Category: Hardware

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When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It’s a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a mistake, we ask them to explain. But with AI models, this approach rarely works, and the urge to ask reveals a fundamental…

In the wake of its big antitrust loss, Google could soon find itself forced to sell one of its crown jewels. Among the government’s proposed remedies in the search case is a requirement that Google divest its market-leading Chrome browser, and Perplexity is already throwing its proverbial hat into the ring with a whopping $34.5…

Finding a dependable power bank can be a game-changer for your travels around campus, and the Anker Laptop Power Bank delivers serious muscle at a great price for back-to-school shoppers. Right now on Amazon, Prime members can grab it for $110 down from its original price of $135, while non-Prime customers pay $120, still a…

As a federal antitrust investigation into Google’s Chrome browser wraps up, rivals are striking: Perplexity has launched an unsolicited bid to buy Chrome for a whopping $34.5 billion, according to reports. Bloomberg reported the proposed deal, confirmed by a Perplexity representative, as did The Wall Street Journal. But there’s a hitch: Perplexity doesn’t have $34.5…

Swipe to scroll horizontally Graphics Card GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090D GeForce RTX 5090D V2 Architecture GB202 GB202 GB202 Process Technology TSMC 4N TSMC 4N TSMC 4N Transistors (Billion) 92.2 92.2 92.2 Die size (mm²) 750 750 750 SMs 170 170 170 GPU Shaders 21,760 21,760 21,760 Tensor Cores 680 680 680 Ray Tracing…

Smart entry locks are the biggest improvement to home security since the lock-and-key system was invented more than a thousand years ago. In many cases, smart locks dispense with physical keys altogether in favor of PINs, fingerprints, NFC tags, smartphone apps–even your smartphone or smart watch. And with some of the latest models, you can…

Microsoft OneNote has been one of the most popular note-taking apps for many years now, but it’s been missing one important quality-of-life feature—a feature that, according to Microsoft, was “highly requested by many.” Fortunately, it’s finally here! Normally, when you paste content into OneNote, it keeps all of the formatting that it had from wherever…

If you’ve ever had a Pap smear, you know how uncomfortable a cervical cancer screening can be, especially from inside a cold, clinical doctor’s office.  Cervical cancer is highly preventable with routine screening. To provide people with a cervix a comfortable and private screening option, women’s health company Teal Health developed the Teal Wand, the first…