What you need to know Microsoft Rewards recently halted daily point earnings for using Microsoft Edge, barely a week after killing the Xbox Rewards app. A new report indicates that Microsoft has made major adjustments to how it awards points, dropping points for “other activities” from 10 to 2. Microsoft issued a statement indicating that […]
Read MoreApple today previewed iOS 17 for the iPhone, and one of the key new features coming with the update is improved autocorrect functionality. Apple says iOS 17 includes a state-of-the-art language model for word prediction that will greatly improve autocorrection on the iPhone. Any time you type, on-device machine learning will intelligently correct mistakes with […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know DirectStorage 1.1 will come to Windows PCs later this year. The update adds support for GPU decompression, which shifts the workload of decompressing files from a system’s CPU to its GPU. GPU decompression should dramatically reduce load times within supported games. Microsoft will soon release support for DirectStorage 1.1 on […]
Read MoreThe pace of Apple’s acquisitions has “dramatically” slowed over the past two years, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. Regulatory filings show that Apple spent $33 million on payments related to acquisitions during the last fiscal year and $169 million in the first nine months of the current fiscal year. This is down from $1.5 billion in […]
Read MoreDesktop PC processor shipments fell 30% in Q1 2022, according to Mercury Research’s Dean McCarron (via Tom’s Hardware). That dip marks the largest decline in a single quarter in history. Across the board, all x86 processor shipments dipped in the quarter except for the IoT/SoC segments. The drop was due, at least in part, to […]
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