Generative AI continues to be the talk of the town, with May alone having delivered several great surprises from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. You can access ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Google Bard for free almost anywhere in the world on all sorts of devices, including Apple. The iPhone has various ChatGPT and Bard apps. But Siri…
The price of storage media is dirt cheap, and now there is no reason not to pick up a better, faster, the best SSD for your laptop. If you’ve never opened your laptop before, it can seem daunting to reach in and remove a working drive, but fear not. Upgrading an SSD is a quick…
Intel Arc Alchemist graphics cards are Intel’s first real foray into the discrete graphics market, and given the first attempt at competing with AMD and Nvidia, things have been somewhat rocky for the inexpensive GPUs. But a new driver update is helping Intel’s incremental progress towards becoming a major graphics card competitor. The update, available…
ChatGPT is the hottest generative AI product out there, with companies scrambling to take advantage of the trendy new AI tech. Microsoft has direct access to OpenAI’s product thanks to a major investment, and it’s putting the tech into various services of its own. Google is developing Bard, an alternative to ChatGPT that will be…
General Motors plans to phase out both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of a new built-in infotainment system developed with Google for future electric vehicles, reports Reuters. GM’s decision will start in 2024 with the Chevrolet Blazer car and “could help the automaker capture more data on how consumers drive and charge EVs.”…
It looks like Google is ready to turn on the jets for Bard, its ChatGPT competitor. As spotted by The Verge, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was recently on The New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast. During the episode, Pichai was asked about Bard, Google’s competitor to Open AI’s ChatGPT. While the reception for Bard has…
This is a big week for generative AI, as OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT’s next big upgrade, GPT-4. The new AI software supports multimodal input, which means the chatbot can do more than just read text. It can now understand images, which will open the door to additional exciting uses for the bot. However, ChatGPT with GPT-4…
Microsoft has admitted that it has erroneously been offering Windows 11 updates on ineligible devices. The software and devices maker’s newest OS has a long way to go to catch up with Windows 10, so it is keeping the pressure on with promotions, ads, and upgrade offers. However, in its efforts to boost Windows 11…
A new RISC-V concept laptop design is in the works, known as the Balthazar Personal Computing Device. This laptop design is designed from the ground up to be a completely open-source laptop, that is cheap to buy and can be directly upgraded by the user themself. The laptop is not being sold directly by its…
Microsoft’s DirectStorage 1.1, a feature which uses the GPU to speed loading times, has just been tested with comparisons drawn between AMD, Intel and Nvidia graphics cards – with some very interesting results. In short, the feature looks set to seriously supercharge loading times with NVMe SSDs. As Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) reports,…
