its flagship processor
If you're not interested in a midrange smartphone but don't want to pay flagship prices either, Qualcomm has a possible solution.
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Hertz CEO steps down following Tesla EV purchase debacle
Following a disastrous misadventure with EVs, Hertz's CEO Stephen Scherr is stepping down.
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Black Mirror will get six new episodes in 2025
Black Mirror, the series that eerily foreshadowed our current tech dystopia, is set to return in 2025 for a seventh season.
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Epic accuses Apple of flouting court order by charging for external links on iOS apps
Epic Games has already accused Apple of "malicious compliance" with the EU's new competition laws, and now it's making the same allegation stateside.
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Neil Young is returning to Spotify after boycotting it over Joe Rogan's vaccine comments
Neil Young is back on Spotify after boycotting the platform over two years ago.
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Now it's NVIDIA being sued over AI copyright infringement
It's getting hard to keep up with copyright lawsuits against generative AI, as yet another has hit the courts.
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Ray-Ban's Meta sunglasses can now identify and describe landmarks
AI-powered visual search features arrived to Ray-Ban's Meta sunglasses last year, and a new one in the latest beta looks quite useful.
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Oppenheimer ruled 2024 Oscars as Apple TV+ and Netflix were nearly shut out
Despite combining for 32 nominations, Netflix and Apple TV+ were nearly shut out of of the 2024 Oscars, with Netflix winning a single award.
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Rivian is halting construction of its $5 billion Georgia plant to save money
Rivian announced that it's halting production of its $5 billion Georgia plant in order to save money.
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Leica's SL3 mirrorless camera offers a 60-megapixel sensor and 8K video
Leica has launched the SL3, a 60-MP model that looks nothing like its famous rangefinder cameras, offering a new phase-detect autofocus system, 8K video capability and more.
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Sony A6700 review: The company’s best APS-C camera yet
Sony's flagship A6700 finally arrived last year with a feature list that's worth the wait.
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Google is following Apple's lead by adding new developer fees in the EU
Google has revealed that it will indeed charge developers even if they don't use the Play Store, just like Apple did with the App Store.
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Colorware takes you back to grade school with the Apple Number 2 Pencil
Colorware has painted a lot of items over the years going back to the iPhone 3G and beyond, but its latest product is particularly clever.
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TikTok to creators: make longer videos, get paid
TikTok is rolling out the Creator Rewards Program that only pays for videos longer than one minute.
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Anthropic says its new Claude 3 AI chatbot scores better on key benchmarks than GPT-4
Anthropic, formed by several ex-OpenAI employees, claims its new Claude 3 language model outperforms ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in several key benchmarks.
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Ford EV owners can now use Tesla Superchargers in the US and Canada
Ford EVs will gain access to Tesla's Superchargers across the US and Canada starting today, becoming the first non-Tesla vehicles to do so.
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More news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement
Legal claims are starting to pile up against Microsoft and OpenAI, as three more news sites have sued the firms over copyright infringement.
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LG's latest OLED evo TVs start at $1,500 and go up to a sky-high $25,000
LG unveiled its 2024 OLED evo TVs in January at CES 2024 promising extra brightness and other features, and we're now learning the prices for its best models.
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Amazon accused of using AI to 'replicate the voices' of actors in Road House remake
Amazon is being sued by the writer of the original 1989 Patrick Swayze version of the film Road House over alleged copyright infringement in the movie's remake.
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AMD's budget version of the 7900 XT GPU is coming to the US for $549
AMD will start selling the Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) graphics card in the US, offering users a detuned version of its 7900 XT flagship for $549.