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Hero cat saves owner as PC starts burning from NVIDIA RTX 4090 meltdown
1+ week, 5+ day ago (401+ words) A PC owner has credited their cat with saving them from a dangerous situation after their NVIDIA RTX 4090 began to melt and smoke while unattended. According to reports, the incident started when the user stepped away from their computer, only…...
Desperate gamer bakes dying GTX 1080 in an oven to fix it and it actually works
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (436+ words) A PC gamer desperate to save their eight-year-old graphics card resorted to an extreme tech repair technique. They baked their dying Gigabyte GTX 1080 in a literal oven and somehow brought the hardware completely back to life. The Reddit user shared…...
Family in China creates AI Clone to comfort elderly mother after son's death
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (217+ words) After a man in China was killed in a traffic collision, a family in China hired a technology company to create an AI version of him in order to keep his elderly mother from learning of his death. An elderly…...
Pokemon Go players are using government geological survey maps to hunt new Pokemons
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (221+ words) Pokemon Go players cracked Silicobra's spawn mystery, and the answer came from a U. S. government land survey. Players in Christchurch, New Zealand, provided the initial ground-truth data, logging exact spawn coordinates that researchers then overlaid against the USGS map. The fit…...
You Tuber builds DIY Steam Machine before Valve even reveals full specs
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (369+ words) A You Tuber has built their own version of a Steam Machine, saying it could be faster and cheaper than Valve's upcoming console. The project, shared in a detailed video by Zac Builds, detailed his attempt to build a console…...
Restaurant scans customers" tongues with AI to suggest what they should order
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (371+ words) A restaurant in China is using AI to recommend food after scanning customers" tongues and faces, and they"re even using robots to cook the dishes. Artificial intelligence has made a fair few waves in the food industry. There are…...
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly making AI clone of himself to reduce time in meetings
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (382+ words) Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly helping create an AI clone of himself, one that would sit in on meetings for him and save a great deal of time in the process. On March 24, we reported how the Meta CEO…...
Tech company launches AI Jesus you can talk to for $2 a minute
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (236+ words) A tech company has set up a new platform that allows users to have conversations with an AI avatar of Jesus Christ. Just Like Me is a tech company that creates AI versions of certain celebrities, experts and personalities. According…...
You Tube rolls out AI avatars anyone can use that look and sound like real people
1+ week, 3+ day ago (409+ words) You Tube is rolling out a major AI upgrade that could change how creators make content by letting them post videos without ever stepping in front of a camera. The platform is introducing AI-powered avatars that look and sound like…...
Target warns shoppers are "responsible" if AI makes mistakes on orders
1+ week, 5+ day ago (364+ words) Target has warned shoppers that if they use AI to do their shopping, and it makes any sort of mistake, they will be liable for it and have to pay up. For a lot of people, artificial intelligence has started…...