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There are plenty of internet providers in Irving. But based on our research, these are our top picks in the area.
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This meal delivery service offers easy, affordable weekly meals shipped straight to your door.
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Getting the jitters over that mail-in ballot you sent? Take the edge off and track its progress.
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 It's Wednesday, October 23 in Australia and New Zealand, which means that customers who pre-ordered one of the new iPad mini 7 devices are starting to receive their orders.
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 Apple today released a new firmware update for the original AirPods Pro, the AirPods 2, the AirPods 3, and the Lightning version of the AirPods Max headphones. The new firmware is version 6F21, up from the prior 6A326 firmware that these devices were previously running.
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke, actress Julianne Moore and novelist Kazuo Ishiguro joined creatives protesting use of their work to train algorithms without consent.
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PCWorld has independently confirmed an earlier Bloomberg report that Arm is canceling the architectural license agreement, the agreement that allows Qualcomm to manufacture custom cores, like the company's Oryon processor. Qualcomm called the cancellation notice "more unfounded threats" and that it looks forward to a trial in December that is set to resolve the issue.
In the fall of 2022, Arm sued Qualcomm, seeking an injunction that would have forced Qualcomm to destroy the chip designs that a company called Nuvia developed. Qualcomm bought Nuvia in 2021, in a bid to beef up its own Arm-based CPU designs. Arm, in turn, argued that it should have been allowed to approve the deal and cancelled Nuvia's licenses in 2023, according to Bloomberg. Since then, the suit has quietly simmered without any real action or rhetoric by either side, even as the two sides nailed down a court date in December.
Now, the stakes have been raised significantly. Arm designs its own CPU cores, known as Cortex, and licenses them to companies like Qualcomm, Mediatek, and others. That license remains in place. But Qualcomm is entertaining partners, analysts and media at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, where th
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Netflix announced the next addition to its gaming roster, and it's a collaboration with the TED nonprofit. TED Tumblewords is a daily puzzle game where you slide rows of letters around to make words. There will be three puzzles available each day, and you can play rounds against friends, other online players or the TED bot. In addition to the daily word challenges, which are designed to improve critical thinking and vocabulary, players will see interesting facts from the TED library. The game will be available to play on Netflix and TED.com on November 19.
Since it began offering mobile games, Netflix has amassed a lot of high-quality titles in its lineup. The collection is a mix of licensed indie game projects, such as Hades and Kentucky Route Zero, alongside in-house creations centered on its popular shows, like the retro-styled Stranger Things game. However, the streaming service just today shut down its in-house AAA game studio before the team ever released or even announced a single project. While we wait for TED Tumblewords to arrive, here are some other excellent choices for your
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OpenAI and Microsoft are funding projects to bring more AI tools into the newsroom. The duo will give grants of up to $10 million to Chicago Public Media, the Minnesota Star Tribune, Newsday (in Long Island, NY), The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Seattle Times. Each of the publications will hire a two-year AI fellow to develop projects for implementing the technology and improving business sustainability. Three more outlets are expected to receive fellowship grants in a second round.
OpenAI and Microsoft are each contributing $2.5 million in direct funding as well as $2.5 million in software and enterprise credits. The Lenfest Institute of Journalism is collaborating with OpenAI and Microsoft on the project, and announced the news today.
To date, the ties between journalism and AI have mostly ranged from suspicious to litigious. OpenAI and Microsoft have been sued by the Center for Investigative Reporting, The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet. Some publications accused ChatGPT of plagiarizing their articles, and other suits centered on scraping web content for AI model training without permission or compensation. Other media outlets have opted to negotiate;
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Google's latest round of updates seeks to protect Android users from those fake package delivery and job-offer scams, among other problems.
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Whether you're hoping to tap in to the wellness benefits of essential oils or just want to keep your home smelling nice, check out these CNET-approved essential oil diffusers.
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Alcon Entertainment alleges that Musk and Tesla made an AI image for their robotaxi unveiling that's based on "Blade Runner 2049."
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A Canadian research firm called TechInsights took a deep dive on one of Huawei's artificial intelligence accelerators and found a chip manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Bloomberg spoke with several people familiar with the investigation who asked to remain anonymous since TechInsights' report has been released to the public.
The anonymous sources says TechInsights' investigation found an Ascend 910B chip made by TSMC in one of Huawei's AI accelerators. The company that conducted the investigation declined to comment.
The US Commerce Department implemented additional trade restrictions against Huawei that barred the electronics company from obtaining chips made by foreign firms. Earlier this year, the US government tightened its restrictions even further by revoking its licenses with Intel and Qualcomm to produce chips for its devices.
TSMC denied that it had a working relationship with Huawei since mid-September of 2020 in a statement provided to the Commerce Department. TSMC also told Bloomberg that it hasn't produced any chips for Huawei due to the amended restrictions. Huawei denied that it had ever "launched the 910B chip."
This isn't the first time Huawei has been caught trying to subvert US sanctions and trade restrictions. Bloomberg also unco
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Anthropic's latest development gives its Claude AI assistant the ability to control a PC, reportedly just like a person would. The feature, dubbed 'computer use,' entered public beta today. With computer use, Claude can be directed to execute tasks such as "looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text," according to the company's announcement.
