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Google's Gemini now allows users to add files when creating their Gems
Google recently introduced Gems, customizable versions of Gemini with specialized knowledge, and have now added the ability for users to upload files to enhance Gem's responses. Read more...
2024-11-13 07:12
Microsoft Teams Public Preview users can now access the new chat and channels experience
Microsoft has redesigned the chat and channels experience in Teams. The new experience is now available for public preview customers. Read more...
2024-11-13 07:02
NVIDIA MLX5 Introducing Data Direct Placement "DDP" In Linux 6.13 For Boosting Bandwidth
The NVIDIA MLX5 driver for NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 network adapters is preparing to introduce a new Data Direct Placement "DDP" feature with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...
2024-11-13 06:55
YouTube is testing an AI music remix feature that lets creators restyle licensed songs
YouTube is testing a new AI feature that will let creators generate a unique 30-second soundtrack to use in their Shorts. Read more...
2024-11-13 06:54
Microsoft announces first Power BI price increase in 10 years
Microsoft is increasing the price of Power BI Pro licenses from $10 to $14 per user per month and PPU licenses from $20 to $24 per user per month, effective April 1, 2025. Read more...
2024-11-13 06:44
Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now On Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS
As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write perform...
2024-11-13 06:38
Google resumes rolling out Wear OS 5 update for Pixel Watch 1 and 2
After halting the update for a month, Google is now bundling the Wear OS 5 OS with a November update for Pixel Watch 1 and 2. Read more...
2024-11-13 06:34
Meta's chatbot is straight up telling mushroom hunters to cook up poison
Meta's latest AI experiment caused chaos in a mushroom foraging group by advising users to cook up a toxic mushroom. Read more...
2024-11-13 06:22
AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS
The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system...
2024-11-13 06:15
xcompmgr 1.1.10 Released For Classic "Eye Candy" Compositor On X.Org
Xcompmgr 1.1.10 was released yesterday as the newest update to this basic X11 compositor providing "eye candy" effects for classic X.Org usage...
2024-11-13 05:28
Apple Vision Pro proves best home theater as 2024 top grossing films arrive in 3D
For many, Apple’s new ultrawide Mac Virtual Display feature in visionOS 2.2 beta is the killer app on Apple Vision Pro. But you don’t need to be a Mac user to appreciate Apple Vision Pro and its role as an incredible mobile movie theater. I’ve be...
2024-11-13 02:27
Apple’s head of accessibility highlights the importance of AI in helping people with disabilities
As reported last week, Apple’s global head of accessibility Sarah Herrlinger spoke this Tuesday at the Web Summit Lisbon 2024. At the event, Herrlinger talked about everything Apple has been doing to make its devices easy to use for anyone and also h...
2024-11-13 02:09
BLUETTI is launching an all-new 2 kWh portable power station for outdoor life
BLUETTI has long been committed to clean and sustainable energy, and is a market leader in green energy storage, both for indoor and outdoors. Today, BLUETTI is launching a new 2 kWh portable power station, breaking through traditional portable energy ...
2024-11-13 01:58
Xbox's Towerborne adds fresh missions, a party finder, and more in major early access update
Towerborne Early Access players on Steam can now find a brand-new, content-packed, update waiting for them. This has a handy party finder, a level cap upgrade, and much more. Read more...
2024-11-12 23:52
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's updated system requirements reveal it needs a lot of RAM and SSD space
GSC Game World has published the final system requirements for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, revealing how it expects the game will run across a wide range of PC hardware. Read more...
2024-11-12 23:24
November Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the produ...
2024-11-12 23:19
Siemens Healthineers manages C++ libraries with vcpkg in an offline build environment
vcpkg is a free and open-source C/C++ package manager maintained by Microsoft and the C++ community that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Over the years we have heard from companies using vcpkg to manage dependencies at enterprise-scale. For this blo...
2024-11-12 23:10
Apple begins selling new Gold Link Bracelet for Apple Watch
When was announced in September, the company also unveiled a new Gold Link Bracelet made of stainless steel. However, while the Natural and Slate versions were available from day one, the gold version was unavailable – but that has just changed. more…
2024-11-12 22:58
Does STALKER 2 have co-op multiplayer and cross-play?
At long last, STALKER 2 is finally almost here. But can you play it co-op, and with people on other platforms?
2024-11-12 22:29