When Microsoft introduced its Copilot+ PC initiative, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chipsets were the first to receive Microsoft’s official blessing. They’ve so far proven to be very fast and efficient and give Windows laptops a boost against Apple’s MacBooks. They’re also a bit less expensive than Intel machines, a side benefit that shouldn’t be ignored. The Lenovo IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 is a good example. It’s still a midrange machine coming in between $850 and $1,000, so it’s not inexpensive. But you’ll pay a few hundred dollars more for Intel, in many cases. And the IdeaPad 5x is an attractive laptop in…
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The upcoming Delta Force has all the flair of a Battlefield game, paired with the fun of extraction shooters. Its release is right around the corner, and considering the number of cheaters encountered during the Steam Next Fest demo, developer Team Jade has a stringent anti-cheat system in place. They’ve also made an aggressive but promising vow that all cheaters reported through their website would be handled with 24 hours. The company even established a dedicated task force called G.T.I. Security to help combat anyone using cheats or exploits within the game, according to PCGamesN. These rules include more than…
The theatrical experience isn’t dead yet! Three new releases have combined to lift the box office to its best Black Friday in history, with Moana 2, Wicked, and Gladiator II combining to earn $108 million at the box office. Moana 2 led the way, breaking the record for Black Friday box office hauls with $54.5 million. Disney has now revised their estimate for the movie’s gross over the five-day weekend to between $215 and $220 million, which is where many of the company’s competitors originally believed the movie would land. That haul would represent a record for the most money earned in a…
The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword puzzle still reigns supreme. The daily crossword is full of interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility and, of course, gives you some bragging rights if you manage to finish it every day. While the NYT puzzle might feel like an impossible task some days, solving a crossword is a skill and it takes practice — don’t get discouraged if you can’t get every single word in a puzzle.…
It’s been a few weeks since the OnePlus 13 was officially introduced back in China. It, however, seems that the smartphone maker isn’t quite done yet. An upcoming OnePlus smartphone with the model number CPH2645 and “pineapple” as the motherboard identifier recently visited a benchmarking platform. MySmartPrice was the first to spot the Geekbench visit, and later, Digital Trends came across a total of five benchmark runs carrying the same device signature, all listed on the same date. The benchmark logs, assuming they are accurate, confirm some juicy information about OnePlus’ next budget phone. Now, this isn’t the first time…
As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism—looking at how the AI chatbot produces citations (i.e., sources) for publishers’ content—makes for interesting, or, well, concerning, reading. In a nutshell, the findings suggest publishers remain at the mercy of the generative AI tool’s tendency to invent or otherwise misrepresent information, regardless of whether or not they’re allowing OpenAI to crawl their content. The research, conducted at Columbia Journalism School, examined citations produced by ChatGPT after it was asked to identify the source of sample quotations plucked…
A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has infringed their copyrights and unjustly enriched itself at their expense. The companies behind the lawsuit include the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail, and others who seek to win monetary damages and ban OpenAI from making further use of their work. The news companies said that OpenAI has used content scraped from their websites to train the large language models that power ChatGPT—content that is “the product of immense time, effort, and cost on behalf of…
President-elect Donald Trump made no secret during his campaigning that he doesn’t think the U.S. should take an aggressive stance on climate change. From leading chants of “drill, baby, drill” to frequently criticizing everything from wind turbines to electric vehicles, he appears poised to cast a shadow over the climate tech sector for the next four years. Or will he? Like many of Trump’s positions, it’s hard to pinpoint his exact stance on climate change and technologies that serve to mitigate or adapt to it. What’s more, some of his proposed policies might stand to benefit climate tech broadly, even…
As one of the most decorated track cyclists of all time, Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to back the burgeoning electric bike movement. The common refrain, after all, is that e-bikes aren’t real bikes. However, the six-time Olympic gold medalist has done exactly that, investing in a fledgling U.K. startup that has built a click-on contraption that makes it easier to convert a pushbike to electric and back again with minimal fuss. Skarper, as the company is called, has raised £12.8 million ($16.3 million) since its inception in 2020, with Hoy contributing to an early seed…
Meta’s investments into artificial intelligence stand to boost that usage even further. So to make sure it will have reliable infrastructure to support that business, Meta is taking the pipes into its own hands. TechCrunch has confirmed with sources close to the company that Meta plans to build a new, major fiber-optic subsea cable extending around the world—a 40,000+ kilometer project that could total more than $10 billion of investment. Critically, Meta will be the sole owner and user of this subsea cable—a first for the company and thus representing a milestone for its infrastructure efforts. Sunil Tagare, a subsea…
