Late last week, a Reddit user showed off their unique iPhone 17 Pro Max setup, which uses passive PC SSD heatsinks to improve sustained performance stability. The user, u/T-K-Tronix, says their DIY cooling system bumped the Pro Max’s stability score from 69.4% to 90.5%.The iPhone 17 Pro Max has the …
Read More »Amazon Prime Day
A new forecast released today estimates Amazon’s delayed Prime Day sales event will top last year’s by bringing in an estimated nearly $10 billion in worldwide sales when it runs later this month. According to eMarketer, which released its first-ever Prime Day forecast, consumers will continue to spend heavily on …
Read More »Kids And TikTok
Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in US, UK and Spain A new study on kids’ app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube’s dominance, as kids now split their time between Google’s online video platform and other apps, like TikTok, Netflix and …
Read More »DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years of humans trying to organize the web
DMOZ — the Open Directory Project — officially closed today. The move comes three days later than originally planned. It marks the end of an era of humans trying to catalog the entire web. DMOZ was a project designed to organize the web using volunteer human editors and born during …
Read More »Affinity Photo comes to Windows: Nearly all of Photoshop for $40!
Photoshop has never been inexpensive, but historically casual users could simply stick with a version and not spend money on updates. With the advent of Raw processing – that needs to be updated when new cameras are released – and Adobe’s move to a subscription model, many long-time users pushed back and …
Read More »Rio Olympic Golf Course nearly empty
As the Agence France-Presse reports, the Olympic Golf Course, host for men’s and women’s golf for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August, is facing a bevy of issues that could lead to its demise. The Olympic Golf Course, according to the AFP, has an almost entirely unfurnished clubhouse, a …
Read More »Groupon Slides Nearly 30% On Market Jitters Over CEO Change, Weak Q4 Guidance
It’s a bad deal today for Groupon, the company that built a business around daily deals for goods and services and has since expanded into areas like commerce solutions for small businesses. The company’s stock opened at $2.81 after dropping more than 30% in pre-market trading, on the heels of a triple-whammy of news: a CEO …
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