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Don’t Overlook These 10 Amazing Older Netflix Originals
Quick Links A Series of Unfortunate Events Netflix offers a wide collection of new original and exclusive movies and TV shows that you can find easily on the “Home” tab. However, this OG streaming platform has many older original shows that you might be missing out on. These Netflix Original titles are some of the most acclaimed shows, released between…
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Lyft Silver Accounts Aim to Make Things Easier for Older Riders
Rideshare services are convenient, but accessing them can prove a challenge to less tech-savvy potential passengers, particularly older adults. But companies are introducing changes that make their services easier for these groups to access. Lyft Silver is a new account type that, like Women+ Connect (aimed at women and nonbinary passengers), makes it simpler and safer to hail a ride…
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Microsoft Releases Largest 1-Bit LLM, Letting Powerful AI Run on Some Older Hardware
Microsoft researchers claim to have developed the first 1-bit large language model with 2 billion parameters. The model, BitNet b1.58 2B4T, can run on commercial CPUs such as Apple’s M2. “Trained on a corpus of 4 trillion tokens, this model demonstrates how native 1-bit LLMs can achieve performance comparable to leading open-weight, full-precision models of similar size, while offering substantial…
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Why You Shouldn’t ‘Fix’ Your Older Chromecast With a Factory Reset, According to Google
A mysterious bug is affecting numerous older Chromecast devices, as per a lengthy thread on Reddit—specifically, the second-generation Chromecast and the Chromecast Audio, which both launched in September 2015. If you’ve been affected, hold off on trying a factory reset of your device. The bug has started appearing over the last 24 hours, rendering affected devices pretty much unusable. One…
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Google to kill Chrome Sync on older Chrome browser versions
Google announced that the Chrome Sync feature will be discontinued in early 2025 for Chrome versions older than four years. When enabled, Chrome Sync keeps users’ bookmarks, passwords, history, open tabs, settings, preferences, and, sometimes, Google Pay payment information. It also automatically signs users into Gmail, YouTube, Search, and other Google services. The move was announced on the company’s community…
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Why Can’t Older Phones Work With 5G?
If you’ve ever thought about whether popping a modern SIM card into your old phone would connect it to 5G, I’m here to break the bad news: it’s not going to happen. But why? There’s a lot more to 5G than just faster speeds and a fancy name. It’s a bit like dropping a Blu-ray disc into a DVD-only player…
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How to Emulate Apple Intelligence Writing Tools on Older iPhones
Key Takeaways The majority of iPhones don’t support Apple Intelligence so the Writing Tools feature isn’t available to most iPhone owners. You can create a shortcut for rewriting text using ChatGPT that mimic’s the Apple Intelligence writing tools. The shortcut can recreate similar results to Apple’s Writing Tools on older iPhones, though processing takes place on ChatGPT servers rather than…
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D-Link won’t fix critical flaw affecting 60,000 older NAS devices
More than 60,000 D-Link network-attached storage devices that have reached end-of-life are vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability with a publicly available exploit. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-10914, has a critical 9.2 severity score and is present in the ‘cgi_user_add’ command where the name parameter is insufficiently sanitized. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit it to inject arbitrary shell commands by sending…
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How to check if Windows 10 22H2, 21H2, or older version is installed on your PC
Windows 10 22H2 (2022 Update) is the feature update number twelve that Microsoft released on October 18, 2022. Although this is an incremental update, it can be difficult to determine whether the latest version has already been installed on your computer. You won’t see the “Windows 10 2022 Update” name anywhere, but every release of Windows 10 receives a version…
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With High Used-Car Prices, Consider Fixing Your Older Car
Don’t defer repairs and maintenance. It can be tempting to put off certain services—such as getting the cooling system flushed or the spark plugs replaced—if you’re going to get rid of your car anyway. But if you’re planning to keep it for a while longer—either because the new car you want isn’t available or you can’t find a less expensive…
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