RAMageddon made the Apple MacBook Air more expensive. Now, it’s making it harder to buy. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the global memory chip shortage is affecting supplies of the MacBook Air, Apple’s bestselling mid-range laptop. This comes roughly five weeks after Apple raised the MacBook Air’s price by $200 because of the same circumstances….
This type of QD-OLED arranges pixels in a way that’s different from LCD, which can cause issues when viewing small text. You may notice “color fringing” visible as an odd burst of green or purple filling the negative space between letters. The AW2726DM just isn’t a sharp display, and it’s not great for viewing small…
For the last few hours, several people across social media have reported that their WhatsApp accounts have been blocked and put “under review” by Meta. The company, in response to TechCrunch’s inquiries about the matter, said that it is working on restoring access to these accounts. According to posts from those impacted on X and…
Microsoft shares rose 15.5% on July 30, while Meta fell 8%, giving investors two sharply different ways to assess Big Tech’s AI infrastructure boom. Microsoft paired heavy spending with faster Azure growth, rising Copilot adoption and a larger commercial backlog. Meta’s advertising business grew strongly, but expenses climbed and free cash flow dropped. Microsoft is…
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Dean met Nicole on Bumble in 2018, and they immediately bonded over their shared Chicago upbringing. Nicole had kids, and they talked often about “wanting more than what we saw growing up in the environment we did,” Dean, a 37-year-old independent contractor, tells WIRED. They also both considered themselves more spiritual than religious, and were…
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The San Francisco-based firm drew backing from returning investors NightDragon and NEA. The funding arrives as two major AI research labs disclosed last week that their models had breached systems outside their…
House of the Dragon Season 3, episode 7 was a bit of a rollercoaster for the dragon fans out there. On the one hand we had that nasty dragon scrap that left Sheepstealer looking much the worse for wear, while on the other we had the triumphant return from Sunfyre, who came back from the…
Mowers I Am Currently Testing I am testing the Sunseeker X7 Gen 2 next, and then the Eufy C15 and a Roborock mower. One of my colleagues is currently testing a Navimow. Other Robot Mowers I Tested and Liked With a sleek design and a mixture of 360-degree lidar for 3D mapping and a camera…
It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help them. “AI, paradoxically, increases the demand for professional services,” says Efrat Rapoport, a former…
