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How to find your phone's expiration date and make it last as long as possible Your phone is dying as you’re reading this. Like milk, bike helmets and condoms, phones are sold with a built-in expiration date. At the low end, we’re talking just a couple of years, but most are supported for three to four. Continue Reading . . . https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2024/06/13/how-to-find-phone-expiration-date/74003192007/

Intel says it still doesn’t have the true fix for its crashing i9 desktop chips For months, Intel’s highest-end desktop gaming processors have had a strange tendency to occasionally make games crash — and despite what you might have seen earlier today, Intel says it doesn’t have a final fix for its 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core i9 “Raptor Lake” and “Raptor Lake S” Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/14/24178751/intel-raptor-lake-crash-fix-etvb-not-yet

ULTRAVIEW ARCHERY UV SLIDER™ - RESERVE NOW Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh. Press the space key then arrow keys to make a selection. Continue Reading . . . https://ultraviewarchery.com/

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage Google's AI search, which swallows up web results and delivers them to users in a regurgitated package, delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries in a concise, coolly confident tone. Just one tiny problem: it's wrong. A lot. Continue Reading . . . https://futurism.com/google-ai-inaccurate-garbage

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/24/24164119/google-ai-overview-mistakes-search-race-openai

Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos Earlier today, Apple issued a fix in iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1. Patching buggy software is a good, normal thing. But that’s not the issue here. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use for both professional creatives and inexperienced users alike, even from a phone. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161490/adobe-lightroom-generative-remove-object-removal-tool