Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: A lifetime license for Microsoft Visual Studio Pro plus coding training courses is now only $55.97. Learning to code is one of the most practical ways to open new career paths, and having the right tools and training from the start can make the process a lot smoother. If you want to find the tools and
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Microsoft Copilot is now powered by GPT-5 too, mostly
Image: Microsoft Microsoft has added GPT-5 to Copilot, a day after adding OpenAI’s open-source GPT model to its local services. GPT-5, which also powers ChatGPT, is now live within Copilot, at copilot.microsoft.com, Microsoft said Thursday. Presumably the same model will eventually power the Copilot application running on top of Windows PCs, but the Windows app
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This fast 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is shockingly cheap today
Image: Acer It ain’t easy to find a deal on a gaming monitor, particularly if you want one that has a quality IPS panel. But today, Acer (via its official branded eBay store) is offering just such a deal: a refurbished 27-inch 1440p 240Hz gaming monitor, with that crucial IPS tech, for just $178.99. That’s
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AMD reports record $7.69 billion revenue but data center slowdown
For the second quarter of its fiscal 2025, AMD reported a record $7.69 billion in revenue, beating analysts' expectations of $7.42 billion. But the earnings per share of 48 cents was less than the expected 49 cents.Read Entire Article...
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Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 can dynamically alter the state of
At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, more likely, an automated AI agent — moves through the world the software is simulating. The resulting video of the
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Inside Unilever’s AI beauty marketing assembly line — and its
Unilever’s been building a generative AI assembly line for its digital creative. The system might offer a model for heavyweight brand peers, but could also cause a headache for creative agencies. For the last year the CPG giant has been working with marketing services firm The Brandtech Group to build up its Beauty AI Studio:
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ChatGPT is crushing all other AI chatbots, and the numbers
It might seem that “ChatGPT” is all you ever hear about when discussing AI chatbots, also known as LLMs. As it turns out, that’s reflected in the real world, too. Statcounter, which tracks the market share of operating systems, browsers, social media sites, and more, has begun tracking the number of sessions by users who
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Trump closes the online shopping loophole that beat tariffs
Image: Pixabay An executive order by President Trump will eliminate the de minimis exemption on tariffs on a worldwide basis, essentially making everything you buy subject to tariffs from the country of origin. The order will take effect on August 29 at midnight, on goods that enter the country or are withdrawn from a warehouse
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Microsoft finally fixes the worst thing about Excel’s pivot tables
Image: Microsoft Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of data into a digestible “number”—would automatically refresh when the data within changes. Charts already do that, for example. But, until now
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Sam Altman just gave the best reason not to trust
Image: OpenAI Sam Altman, the face of ChatGPT, recently made an excellent argument for not using ChatGPT or any cloud-based AI chatbot in favor of a LLM running on your PC instead. In speaking on Theo Von’s podcast, Altman pointed out that, right now, OpenAI retains everything you tell it — which, as Altman notes