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Over the past year, I have dabbled in Bluesky, Threads, and T2, which became Pebble, which then died. I also joined Mastodon, which is more of a decentralized social network. None of them have achieved anything resembling the level of vibrancy of Twitter before it was nuked.Although your mileage may vary, I've found that Facebook and LinkedIn seem to have maintained a bit more of an interactive community, especially within individual Facebook groups. But neither of these seems to have the immediacy and global…

Nvidia Nvidia’s latest announcement is one that many of us have been waiting for. The company is releasing a new software solution that will, hopefully, one day replace the Nvidia Control Panel and GeForce Experience. Dubbed simply “Nvidia App,” the software is now in beta and is available for testing. Those of us who own some of Nvidia’s top GPUs (or even some of the worst ones) are forced to use the Nvidia Control Panel for tuning things like display settings, game performance, and monitor refresh rates. Meanwhile,…

Nvidia’s desktop software situation has felt disjointed for a while. There’s the Nvidia Control Panel that controls many basic display settings, but is separate from the GeForce Experience that requires an Nvidia account to download driver updates and automatically optimize game settings for performance targets.Starting today, all of that changes with the brand-new Nvidia app, which merges the Control Panel and GeForce Experience into one, along with connections to other Nvidia apps and features. The user interface looks…

Amazon.com Inc. is being added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, joining Apple, Walt Disney, Walmart and other companies that make up the 30-stock average. The ecommerce giant will replace drugstore operator Walgreens Boots Alliance in the Dow before the open of trading on Monday, S&P Dow Jones Indices said Tuesday.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in…

New York’s third congressional district has elected a replacement for serial liar and indicted former Congressman George Santos.  Democrat Tom Suozzi won the New York race to succeed Santos, beating Republican Mazi Pilip, the Associated Press reported. Santos, who was expelled from the House of Representatives in December, is one of several Republican departures in the lower chamber that shrunk the GOP’s already slim majority to only seven votes. Suozzi’s win narrows the GOP’s House majority. In May of…

Anyone hoping California Gov. Gavin Newsom or some other Democrat will take Joe Biden’s place on the 2024 presidential ballot is likely to be disappointed.Despite renewed anxiety over the president’s age, party officials and pollsters say swapping him out is a bad idea, and nearly impossible without Biden’s sign-off.“No one who’s done this at this level thinks that removing the sitting president of the United States, who’s a Democrat, from your ballot is remotely plausible,” said Cornell Belcher, one of former President…

First, Google Gemini snuffed out Bard, and it appears that it now has Assistant in its sights. At this point, we’re all wondering when Google will replace the Google Assistant with Gemini. Well, it appears that Gemini is taking one step closer to doing so, as you no longer have to press the Send button when you use it as a voice assistant. Currently, you’re able to use Gemini as a voice assistant of sorts on your phone- this is handled through the Gemini app. You’re able to use the diagonal swipe-up gesture to summon it…

With all of the focus being on Apple Vision Pro in recent months, not to mention the arrival of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro handsets, it's been easy to almost forget that Apple has an entire tablet lineup on sale. The lack of any new iPads throughout the entire 2023 calendar year — a first for Apple — hasn't helped matters, either. The company is now reportedly ready to refocus its energy on its various tablets with new hardware on the horizon. But part of the work Apple is doing will reportedly involve software…

A protein transition can free up land to tap vast energy and negative emission potentials. Credit: One Earth/Rueda et al. Researchers report that replacing 50% of animal products with alternative proteins by 2050 could free up enough agricultural land to generate renewable energy equivalent in volume to today's coal-generated power while simultaneously removing substantial CO2 from the atmosphere. …

Picture the scene. It’s 14 years on from the release of DreamWorks’ Megamind, which might’ve been overshadowed by the similarly themed Despicable Me at the time but has gone to become a passionate cult favorite, and the trailer for the long-awaited sequel has finally arrived. Megamind mega-fans the world over excitedly click play only for their faces to fall within seconds. Why? Because Will Ferrell is nowhere to be heard. Yes, in what is surely the biggest atrocity to hit Metrocity in this franchise, Will Ferrell is…