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In the 1964 film Goldfinger Bond investigates the gold smuggling magnate, Auric Goldfinger. I think Auric would have liked this as his mouse. While the "standard" Viper Signature Mini retails for $280, this bling version likely slaps a golden mold over the existing magnesium alloy chassis. This adds weight and reduced grip, but honestly, whoever ends up with this mouse is probably more concerned about how it matches the rest of their gold-threaded curtains, golden toilet, and other kitschy deco, than their actual gaming prowess. Curiously, one of the pictures that shows the mouse in an equally special storage case has a blurred-out plaque.
Back when MicroSoft released Windows 95 they also introduced us to "PowerToys". It was a way for their engineering teams to test prototype features. After XP PowerToys took a little break, but was given another shot at fame in 2019. The most recent toy is "Crop and Lock" and is kinda cool and even useful for me at work. Crop and Lock, available for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 (19041) or newer, has two modes — a non-interactive Thumbnail crop that’s essentially a live feed of the area you select that updates with the page, and a “Reparent” mode that Microsoft writes is more interactive, but could have compatibility issues with some apps.
Arrrrr MicroSoft. With one hand you give, the other you take. Luckily NotePad++ is a thing. An awesome thing. Microsoft is no longer updating WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows. The software giant will instead recommend Microsoft Word, its paid word processor that has always been far more feature rich than the basic WordPad app that has shipped as part of Windows since Windows 95.
Dropping months of pay on a GPU to have it burn up due to a poorly design and implemented connector might not be a thing any more, and it probably shouldn't have ever been a thing, but here we are. What if you just removed the connectors entirely, though? The idea is that, instead of plugging a bunch of bulky wire bundles into your graphics card, totally trashing the aesthetics of your build, you instead slot a second connector on the card into a small slot toward the front of the board that then supplies the power. This connector concept is called "GC-HPWR", and ASUS already has working prototype graphics cards and motherboards using it.
I've been wanting to write 'something' about AI for sometime now but lack the time (and knowledge), maybe I could ask AI to write it for me ? Must be a buck or two in AI if its any good. Fascination with ChatGPT is growing so rapidly that OpenAI, the company behind the generative artificial intelligence technology, is reportedly on track to generate more than $1 billion in revenue. OpenAI makes money two ways: licensing its technology to corporate clients and via individual subscriptions. In a report as of March, between 1 million and 2 million subscribers were paying the company $20 per month to access the most recent model of the chatbot.
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