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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: The profits of DRAM and NAND manufacturers have skyrocketed since the AI boom drove up demand for memory. After SK Hynix and Samsung awarded their employees generous bonuses from the windfall,
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A virtual private network encrypts your internet connection and sends it to another server, which could lead to sluggish downloads, laggy games, buffering streams and unstable video calls. But the fastest VPNs should offer you a virtually unnoticeable reduction in connection quality. For each VPN we tested, we ran hundreds
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: South Korea is preparing to offer free generative AI services to its entire population, using the technology to help people handle everyday tasks such as booking medical appointments, finding housing, and
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Nvidia's DLSS 5 has been nothing short of a bubbling cauldron of controversy ever since the next-gen gaming tech was first aired. That initial reception shocked Nvidia as what seemed like a legion of PC gamers took up arms and vowed, well, all sorts of colorful things — most
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As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massage guns, mostly because I’ve
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Last month I sat in a networking lab with AWS VP of Global Network Engineering Matt Rehder and cracked a joke about cage nuts cutting your hands to ribbons. I wasn't prepared for the blank stare I got in response, but I really should have been. Mind you,
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What do you want from a flip phone when it’s closed? A simple interface, perhaps notifications and a widget or two, for handling the basics? Or a fully fledged Android experience shrunk down for the Flip form factor? For years, Samsung has insisted on the former, even as some
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Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely profitable as the industry scaled out. In the last few years, hyperscalers like Amazon and Google have started
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Loading up on storage is an uneasy proposition these days. The reality is, insatiable demand for AI has caused a shortage of key components, and in particular memory and storage chips, and it has impacted the consumer market in a not-so-fun way. That's the bad news. The good
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The iPhone 17 closed the gap between Apple’s entry-level phone and the pricier Pro models last year with long-overdue display upgrades, alongside nifty camera and durability improvements. Apple also made new features like Center Stage (its new selfie camera) and Dual Capture available across the entire lineup, making the
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* Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026 * Mechanical Turk once connected more than 500,000 workers with paid tasks * Workers completed image tagging, transcription, surveys, and other routine assignments Amazon plans to permanently close Mechanical Turk, its long-running platform for outsourcing small tasks to human workers. Launched
