AYKM? Do your jobs better — The US already lags far behind China and Europe, but we’re going too fast, dealers say. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Nov 28, 2023 8:42 pm UTC Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Pity the poor car dealers. After making record profits in the wake of the pandemic and the collapse …
Enlarge / Amazon boxes sit at a United States Postal Service facility in Fairfax, Virginia, on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Getty Images | Bloomberg Amazon packages are overwhelming mail carriers in Minnesota, causing delays of other mail, according to news reports and complaints from a US senator. Amazon packages are being prioritized ahead of non-Amazon …
Cloud Storage Armageddon — Google tells users to not delete local Drive profile data while it investigates. Ron Amadeo – Nov 28, 2023 7:05 pm UTC Did Google Drive lose some people’s data? That’s the question swirling around the Internet right now as Google announces it’s investigating “sync issues” for Google Drive for desktop. On …
Mulling on it ad infinitum — “Unnoticed and eternally active acts of theft and violence” to be fixed soon. Kevin Purdy – Nov 28, 2023 6:07 pm UTC Enlarge / Conscience do cost, as a certain fictional denizen of Baltimore’s East Side once said. Larian Studios One of the best things about playing Baldur’s Gate …
Doing well by doing good — Help yourself to prizes by helping us raise money for good causes. Kyle Orland – Nov 28, 2023 5:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Just some of the prizes you can win in this year’s charity drive sweepstakes. Kyle Orland It’s once again that special time of year when we …
video ahoy — Given GPU and patience, SVD can turn any image into a 2-second video clip. Benj Edwards – Nov 27, 2023 8:28 pm UTC Enlarge / Still examples of images animated using Stable Video Diffusion by Stability AI. Stability AI On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research …
Great bookmarks for long meetings — Playing Warcraft in a browser, using a controller, somehow feels… okay? Kevin Purdy – Nov 27, 2023 7:50 pm UTC Enlarge / DOS_deck is an impressive technical feat, sure. But it’s also a very keen curation of some DOS shareware classics (pun somewhat intended). DOS_deck/Martin Kool Revisiting a classic …
From streaming to working — Amazon Workspaces Thin Client is a Fire TV Cube with different software. Scharon Harding – Nov 27, 2023 7:32 pm UTC Enlarge / A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin …
Damage control — Creators worried advertisers dropping X could hurt revenue-sharing payouts. Ashley Belanger – Nov 27, 2023 7:22 pm UTC The latest advertiser fallout on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, could end up costing Elon Musk’s company much more than the $11 million in revenue that the company previously estimated could be …
The 48-inch LG A2 OLED TV can now be had for cheaper than ever at Best Buy (Image source: LG) The 48-inch LG A2 OLED TV has dropped to its lowest price ever at Best Buy. It features an LG Display-made WOLED panel with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 and Dolby Vision HDR support, …