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Windows 11 preview build 23486 expands the operating system's support for biometric logins. Beta testers should now be able to log in to websites and apps supporting FIDO passkeys using their face, fingerprints, and PINs through Windows Hello or authenticated mobile devices. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99239-windows-11-preview-adds-biometric-logins-apps-websites.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The ability to recover and recycle almost the entire amount of water taken from Earth is an important milestone for NASA, and one that could solve at least one concern that astronauts have when it comes to taking longer trips to space. The new development means that those on the... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99230-nasa-astronauts-iss-turning-98-their-sweat-urine.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Cybertruck appeared at the Petersen Automotive Museum's inaugural Electrified Cars & Coffee meet, shown off by Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen. Twitter users have been uploading clips of the event (via Insider), giving us a closer look at the electric truck. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99217-new-cybertruck-videos-show-off-slew-features.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The announcement kicked off the Biden administration's three-week "Investing in America" campaign, in which the President, Vice President Kamala Harris, various Cabinet members, and other senior officials will explain to the people how the allocated funds will be used to improve infrastructure in the country. Alongside high-speed internet, the bill... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99215-white-house-announces-over-42-billion-expand-high.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In an exclusive report, Axios claims Amazon will start recruiting existing business in roughly half of the country's states on Monday including Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, and Washington to participate. Dense cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, and New York will be among... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99196-amazon-lean-local-businesses-last-mile-delivery.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In 2021, Jose "Chanel" Teran of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Webster Batista Fernandez of Doral, Florida, were accused of stealing royalties from YouTube by claiming to own the rights to over 50,000 unmonetized Spanish-language songs and uploading them to the platform. In some instances, forged notes from the artists in question... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99189-man-who-stole-more-than-23-million-youtube.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

We can finally present to you the results of our extensive AMD B650 motherboard roundup. It's been a massive undertaking that took several months to test 35 boards in total, but it's finally complete. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/review/2699-amd-b650-motherboards/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Exclusivity has been the most prominent sticking point of the opposition from Sony and the FTC against Microsoft's $69 billion attempt to purchase Activision Blizzard. Since Microsoft announced the deal in January 2022, it and Sony have jostled back and forth between Sony's claims that its competitor would degrade or... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99184-here-biggest-revelations-microsoft-vs-ftc-hearing.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Fick said that China executed a deliberate strategy of IP theft and government subsidies decades ago after noticing the global advantage in telecoms that big companies gave democratic nations. China, of course, denies any wrongdoing. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99176-us-urges-global-coalition-against-china-tech-cybertheft.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

After recently doing the same in Europe, Google has now publicly accused Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior over the US cloud market. Mountain View singled out Microsoft in a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which was seeking industry comments about the business practices of cloud computing providers that... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99165-monopolistic-company-google-accuses-microsoft-monopolistic-behaviour.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Raytheon Technologies announced on Monday that it is rebranding to the three-letter RTX - it also has an RTX.com website. This isn't completely unusual as the company's stock has been trading under the RTX ticker since it merged with aerospace manufacturer United Technologies Corp in 2020. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99166-nvidia-could-clash-raytheon-after-defense-giant-rebrands.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The results were just as underwhelming in real-life games, as the card couldn't even hit 30fps at 1080p high settings in Red Dead Redemption 2. At 1440p, it could only notch up an unplayable 8fps. The tests were performed by China-based YouTuber Geekerwan, who got access to not one, but... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99148-nvidia-h100-hopper-gpu-gaming-performance-surpassed-integrated.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The DigiTimes report comes almost a month after SK Hynix announced that its 5th-generation 10nm process, 1bnm, has completed the validation process and is ready to power next-gen DDR5 & HBM3E solutions. The company also revealed that Intel's Xeon Scalable platform has already been certified by the American chipmaker to... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99134-nvidia-eyes-sk-hynix-next-gen-hbm3e-memory.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The report on company pay comes from the Wall Street Journal, which analyzed data collected by MyLogIQ on the median salaries of 278 firms in the S&P 500. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99133-list-best-paying-companies-includes-plenty-tech-giants.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

For a limited time, you can grab a license of Windows 11 Professional for the jaw-dropping price of $29.99. As you probably know, Microsoft has been offering free Windows 11 upgrades for current Windows 10 users, but if you are building a new machine and want a full clean install... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98380-get-full-windows-11-pro-license.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

If you've ever wanted free software to handle dictation or to control your PC using voice commands, look no further than Windows 11 itself. Here's our short guide on Voice Access, Speech Recognition, and Voice Typing. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/guides/2691-windows-voice-guide/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that countries must phase out the burning of coal, oil, and gas. He added that the current policies would lead to average temperatures of 2.8 degrees above pre-industrial times by the end of the century, nearly double the UN's goal of a 1.5-degree rise. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99117-un-chief-fossil-fuels-incompatible-human-survival-world.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Intel will supposedly release its unlocked Raptor Lake Refresh processors in October, with non-K SKUs following suit sometime before the end of the year. According to another leaker, the company will market these as the 14th-gen Core series, meaning that it will keep the iconic "i" branding for another year. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99114-intel-raptor-lake-refresh-processors-land-q4-followed.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an average of 9 GB per month in 2010 to more than 587 GB per month in 2023. The increase marks an eye-watering 6,422% increase in the past 13 years. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99113-fcc-wants-know-why-data-caps-thing-2023.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

