75% of adults don’t know how to recycle electronics — here are the 3 best ways to responsibly dispose of tech

[ad_1] It seems that the e-waste issue is more widespread and harmful than we thought — even bigger than Windows 10's end of service — as several reports showcase the issue on a greater scope. A new study from CNET found that a staggering 75% of adults either don't have a plan in place for…

Byallisa.james@futurenet.com (Allisa James)April 15, 20240Comments

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Top AI researcher says AI will end humanity and we should stop developing it now — but don’t worry, Elon Musk disagrees

[ad_1] Here’s something cheery to consider the next time you use an AI tool. Most people involved in artificial intelligence think it could end humanity. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the odds of it happening vary wildly depending on who you listen to. p(doom) is the "probability of doom" or…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)April 7, 20240Comments

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Don’t be a fool: buy the Apple Watch 9 for an incredible price of just $299 at Amazon

[ad_1] The Series 9 is Apple's latest and greatest smartwatch, and Amazon just dropped the price to $299 (it was $399) - an incredible deal. That's a $100 discount and the lowest price we've ever seen, beating Black Friday's offer by $30. You could say you'd be a fool not to buy it. •…

ByTeam TeachTodayApril 1, 20240Comments

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Popular SSD vendor uses clever trick to make slower, less durable flash components perform much better — but don’t expect miracles

[ad_1] Although QLC NAND is capable of storing substantial amounts of data, it falls behind in performance when compared to other NAND types. Because it’s denser (housing four bits per cell) than TLC (which accommodates three), it’s typically slower and less robust. Western Digital has employed a smart method to improve the performance and…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)March 24, 20240Comments

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Apple iPhone is not a monopoly – and you really don’t want the US Government to win its antitrust suit

[ad_1] Apple's iPhone business is not a monopoly. It's not even close to one, and it's almost comical that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to build a shaky case around how Apple manages its software and third-party product integration. First, there's the obvious argument: iPhone has just 57% of the US…

Bylance.ulanoff@futurenet.com (Lance Ulanoff)March 22, 20240Comments

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Nvidia CEO says don’t give up learning new skills — just maybe leave programming to AI

[ad_1] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has clarified comments he made about the supposed "death of coding". Huang had been criticized in the past for saying on several occasions that as AI platforms would soon be doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to coding, young people today should not necessarily consider…

ByTeam TeachTodayMarch 21, 20240Comments

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Older Nvidia GPUs could get faster frame rates with this unofficial tweak – but we don’t recommend it

[ad_1] Nvidia GTX 16 and RTX 20 series GPUs can get a bit of a performance boost thanks to a new mod that brings the Resizable BAR (or ReBAR) feature to these graphics cards. A quick refresher: ReBAR first came to light at the turn of the decade as AMD’s Smart Access Memory feature,…

ByTeam TeachTodayMarch 12, 20240Comments

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Samsung finally launches its very first 1TB microSD card — but it hasn’t gone on sale yet, so make sure you don’t buy fake Evo Plus cards

[ad_1] Samsung says it has started mass production on its EVO Plus UHS-1, the company’s first 1TB microSD card. It’s based on the latest V-NAND technology, and the South Korean tech giant says the card will meet the memory requirements of tomorrow's mobile computing and on-device AI applications. The 1TB microSD card is a significant…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)March 2, 20240Comments

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Forget photo manipulation and art – generative AI’s real potential is helping us with things we don’t know and can’t see

[ad_1] You couldn’t swing a virtual cat without hitting an MWC 2024 exhibitor going on about generative AI; from Samsung and Google touting AI-powered photo editing and searching, to Qualcomm wanting to put AI in cars and Humane making AI wearable. Sure, a lot of the tech on display was cool, but I don’t think…

ByTeam TeachTodayMarch 2, 20240Comments

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China’s CPU rival to Intel and AMD is rapidly catching up on a key metric — but don’t expect it to be competitive with Ryzens and Cores anytime soon

[ad_1] You might not be too familiar with Loongson, but it has been developing computer processors since 2000, and in China the company is widely viewed as the grandfather of domestic CPUs. The launch of Loongson 1 in 2002 was China's first independently developed general-purpose CPU, using the MIPS III instruction set. in 2020…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)February 24, 20240Comments