I'm super excited to announce that @beardedtechguy and myself will be joining the @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Community Talks show tomorrow, May 25th at 1pm EST.
We'll be discussing why being on the #Fediverse matters to us!
We'd love for you to tune and give it a listen, and you can do so via the link below.
The newest most powerful chips from Intel and AMD don't qualify for Microsoft's newest CoPilot+ AI branding. We're already seeing INCREDIBLE deals on crazy powerful PCs, because of all the AI hype! Here's my review of the Geekom A8, with a BEAST of an AMD chip inside! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45e
Kern Co still produces~3/4 of the CAs oil & gas, but CA’s push to decarbonize its energy grid is putting these rigs +ppl who operate them out of work. The battery-storage tech plan is to retrofit depleted oil wells to store concentrated #solar energy in super-heated groundwater +use that heat to drive turbines when energy demand rises. If it works as planned... #Climatehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/kern-county-oil-solar-thermal-geothermal-energy-storage
When Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down early yesterday, it took down a number of services with it, including ChatGPT search, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo — all of which rely on the Bing API to operate.
With the majority of Google search alternatives taken out in one fell swoop, it highlighted the lack of competition that Google search truly has, and the implications that has on our online experience. Is there another way? @arstechnica has more.