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The year is 1998. You clutch your Game Boy Color, focusing on your fourth run of the Elite Four in Pokemon Blue, back propped against the couch while your parents watch the season four finale of Frasier on the 32-inch “big-screen” CRT TV in your living room. It is a canon event, crystalized in your memory, as you beat your creature-catch

The London-based British Linux distributor Canonical has just released Ubuntu 23.10 (“Mantic Minotaur”), the latest version of its

Gamers often want to keep an eye on their computer’s resources. But it’s also practical when working with performance-hungry programs, such as graphics applications or video editing, to see immediately whether the working memory is sufficient and how the CPU is being used. Windows offers a corresponding display for this purpose, but you’ll need to k

Qualcomm has long been understood to have an exclusivity agreement to supply Arm processors to the Windows PC market. A new report suggests that both Nvidia and, surprisingly, AMD, are prepared to jump in when that exclusivity agreement ends.

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While companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are all-in on the power of next-generation machine learning algorithms, some regulators are dreading what it might mean for our already-stressed communication networks. The chairwoman of the US Federal Communications Commission, for one, who’s just proposed an investigation into what “AI” could mean for even

One of the ways that advertisers build a profile of you is based on your location—that is, your IP address. Whenever you visit a website or a service, it’s part of the information passed along when you connect. But now Google wants to change how IP addresses are shared by Chrome, in order to better protect user privacy.

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With all the data we create on a daily basis, we all need more storage than what our devices can provide. That’s why

You probably already know that 5G is a widely used abbreviation for a version of mobile network standards. (Also, that it’s the most current standard in use.) That “G” slapped next to the number means “generation.” It’s not a reference to the download or upload speeds you get on your cell phone.

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Clicking on a Google ad can be like gambling, except that there are no winners in the game. Land on a legitimate website, and you’ve fed the algorithm info about what ads to keep serving you. End up on a malicious webpage, and well, you may have exposed your PC to danger…especially if you downloaded software from the phony site.

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