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Meta’s Oversight Board separates death threats and ‘aspirational statements’ in Venezuela
05 Sep

Meta’s Oversight Board separates death threats and ‘aspirational statements’ in Venezuela

John RoutledgeLatest News
Meta’s Oversight Board has weighed in on the company’s content moderation policies in Venezuela amid violent crackdowns and widespread protests following the country’s disputed presidential election. In its decision, the board said that Facebook users posting about the state-supported armed groups known as “colectivos” should have more leeway in making statements like “kill those damn colectivos.”The company asked the Oversight…
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Cheaper Copilot+ PCs are coming with Qualcomm’s 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chip
05 Sep

Cheaper Copilot+ PCs are coming with Qualcomm’s 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chip

John RoutledgeLatest News
Qualcomm is moving to make AI PCs more affordable. Following the company’s 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and 10-core Snapdragon X Plus, it unveiled a toned-down eight-core version of the Snapdragon X Plus on Wednesday. The chip includes the same Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) from the higher-end variants, capable of 45 trillion operations per second (TOPS) for powerful on-device AI.The…
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Acer’s Project DualPlay is a truly wild gaming laptop with a built-in controller
05 Sep

Acer’s Project DualPlay is a truly wild gaming laptop with a built-in controller

John RoutledgeLatest News
Since the dawn of time, gaming laptops have relied on third-party controllers or the trusty mouse/keyboard combo. Acer, however, could be looking to change this paradigm. The company just announced a truly wild gaming laptop with a built-in controller.Project DualPlay features a full-sized gamepad that inserts below the keybed, where the trackpad rests. You pop the controller out to play…
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The Acer Nitro V 16 gaming laptop now comes in an Intel flavor
05 Sep

The Acer Nitro V 16 gaming laptop now comes in an Intel flavor

John RoutledgeLatest News
IFA is upon us, which means that along with offering us some truly ridiculous new concepts, a whole bunch of manufacturers are giving their gaming laptops iterative upgrades and introducing some fresh variants. Acer is one of the companies doing just that (though in fairness, it has some more exciting announcements elsewhere, such as its first gaming handheld). The company…
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