3/22/23

Consumer Tech

How to check if a USB-C cable supports fast charging (HTG)

Nomad’s hefty new MagSafe charger will stay exactly where you put it (DT)

Will the iPhone 15 Pro’s solid-state buttons have any actual benefit? (Macworld)

6 things I want to see in the new iMac (DT)

Onyx Boox Tab Ultra review: an Android tablet unlike any other (DT)

Keychron S1 QMK Mechanical Keyboard review: A compact, customizable board (HTG)

The best ultrawide gaming monitors in 2023 (PopSci)

Alienware AW2524H review: The first 500Hz monitor sets new clarity standards (PCWorld)

Alienware 500Hz gaming monitor review: for the pros only (DT)

Are Intel Arc GPU drivers still buggy, or getting better? (PCWorld)

A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (Ars)

Google says late Pixel Watch alarms will be fixed “in the coming weeks” (Ars)

Future Apple Watches could automatically accessorize with their bands (Verge)

Information

BT accused of stifling competition by broadband network rivals (Bloomberg)

SpaceX’s Starlink and other satellite internet providers are making light pollution worse for astronomers (Verge)

WhatsApp group admins can now approve who joins their communities (Engadget)

Not everything needs a chatbot (Slate)

China’s answer to ChatGPT flubs its first lines (Wired)

Opera browser adds ChatGPT and AI summarization features (TechCrunch)

Hands-on with Microsoft’s Dall-E 2-based Bing Image Creator: It’s good! (PCWorld)

Bing’s AI chatbot can now generate unhinged images along with unhinged text (Ars)

Google’s artificially intelligent ‘Bard’ set for next stage (AP)

Google Bard AI hands-on: A work in progress with plenty of caveats (Engadget)

Google CEO tells employees that 80,000 of them helped test Bard A.I., warns ‘things will go wrong’ (CNBC)

Adobe launches Firefly generative A.I., which lets users type to edit images (CNBC)

Nvidia turns to AI cloud rental to spread new technology (Reuters)

How AI will revolutionize the practice of law (Brookings)

Commerce/Gig Economy

How the last-ditch effort to save Silicon Valley Bank failed (WSJ)