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Windows’ BitLocker technology protects your data from unauthorized access by encrypting your drive and requiring one or more authentication factors to unlock it. Unfortunately, various tests run by Tom’s Hardware reveal that these encryption and…

Google Play Protect, which is Google Play’s malware system, has been able to spot malicious software in side-loaded applications that are out of bounds of the Google Play Store. To do this, it used rapid-fire techniques in the background such as…

Windows 11, which was released two years ago, currently runs on more than 400 million active devices each month, according to data obtained by Windows Central. That number should rise to 500 million active devices by early 2024. As impressive as…

Snapdragon X is the name of the long-awaited new generation of ARM processors for PC. Qualcomm says the X moniker will henceforth set the PC platforms apart from the other Snapdragon product categories, mainly the chips used with mobile devices.

Large tech companies such as Microsoft and Google are investing heavily in AI-based tools, but the revenue model still escapes them. Generative AI models require lots of power, which is an expensive proposition: computing power and powerful servers…

Raspberry PI CEO, Eben Upton, announced the release of its 5th gen, single-card nanocomputer with ARM processor. The Raspberry Pi 5, which will run you 60 USD for 4GB of RAM or 80 USD for 8GB, comes with new functionalities, more than doubles the…

Panos Panay, in charge of Surface’s hardware line from the very beginning and of Windows development since 2020, suddenly left Microsoft about ten days ago, just before the presentation event for the new Surface products. His role has been filled by…

In an arXiv research paper titled “Language Modeling Is Compression”, researchers used Chinchilla 70b, a large language model (LLM) by Deepmind, to compress images from the ImageNet database without any losses. They compressed images to 43.4% of…