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I only keep 10 third-party apps on my iPhone

When I wrote about the 14 apps that I’ll always keep on my iPhone’s Home Screen, our editor Zach Epstein practically lost it that none of them were third-party apps. Yes, I am that person who rocks only built-in iPhone apps from Apple on the Home Screen.To give Zach some hope that the world isn’t…

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Apple’s answer to Circle to Search might not be ready until next year

As soon as Google unveiled the Circle to Search AI feature for the Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8, I said I wanted something similar on the iPhone. With AI being the main upgrade of iOS 18, I also expect Apple to offer something similar or maybe use Google’s feature.After all, Google said in January that…

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macOS 15 will reportedly revamp the Calculator app for all us nerds

Following the report of a revamped Notes app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users starting with iOS 18, Apple may be planning a big update for the Calculator app in macOS 15.According to AppleInsider, Apple is working on its “Project GreyParrot” with new features and enhancements for the Calculator app, specifically on macOS 15. Besides…

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Maybe Netflix should stop hiking prices since it’s generating ‘very substantial profit’

Netflix’s quarterly earnings report for the three-month period ending in March is in, with an unexpected surprise. No, a Netflix price hike isn’t imminent, though the company said that it doesn’t have a ceiling and it’ll continue to ask for more money from subscribers from time to time. But Netflix did announce that it will…

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AWS & GenAI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Francessca  Vasquez has worked in the IT industry for 25 year in a number of well-known firms including Oracle and Salesforce. In her current role, she looks after professional services and the GenAI innovation centre at AWS. For Vasquez, innovation with technology is about digital disruption. She says: “I’ve really spent my time trying to…

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Are we ready for the era of the ‘sentient’ document?

We now have the technology for documents and digital content to develop levels of interactive responsiveness and competence that will make them appear super-intelligent. The question now becomes, how should we approach and harness this advancement? As deep learning algorithms distil key points with increasing accuracy and present them to users via the medium and…

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AMD’s fiscal results show GPU sales are tanking, and AI PCs are hugely important – here’s what that means for the future of computers

AMD has just revealed its Q1 2024 earnings with some turbulent news on the GPU front – as well as an apparent focus on AI PCs when it comes to the Ryzen CPU side of the equation.The Q1 results for the gaming division saw revenue fall precipitously to $922 million, which is 48% less than…

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MSI goes full Team Green, declaring it’s ‘focused’ on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, with AMD models now vanishing from shelves

MSI is focusing pretty much on Nvidia’s graphics cards, it would seem, and has more or less stopped making AMD GPUs.Or at least the amount of MSI’s Radeon graphics cards on shelves has dwindled considerably, to the point where it’s been noticed by several sources – one of which contacted MSI and got an official…

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Broken and GPU-less RTX 4090s are being sold secondhand by scammers

If you’re considering buying a used high-end graphics card then you’ll need to be extra diligent as scammers are now selling stripped-out Nvidia RTX 4090s without their AD102 die. A new video by Northwestrepair via YouTube highlights the extent of the issue as some less-than-savory individuals have taken to secondary reseller outlets such as Facebook Marketplace…

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DWP anti-fraud measures will allow monitoring of bank accounts of landlords, carers and parents

Proposed anti-fraud powers will allow the Department of Work and Pensions to monitor the bank accounts of landlords, parents, carers and partners of people receiving state benefits including the state pension. The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPIB), currently going through Parliament, gives the DWP powers to monitor all bank accounts that are “connected”…

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