Roku is doing what most of its rivals avoid
Roku is spending $185 million to get into a business that most other streaming platforms have avoided. In early May, the company announced that it will acquire Frndly TV, the cheapest of all the live…
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Roku is doing what most of its rivals won’t
Roku is spending $185 million to get into a business that most other streaming platforms have avoided. In early May, the company announced that it will acquire Frndly TV, the cheapest of all the live…
MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together
What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic’s founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create…
Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time often increases performance on tasks involving math, physics, and science. And this latest open model is turning heads for…
CrowdStrike’s rivals stand to benefit from its update fail debacle
The CrowdStrike debacle — a bug in the company’s Windows software that had the disastrous effect of rendering PCs unusable — has disrupted flights, canceled elective medical treatments, and left many an office worker twiddling…
Acer Swift X 14 (2024) review: A fast GPU still can’t outrun rivals
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent OLED display Good range of physical connectivity Solid CPU and GPU performance for the price Cons Generic design Mediocre battery life GPU performance is held back by 60-watt…