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Day: August 3, 2024
LCD, IPS, OLED, and Quantum Dots: All the Confusing Display Terms, Explained
Shopping for monitors can feel like swimming through alphabet soup. Learn what all these technical acronyms mean before you buy.
Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway sells half its Apple stock
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway cut its Apple holding by around half, to $84.2 billion, according to an SEC filing. While Apple remains the firm’s largest stock holding by far, Buffett had already reduced its stake by 13 percent earlier this year, hinting that he didn’t […]
Are we prepared for ‘Act 2’ of gen AI?
To be sure, the path from gen AI Act 1 to Act 2 will not be a straight one. It will require effort we’ve never seen before.
NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home
Eight weeks after the Starliner spacecraft launched, NASA is still looking for possible answers to its technical issues—including the possibility of SpaceX lending a hand.
Apple has finally started sending out payments from its butterfly keyboard settlement
Payments relating to a class action lawsuit filed in 2018 over Apple’s butterfly MacBook keyboards have reportedly begun to arrive. The settlement website now states that payments for approved claims will go out in August — and sure enough, 9to5Mac’s Michael Burkhardt reports that he […]
Prison Architect 2 is delayed indefinitely
Prison Architect 2, the sequel to the 2015 cult hit, isn’t coming out this year as its creators had planned. The prison construction simulator’s publisher, Paradox Interactive, has announced that its release has been delayed indefinitely. In its post, Paradox has admitted that its internal […]
What to read this weekend: Existential sci-fi, a repair manual for the climate crisis, EC Comics resurrected
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Toward Eternity by Anton Hur Toward Eternity does not waste any time in getting to the drama. The novel by Anton Hur begins in the not-so-far-off future, and opens with a moment of crisis: […]
Insta360 Go 3S Review: Tiny, Fun, and 4K Footage
Insta360’s go-anywhere, wearable action camera hybrid gains smoother, sharper 4K video.
NVIDIA’s Blackwell AI chips have reportedly hit a snag and may arrive months late
NVIDIA has discovered “design flaws” in its upcoming series of AI chips that may push their release back at least three months, The Information reports. The company has reportedly started notifying customers of the delay, including Microsoft. Large orders of the new Blackwell chips were […]