Laptop reviews, ransomware song, vampire facials, Amazon Q, S3 bucket, RCS, MPGe, Medieval dog names and Dingonek. It has been a very eventful week for me as I met with clients, met with two interviewers (I’ll post links when they are released) and dealt with an incident in my neighborhood. Meanwhile, there was a lot of news in the tech world that you can find below. Check it all out!
- Read this post on the Graphics Unleashed Web site!
- Read Web Design Solutions Digest for April 30, 2024 on Web Design Solutions Unleashed!
- Lenovo LOQ 15 (15IAX9I) Review
- Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra Review
- Dell XPS 13 and XPS 14 review (2024): Gorgeous laptops with usability quirks
- Finally, a portable Bluetooth speaker that sounds incredible but won’t break the bank
***** Get Sony ULT Field 1 Wireless Ultra Portable Bluetooth Compact Speaker at Amazon ***** - This thumb-sized accessory gave my old PC an instant speed boostSystem sluggish?
***** Get PNY CS3150 1TB PCIe Gen5 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD at Amazon ***** - The work laptop I recommend to most people is not made by Apple or Lenovo
- Asustor AS5402T Review
***** Get Asustor AS5402T 2 Bay NAS Storage at Amazon ***** - Beats Solo 4 Review: Big Performance Upgrades, but Wait for a Sale
- This $299 Galaxy Ring challenger is launching May 15 – and its specs look promising
- Feds Try Breaking Out Into Song to Get People to Take Ransomware Seriously
- New Android Trojan Malware Targets Bank Accounts With Fake Chrome Updates
- Microsoft’s impossible captchas are giving the internet an existential crisis
- Shut Down Web Tracking: How to Switch From Google Chrome to the Brave Browser
- A Lot of People Are Falling for Those ‘Your Package Cannot Be Delivered’ Texts
- FBI to Online Daters: Watch Out for Verification Scams
- Account compromise of “unprecedented scale” uses everyday home devices
- Senators: Car Companies Are Giving Location Data to Police Without a Warrant
- Porcelain Gallbladder Found in Human Remains in Mississippi Asylum Cemetery
- This Houseplant Cleans Air 30 Times Better Than a Typical Plant
- Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa
- Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk
- Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood
- GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a ‘radically new way of building software’
- Meet Amazon Q, the AI assistant that generates apps for you
- IPVanish Review 2024: Great for Beginners, But Privacy-Critical Users Should Avoid
- Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari browser alongside new operating systems
- The excellent and customizable Arc Browser is now fully available on Windows
- The FCC restores net neutrality – here’s what it means for the internet
- After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin
- Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not
- SpaceX Quietly Expands Starlink Sales to Target
- Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back
- How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
- AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300
- Meet the Trash-Eating Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond
- CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239
- Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI
- Apple Intensifies Talks With OpenAI for iPhone Generative AI Features
- RCS on iPhones Will Make Texting Android Users Less Tedious
- 2024 Rivian R1S Review
- How Riding an E-Bike for a Year Saved Me Money and Improved My Life
- Portal Space Systems unveils Supernova, an ultra-mobile spacecraft
- What Is MPGe? The New Fuel Efficiency Rating for Hybrids and EVs, Explained
Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.
- What is Shrinkflation? Everything to Know About This Sneaky Cost Increase
- Aaron Sorkin is working on a Jan. 6-focused follow-up to The Social Network
- World-Competitive Escape Rooms Are Darker, Scarier, and More Scientific
- An Iranian Cave, a Neanderthal Tooth, And an Ice-Age Murder Mystery
- Start Your Day Right With These 5 Highly Productive Habits
- This Man Accidentally Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Photobomb
- 100 Weird and Wonderful Medieval Dog Names
- Is Water Wet? The Answer is Surprisingly Elusive
- 11 Inventions That Came Before the Wheel
- The Man-Eating Dingonek Lurks Beneath East Africa’s Rivers
- Wild Life: Synchronized Coral Spawning
If you see some important tech news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.
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