With competition at an all-time high, the ongoing rivalry between AMD and Intel has resulted in competitive pricing and performance across the board, which is excellent news for consumers. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/bestof/cpu-2023/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Vision One-Eleven features a monolith-style exterior design bathed in metallic orange, which the company claims is an homage to the iconic C 111. The interior is also a throwback to the C 111, with shiny dual-tone silver and orange upholstery in the cabin. In a statement describing the vehicle's... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99098-mercedes-benz-showcases-one-eleven-concept-electric-roadster.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Valve's latest Steam release unifies the codebase for Desktop, Big Picture Mode, and Steam Deck. The fully refreshed interface improves notifications, in-game overlays, notes and adds the ability to pin windows from the overlay. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4961-steam.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Right now, users can query Bard's chatting AI in the US, UK and many other nations around the world. Europe, however, is an entirely different matter, as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides additional privacy and data protection measures that big tech companies like Google tend to endure rather... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99082-google-wont-launch-bard-ai-europe-privacy-reasons.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In Microsoft's own words, the EFI System Partition (ESP) is required on UEFI systems to boot from a GPT-style partitioned storage drive – UEFI and GPT being two technology advancements designed to supersede obsolete BIOS and MBR standards. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99063-trojanclipper231-crypto-hijacker-infecting-windows-hidden-efi-partition.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Astronomers recently discovered signs that a white dwarf star about 104 lightyears from Earth is slowly crystalizing into a diamond the size of a planet. The finding strengthens existing theories about the ultimate fate of most stars. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99040-astronomers-found-relatively-close-white-dwarf-crystalizing-giant.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The new MacBook Air 15 is debuting today to positive reviews. Its outstanding battery life and excellent performance make this laptop an easy recommendation. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/products/laptops/apple-macbook-air-15-m2.281295/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Ahead of the Starfield showcase yesterday, part of the Summer Game Fest, Bethesda's Todd Howard spoke to IGN about the game's console performance. He confirmed that it will run at 4K on the Xbox Series X and 1440p on the Xbox Series S – there's no PlayStation version - but... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99024-starfield-locked-30-fps-consoles-pc-requirements-revealed.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Marketing a CPU or any advanced processor not named Nvidia is getting much harder. Once upon a time there were two companies making data center CPUs, and marketing was simply "Ours is better than theirs." However, today's landscape includes a dozen companies designing CPUs and a few dozen more developing... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99022-marketing-cpu-multi-polar-world.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

One of electrically-assisted flight's limiting factors is the supporting technologies required to create enough power for sustained flight without incurring massive penalties to weight and mobility. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99021-mit-researchers-developing-new-megawatt-electric-motor-could.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

According to a third-party tracker, Netflix gained more new subscribers in the four days immediately following the start of its password-sharing crackdown in the US than in any similar period since 2019. The numbers will likely signal to the company that it made the right decision and could convince competing... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99017-netflix-sees-massive-subscriber-jump-after-password-sharing.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In a conference call this week, Seagate offered new details on its progress in bringing hard drives exceeding 30TB to the enterprise and consumer markets late this year. The first publicly-available drive using HAMR technology will hold 32TB, and the company plans to gradually raise that capacity soon after. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/99003-seagate-mass-produced-hamr-hard-drives-debut-32tb.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

According to an internal email, Google has updated its hybrid work policy this week. One of the changes is that it will start tracking hybrid employees' office badges to find out if they're coming in on the days they're supposed to – most are expected to be present three days... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98993-google-warns-hybrid-workers-about-attendance-asks-remote.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Carbon Health's AI is nicknamed Carby, and is already integrated into the company's electronic health records (EHR) system used in more than 100 locations for primary healthcare and urgent care clinics managed in the US. Carby works on data recorded during conversations between physicians and their patients, even though it... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98974-healthcare-chain-using-gpt-4-based-ai-tool.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

According to an internal presentation seen by the New York Times, Twitter's US advertising revenue for the five weeks between April 1 and the first week of May was $88 million, down 59% from a year earlier. The platform regularly falls short of its sales projections, sometimes by as much... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98962-twitter-ad-sales-down-59-advertisers-worry-about.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Meow RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 Ti from Colorfire, a sub-brand of Colorful, come in a white color that looks great in matching cases, along with an orange fan in the middle. But the name originates from its cat theme. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98949-cat-themed-rtx-4060-ti4070-cards-bizarre-backstories.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Millions of users around the world rely on Gmail as their primary email service. And it's no mystery that the sheer number of emails sent and received on a daily basis can make keeping a clean, orderly inbox nothing more than a dream. But help is on the way, according... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98937-google-using-machine-learning-models-speed-up-gmail.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Windows Insiders are set to witness the first substantial update to Paint in years this week. The update introduces a dark mode to the app and enhances usability in various other aspects. Much like other Windows built-in applications, Paint's dark mode will be activated based on the user's system setting... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98933-long-awaited-microsoft-paint-refresh-finally-adds-dark.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As exciting as AI tools like ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Microsoft's numerous Co-pilots may be, they all currently face the same restriction: you have to be connected to the Internet to use them. For most people and in most situations that isn't a big problem, but imagine how great it... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98920-hybrid-ai-concept-would-move-ai-generation-cloud.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Towards the end of the year, Realtek expects to release the RTL8922AE wireless card, which will support the latest Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 standards. It will come in two variants – an M.2 2230 add-in card for desktops and notebooks and a 1620 solder-down module for more space-constrained applications. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98908-realtek-unveils-next-gen-networking-solutions-including-wi.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

JioCinema is officially the new world record holder for the most concurrent views to a live event, as the Indian streaming service recorded an impressive 32 million simultaneous viewers for the finale of the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament held on Monday. The streaming event... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98893-indian-service-jiocinema-broke-streaming-world-record-cricket.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger