Lucky you: Amazon just launched a huge St. Patrick’s Day sale – shop the 13 best deals

Lucky you: Amazon just launched a huge St. Patrick's Day sale - shop the 13 best deals
It’s Sunday, March 17, which means it’s St. Patrick’s Day. To celebrate, Amazon just launched a huge sale with deals on TVs, kitchen appliances, vacuums, AirPods, smart home devices, and more. Luckily for you, I’ve gone through Amazon’s sale and... Read more

Anyone can now browse through Apple Vision Pro apps on the web

The best Apple Vision Pro work apps - Microsoft, Zoom, Box, TeamViewer and more
You no longer need an Apple Vision Pro to look at Vision Pro apps, because the visionOS App Store is now available for browsing on the web – just like the equivalent App Stores for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS.... Read more

My favorite MacBook of all time is on sale at Walmart – and I think I’d buy four if I could

My favorite MacBook of all time is on sale at Walmart – and I think I'd buy four if I could
Oh, Walmart, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed. A $699 MacBook Air with the M1 chip is the Big Mac to the Hamburglar, cookies to Cookie Monster, Bonnie to Clyde. It’s the antidote to MacBook Air lust without the... Read more

‘What if the operating system is the problem’: Linux was never created for the cloud — so engineers developed DBOS, a new operating system that is part OS, part database

'What if the operating system is the problem': Linux was never created for the cloud — so engineers developed DBOS, a new operating system that is part OS, part database
Michael Stonebraker has developed several influential database management systems over the years, including Ingres, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB. Matei Zaharia is the creator of Apache Spark and co-founder and CTO of Databricks.  Working with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of... Read more

Windows 11 update is reportedly causing some PCs to crash or run very sluggishly

Windows 11 hack keeps your PC alive (sort of) after a Blue Screen of Death crash
Windows 11’s cumulative update for this month is causing serious problems in some reported cases. This is KB5035853 for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2 which started rolling out earlier this week carrying some useful new features. That includes being able... Read more

Samsung Galaxy S24 Review: Best Compact Phone of the Year?

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I’m a big fan of compact smartphones with powerful internals and cameras. However, it’s very rare to see such phones these days. Cue the Samsung Galaxy S24, which keeps the tradition alive among other similarly sized phones such as the... Read more

Huawei may have used a very clever trick to make hard disks use less power — spin-on-demand disk drives may well compete with tape on performance, but at what cost?

Huawei may have used a very clever trick to make hard disks use less power — spin-on-demand disk drives may well compete with tape on performance, but at what cost?
At MWC 2024, Huawei’s Dr. Peter Zhou took the wraps off a number of new data storage products, including the company’s next-gen 10 Petabyte OceanStor Arctic magneto-electric storage solution. When we reported on it recently, details were incredibility light. We... Read more

‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

'A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center': Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia's GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips
Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding and the lofty aim of revolutionizing the GPU-centric world dominated by Nvidia. Founded by Ljubisa Bajic, Lejla Bajic, and Drago Ignjatovic, all previously from Tenstorrent (the... Read more

Want to store 1PB of data in the cloud? This startup can do it for you for as little as $10,000 a month — Qumulo says it can scale to Exabytes off premise and wants to eradicate tapes once and for all

Want to store 1PB of data in the cloud? This startup can do it for you for as little as $10,000 a month — Qumulo says it can scale to Exabytes off premise and wants to eradicate tapes once and for all
Qumulo has launched Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), which it claims is the first truly cloud-native, fully managed SaaS solution for storing and retrieving infrequently accessed “cold” file data. Fully POSIX-compliant and positioned as an on-premises alternative to tape... Read more

Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, March 17 (game #783)

It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, more than... Read more