Tim Sweezy
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Microsoft dropped a fresh pair of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds on June 26th, one each for the Experimental and Beta channels. While neither one is a major departure from previous builds, both carry meaningful refinements for different...
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Anyone holding out hope that memory and SSD prices will eventually drift back to pre-2025 levels probably needs to recalibrate those expectations. At ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, Lenovo delivered a sobering message to industry attendees...
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Microsoft just handed the Windows 10 holdouts a real reprieve. For anyone still riding Windows 10, waving off the TPM 2.0 mandate stitched into Windows 11's hardware checklist, Redmond has laid out a clear way to stay protected past the...
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OpenAI spent years buying other people's silicon, but it just showed off its own chip, and the codename packs a little kick. The company teamed with Broadcom to reveal Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built specifically for inference. Broadcom...
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Qualcomm built its empire on the silicon that keeps many mobile devices humming, so its latest move counts as a real change of scenery. At its Investor Day in New York on June 24, the company laid out a full data center roadmap under a new...
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The battle for AI hardware is heating up, and Qualcomm just launched a direct assault on NVIDIA's dominance. The company has reached a deal to acquire Modular Inc., an AI software infrastructure startup, in an all-stock transaction that is...
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Amazon's Prime Day 2026 has arrived, and for anyone building out a competitive PC setup the timing is worth paying attention. We've pulled together some great deals on gaming mice, headsets, and keyboards that will upgrade a battlestation, while saving some money on brands such as Razer...
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Amazon Prime Day is underway, and there are plenty of deals to build on, or with. LEGO is offering up some great deals that will make the kid in all of us happy.
LEGO Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer
The LEGO Star Wars Imperial Star...
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Midjourney, the company best known for conjuring surreal artwork out of text prompts using AI, is making a hard turn into healthcare with a new division it calls Midjourney Medical. The new division is built around a full-body imaging...
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Sci-fi holodecks and floating 3D projections just took a meaningful step closer to reality. In a study published earlier this month, researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)...
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Anyone in content production knows how much of the day disappears into the preparations around the actual work, sorting media bins, renaming clips, managing layer stacks, and resizing the same asset for every platform it has to run on...
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Teaching robots new tricks has always been a deeply human chore. Someone resets the scene after every failed attempt, babysits the hardware, and judges whether the robot got it right. NVIDIA wants that someone gone. The company has spent...
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Electronic Arts just spelled out its plan to inject real-time ads into the games people play, and it has a name: EA Advertising. The freshly launched platform delivers dynamic, live-updating commercials straight into EA titles, and the...
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SMS spam has evolved far beyond the era of low-effort annoyances, transforming into a massive, industrialized ecosystem. Today, it’s a highly calculated numbers game consisting of fake package notifications, urgent bank alerts, and...
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Apple unveiled its next chapter of Apple Intelligence at WWDC26 and a long-awaited new Siri AI. The polite digital companion that the Cupertino-based company promised to the masses two years ago is finally getting a real brain transplant...
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Bargain hunters scrolling online marketplaces for a cheap phone charger might want to pause before clicking the buy button. A consumer watchdog purchased fifteen USB chargers from seven major online marketplaces and found every single one...
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Anyone who has spent time in streaming circles knows that having a quality mic is essential to a good setup. A USB mic is dead simple. Users plug it in and start talking. Still, veterans of the industry swear by XLR rigs that demand a...
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Apple just unveiled an overhaul of its digital assistant, officially rebranding it as Siri AI. Powered by the next generation of Apple Intelligence, Siri AI isn't just a minor tune-up. Apple says it rebuilt its assistant from the ground...
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Windows Search has been a sore spot for users going on years, and the frustration is easy to explain. At some point, Microsoft decided that searching for a local app or a buried folder was also a great opportunity to serve up Bing...
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Over the past several months, Microsoft and OpenAI quietly restructured the partnership that has helped define the recent AI boom, and the ripple effects will likely affect everyone from enterprise IT managers to casual ChatGPT users. To...
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Anthropic has disclosed that Claude, its own AI model, now writes more than 80% of the code going into the company's internal codebase. The company adds the pace at which it's doing so is accelerating fast enough to raise a genuinely...
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Hot off last month's Google I/O event, Google Labs has a new experiment it wants users to try, and it's a pretty interesting departure from how many normally think about AI assistants. It's called Dreambeans, and despite the name, the idea...
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