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Archives for November 2024

Build your next PC like it’s 1999Build your next PC like it’s 1999
Andrew Liszewski
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Microsoft says it’s fixing a Teams / Microsoft 365 outage.

The Microsoft 365 status reports it’s “started to deploy a fix,” after noting issues overnight affecting Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. Its status page mentioned there have been problems for some while accessing Outlook via the web or desktop, Sharepoint, and Universal Print.

How to watch a babyHow to watch a baby
Kristen Radtke
Google’s empire is under siege

An onslaught of antitrust lawsuits could drastically change what Google looks like and how it operates — even if they don’t succeed.

Emma Roth
Amazon Kindle Colorsoft review: good color is a good start

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Verge Score

The Colorsoft is essentially a Paperwhite with a color screen. It might be worth waiting for a color Kindle Scribe instead.

Andrew Liszewski
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Inside Amazon’s plan to compete with Nvidia’s AI chips.

Bloomberg explores Amazon’s $8 billion partnership with Anthropic that could advance Amazon’s Trainium hardware and software tools enough for the AWS provider to cut into Nvidia’s stranglehold on the $100-billion-plus market for AI chips:

Trainium2 is the company’s third generation of artificial intelligence chip. By industry reckoning, this is a make-or-break moment. Either the third attempt sells in sufficient volume to make the investment worthwhile, or it flops and the company finds a new path.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Threads.com shows something now.

Meta seemed to have bought the domain earlier this year, sometime after it bought the company that owned it prior to the debut of threads.net, where Meta’s Twitter competitor lives.

Previously, visiting the threads.com URL didn’t show anything, but today, it shows... well, an error message. With a “Meta © 2024” and a Facebook logo.

A screenshot showing a message reading, “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can,” with a Facebook logo above it and text attributing copyright to Meta.
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Screenshot: Threads.com