For many people, coding is about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those precise actions repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s now possible for someone to describe a program in English and have the AI model translate it into working code without ever understanding how the…
Microsoft is planning a string of new AI agents to automate mundane tasks and improve worker productivity. The company on Wednesday announced two AI-based sales agents that can autonomously follow up on sales leads. The company is also focusing on using agents to automate workflows across other sectors. The sales agents, which are available in Microsoft 365…
Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning “to find things on the Internet.” Soon, Google might just tell you what’s on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see more…
Brother laser printers are popular recommendations for people seeking a printer with none of the nonsense. By nonsense, we mean printers suddenly bricking features, like scanning or printing, if users install third-party cartridges. Some printer firms outright block third-party toner and ink, despite customer blowback and lawsuits. Brother’s laser printers have historically worked fine with…
Even if they come with a performance hit, new upscaling algorithms can still improve performance by making the lower-resolution presets look better. We run all of our testing in “Quality” mode, which generally renders at two-thirds of native resolution and scales up. But if FSR 4 running in Balanced or Performance mode looks the same…
In his address to Congress last night, President Donald J. Trump called the CHIPS Act “horrible,” and said whatever money hasn’t been spent should now be used to reduce the national debt. The CHIPS Act, enacted into law in 2022 under then-President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is aimed at increasing semiconductor manufacturing and development in…
No matter if you are a new player or a Victory Crown collector looking to continue a win streak, very few things in Fortnite will be as game-changing as getting your hands on a Legendary item early on. But where exactly can you find them? Here’s how to find (and a few guaranteed ways to…
Apple’s spring season product launches continues. The company today followed the introduction of its new M4 iPad Air with two additional releases, a MacBook Air with an M4 chip and the latest super-powered upgrades to its most powerful Mac, the Mac Studio. The new Macs come with faster variants of Apple’s existing Apple Silicon processors, including the M4…
And while an “M4 Ultra” has appeared in some rumors about the next-gen Mac Studio update, that processor’s core counts match up with what Apple announced as the M3 Ultra today. Makeup of the M3 Ultra The M3 Ultra is a pair of M3 Max chips joined together with a silicon interposer, an arrangement similar…
The M3 Ultra has up to 32 CPU cores (24 P-cores, 8 E-cores), up to 80 GPU cores, and a 32-core Neural Engine, which is still a big bump over the M4 Max despite the slightly older chip design. The $3,999 base model starts with 28 CPU cores (20 P-cores, 8 E-cores) and 60 GPU…