This sneaky deal gets you a month of Peacock or Paramount+ for $1 – what to know
Peacock/Paramount/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Streaming services grow more expensive by the year, and you may be hesitant to commit to a full month or year just to check out a couple of shows. But I found a deal that will let you try either Peacock or Paramount+ for a full […]
Your Windows laptop is probably wasting performance on startup — here’s where to look
It’s easy to think slow boot means your laptop is old or your SSD is dying. That was my first assumption, too, until I started timing things and realized the hardware was fine. The real problem was everything Windows was doing before and after I saw my desktop, and most of it was invisible to […]
The Nvidia H200 China Deal That Washington Approved and Beijing Blocked
President Trump flew to Beijing, brought Jensen Huang along at the last minute, and left two days later, telling reporters that “something could happen” on chip exports. Nothing did. Not a single Nvidia H200 has shipped to China since Trump first authorised the sales in December 2025, and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg that semiconductor controls were […]
Google I/O 2026 Live Blog: All the Gemini and Smart Glasses Updates as They Happen
It’s Google’s big day. Every year in May, the tech giant hosts developers and media in its hometown of Mountain View, California, for Google I/O, its developer conference. Google uses the I/O keynote address to showcase the latest projects it has been working on—services and features that will soon trickle into the many products we […]
Building Portable AI Workflows That You Can Take Anywhere : Social Media Examiner
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The RAM crisis is about to get uglier, and your new gadgets could pay for it
The memory market is already in terrible shape, and Nvidia’s new Rubin could be kicking it while it’s already down. According to a Fast Company report, citing a forecast from Citrini Research, the company’s next-gen AI platform could require more than 6 billion GB of LPDDR memory in 2027. With the LPDDR (low-powered memory) primarily […]
Email marketing ROI: How modern platforms turn campaigns into revenue
You send emails, but you’re not sure they’re actually driving sales. Maybe open rates look fine, but the conversions aren’t adding up, and you can’t figure out why. That challenge is almost universal among email marketers once they move beyond basic newsletters and start asking harder questions about what the channel is worth. Email marketing […]
How to Make Apps and Websites Remove Your Nonconsensual Nudes
Once someone submits a takedown request, a platform has up to 48 hours to determine whether it is valid. If it decides that it is, then it has to remove both the content reported and any identical copies. Several larger platforms say they use an industry tool called StopNCII, which uses matching algorithms to identify […]
As OpenAI Celebrates Court Win Against Musk, Other Challenges Lie Ahead
Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s head of strategy, celebrated with a team of lawyers in a federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, after Elon’s Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company was rejected by a nine-member jury in less than two hours. But Mr. Kwon and OpenAI cannot afford to celebrate for very long. […]
Bipartisan Bill Would Impose New Annual Fee on Electric Vehicles
Congress may require owners of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars to pay an annual fee to cover their share of the cost to repair roads, which could further depress sales of those models. Last year, Congress eliminated subsidies worth up to $7,500 for electric vehicle purchases and leases, causing sales to slump. A bipartisan […]