This API enables Claude to translate prompts into computer commands. Developers can use it to automate repetitive tasks, conduct testing and QA, and perform open-ended research. pic.twitter.com/eK0UCGEozm
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) October 22, 2024
In theory, this could make the AI even more useful in automating repetitive computer tasks. However, a second blog post focused on computer use acknowledged that this application of Anthropic's AI models is still early in development and, to paraphrase, buggy as heck. The company said that in internal testing, Claude stopped in the middle of an assigned coding task and began opening images of Yellowstone National Park. While that is uncannily human behavior (who doesn't want to take a break to stare at natural beauty during the work day?), it's also a reminder that even the best AI models can have errors.
In addition to unveiling computer use, Anthropic also released an upgraded version of its
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When Elon Musk introduced Tesla's robotaxi, the Cybercab, earlier this month, he showed a slide during his presentation that probably looked familiar to Blade Runner 2049 fans. It featured the back of a person wearing a trench coat against a desert-like landscape with high-rise buildings in the background. Now, a producer behind the movie is suing him for copyright infringement. According to The New York Times, Alcon Entertainment accused him of using "AI-created images mirroring scenes from Blade Runner 2049, including one featuring a Ryan Gosling look-alike." It said that it previously denied a request by Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery to use imagery from the film as part of the Cybercab event. The companies were also named as defendants in the lawsuit.
Alcon called Tesla's use of AI to create images nearly identical to scenes from the movie an "intentionally malicious gambit." It argued that by connecting the product announcement to the movie, the automaker made the event "more attractive to a global audience" and misappropriated "the Blade Runner 2049 brand to help sell Teslas." In its lawsuit, Alcon said that the connection between Musk and its film has a financial impact on the company, even going so far as calling the defendants' actions as a "massive economic theft," because it's currently in talks with other potential automative partners for its upcoming Blade Runner 2099 television series.
"Any prudent brand considering any Tesla partnership has to take Musk's m
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In a presentation to reporters, Qualcomm cited PCWorld's video review, "Did Intel Just Save X86?", as a source for its refutation, including benchmark scores that Qualcomm claimed could only be obtained using samples of Core Ultra Series 200 (Lunar Lake) laptops that were sent to reporters, not sold on the open market.
Qualcomm executives used the video by PCWorld's Gordon Mah Ung as evidence, precisely because he was able to obtain two virtually identical laptops from Dell, with the same capacity, battery, and screen size. The two laptops differed only in their choice of processor, a relative rarity in the laptop world, but one that allowed him to directly compare one chip to the other.
Qualcomm director of engineering Sriram Dixit highlighted something our Lunar Lake print review showed, which he said Intel glossed over: That when a Lunar Lake laptop was tested only on battery, performance plunged.
Dixit briefed reporters slightly before Qualcomm announced its second-generation Snapdragon Oryon core for smartphones, a chip that Qualcomm claimed could outperform a Lunar Lake PC. Qualcomm isn't saying whether the Oryon core will come to PCs, and a company representative declined to c
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Fortunately, we now know that ChatGPT is really just a glorified chatbot and it's far from ready to replace real-world workers, let alone take over the world. Some have even swung the opposite direction, claiming these AI chatbots are novelty gimmicks and basically useless.
I wouldn't go that far, though. In fact, when I tried using ChatGPT in my day-to-day life, I was surprised by how beneficial it was. It's a tool — and like any tool, you have to know how to use it to get any value out of it.
Here are some real things I've done this year using ChatGPT and the various ways it has actually improved my life.
ChatGPT helped me learn how to code
Is ChatGPT itself good at coding? That depends. If you were to ask most programmers if ChatGPT could do their jobs for them, they'd emphasize how far away we are from that reality just yet.
But as a tool for guidance and aid in understanding syntax, concepts, and other programming-related things? It's not bad at all. So while ChatGPT developers have been working on their own obsolescence, I've been using ChatGPT to help me learn to code.
I've wanted to make a game for years, but it wasn't until 2024 that I finally sat down and took steps to make it happen. I'd previously learned BASIC about 30 years ago and I'd dabbled in Python and Flash's ActionScri
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It doesn't matter whether you use the monitor for working, gaming, or just browsing. In the long term, an incorrectly adjusted monitor can damage your eyes or cause headaches. Here's how to avoid the biggest mistakes.
1. Resolution and scaling
First, you should make sure that your monitor is set to the native resolution. This is the highest resolution that your monitor supports and offers the best image quality.
Windows usually recognizes this automatically. However, it is possible that when you switch to a different screen mode such as split screen mode, the resolution may become confused. If this is the case, you can change the screen resolution by right-clicking on your desktop and selecting Display Settings from the menu. You will then find the function you are looking for in the Scale and Layout section.
Tip: If you change the screen resolution, you should always keep the correct picture format. This means 16:9 or 4:3, for example, to prevent the image from appearing distorted.
In the scaling settings, you can also specify how large the applications are displayed on the screen. We recommend 150 percent for better readability. If you have a second monitor, you can also use it in portrait format to make it easi
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 Yesterday we noted that the new iPad mini 7 does not come with a charger in the box when sold in European countries, and it turns out that the same now also applies to entry-level iPads sold by Apple across the continent.
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SlashNext, the leader in next-gen AI cloud email and communications security, is launching Project Phantom, the Zero-Trust Steal Mode Browsers capable of seeing through obfuscation techniques employed by threat actors. With the aim of delivering advanced protection against phishing and malware, Project Phantom uncovers the myriad threats hiding behind the guise of common cybersecurity practices.
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