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How to open an unknown file on an iPhone
Have you ever received a file on your iPhone that just won’t open? Maybe someone sent you something by AirDrop or email, or maybe you downloaded it from Safari, and now you’re staring at a file with a weird extension that iOS doesn’t recognize. What can you do? Read on, ‘cause in this guide, I’ll walk you through how to…
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7 Open Source Apps for Windows You Should Be Using
Did you know that many of the tools you use every day have free, open-source alternatives that are just as good as—or even better than—their expensive commercial counterparts? Open-source software is built by communities of developers who believe in making tools accessible to everyone. It’s usually free, regularly updated, and more transparent than commercial software. Best of all, it puts…
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Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are open at GameStop (update: sold out)
Update, April 24th: Following a messy rollout, GameStop has sold out of its initial preorder inventory for the Switch 2. The standalone Switch 2 comes with a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers, which magnetically attach to the console and feature Nintendo’s new “C” button — a shortcut that allows you to access Nintendo’s new in-game chat feature, GameChat. Inside the…
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InfoComm 2025 Best of Show Awards are now open for entries
InfoComm, the biggest audio-visual trade show aimed at professionals in this space, will soon be back in Orlando from 7-13 June. As with previous years, 2025’s event will play home to multiple AV industry stakeholders from around the world as they come together to showcase, celebrate, debate, and discuss the latest and greatest products, technologies and services this sector has…
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Open AI’s new models hallucinate more than the old ones – Computerworld
One of the biggest problems with today’s AI models is that they tend to simply make up answers when they don’t know what’s going on, something called hallucinations. You would think that the number of hallucinations would decrease over time, but according to internal tests from Open AI, the opposite is true. The o3 and o4-mini reasoning AI models produce…
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How to keep SMBs open for business – even when the power goes out – Computerworld
Internet outages are bad news for small- to medium-sized businesses. Point-of-sale systems won’t work when connections fail, meaning transactions can’t go through and revenue is lost until service is restored. And, as we know from the news, the situation is only getting worse with the increasing frequency of intense storms that tear down lines. SMBs know they can ill afford…
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Best Buy Switch 2 pre-order details — stores open at midnight plus how to get a $100 credit
Best Buy has confirmed its Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order deal. Hot on the heels of today’s Nintendo Direct event, Best Buy has announced it’ll offer gamers up to $100 in credits for every $150 you spend on Nintendo games and gear. (You can get a max of $100 in credits). Naturally, there are a few caveats. First, the credits exclude…
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OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’
Image credit: Creative Commons Developers have the opportunity to weigh in on OpenAI’s latest project. On March 31, the AI giant published applications for feedback sessions on an upcoming open language model, the second such model since OpenAI’s LLMs went private after GPT-2. It will be released “in the coming months,” according to a post on X by OpenAI CEO…
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How to Open a Mac App Package (And Why You’d Want To)
Summary Most Mac applications are neatly packaged, but you can easily peek inside using Finder or Terminal. App package contents typically include executable files, resources, configurations, and libraries. Reasons to open them include extracting icons, customizing apps, checking for malware, and resolving app issues. More often than not, Mac applications come in a neat little package, instead of a mess…
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Open source risks threaten all business users – it’s clear we must get a better understanding of open source software
Open source systems are now deeply embedded across technology stacks, from Android devices to mission-critical enterprise systems and, of course, AI. There are businesses built on open source, and organisations that have an open source first policy. And there are countless other businesses that use at least some open source, somewhere, in their operations. Other surveys show that open source…
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