November 29, 2024

Hardware

Best Buy’s Huge Black Friday Event Is Live With Tons Of Great Tech Deals

You know the drill! It’s Black Friday and we’re bringing you the best deals from Best Buy. The nation’s only remaining nationwide big-box tech store is marking down items to move inventory for all the new stuff that’s assuredly already arriving for the Holiday season, and you can reap the benefits. Starting off strong with the computer deals, we have the ASUS ROG Ally Z1E for just $499. Now let’s be clear: for $499, you

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AI

Think you Know Excel? Take Your Analytics Skills to the Next Level with Power Query!

5 practical use cases that prove Power Query is worth exploring. Ilona Hetsevich · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 10 hours ago — I have a confession to make: I’ve been living under a rock 🪨. Not literally, but how else can I explain not discovering Power Query in Excel until now? Imagine realising that all those hours spent wrangling VLOOKUPs, nesting IFs, and battling messy data could’ve been

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AI

Water Cooler Small Talk: Simpson’s Paradox

STATISTICS Is your data tricking you? What can you do about it? Maria Mouschoutzi, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 11 hours ago — Image created by the author using GPT-4 / All other images created by the author unless specified otherwise Water cooler small talk is a special kind of small talk, typically observed in office spaces around a water cooler. There, employees frequently share all kinds

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AR/VR

LINE’s Blockchain Vision: Simplifying the Future with Decentralized Apps

LINE, the Japanese messaging giant, is making waves in blockchain. The company has announced plans to roll out 30 mini-decentralized apps (dApps) in 2024, aiming to bring blockchain closer to everyday users. These apps will expand LINE’s ecosystem, offering new ways for people to interact, game, and manage finances—all within the familiar LINE platform. This move comes hot on the heels of a major success: DOSI, a digital commerce platform launched by LINE NEXT in

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Hardware

Grab a Windows 11 Pro key for just $23.50 after 25% discount in SCDKEY Black Friday sales

TL;DR: SCDKEY is offering exclusive Black Friday deals for TweakTown readers this year, including a Windows 11 Pro key for $23.50. Other deals include Windows 10 Pro for $16.40 and Office 2019 Professional Plus for $59.90. SCDKEY is bringing the excitement this Black Friday with a range of unbeatable deals, exclusively for TweakTown readers! If you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to upgrade your software at an amazing price, now’s your chance. For instance,

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Hardware

No Man’s Sky Finally Achieves This Coveted Feat On Steam After 8 Years

No Man’s Sky made some big promises before its release on PC and PS4 in 2016, showing off trailers of incredible alien creatures and unfathomable landscapes. But when gamers landed on their first planets, they found there really wasn’t much to do. The game’s reviews tanked, but Hello Games didn’t give up. Now, eight years later, No Man’s Sky has reached an important milestone on Steam with an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating. Steam keeps track of

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Alibaba releases Qwen with Questions, an open reasoning model that beats o1-preview

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has released the latest model in its ever-expanding Qwen family. This one is known as Qwen with Questions (QwQ), and serves as the latest open source competitor to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model. Like other large reasoning models (LRMs), QwQ uses extra compute cycles during inference to review its answers and correct its

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Hardware

MSI Claw 7 AI+ Lunar Lake Gaming Handheld Is Now Available To Preorder

MSI’s maiden Claw handheld was competent, but likely less compelling to cautious consumers when confronted by AMD-powered competitors boasting beefier performance and better battery life. That largely mirrors the reality of comparing Intel’s Meteor Lake against AMD’s Phoenix in gaming laptops. What about Lunar Lake, though? If you’re out of the loop, Intel’s newer Core Ultra 200V-series processors (codenamed “Lunar Lake”) matched up well against AMD’s current generation “Strix Point” SoCs and beat the pants

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Hardware

Microsoft hit with antitrust probe by US authorities over its cloud and AI practices

TL;DR: The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft’s business practices in cloud, artificial intelligence, and information security. Concerns include exclusive Azure deals, security breaches involving government emails, and Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, potentially avoiding regulatory scrutiny. The probe aims to assess Microsoft’s influence and compliance in these sectors. Microsoft has reportedly been asked by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to provide information on its business practises in the following markets: cloud, artificial intelligence,

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Hardware

Apple AirPods Pro 2 Hit An All-Time Low And More Great BF Earbud Deals

The age of the omnipresent headphone jack is long gone, and even adapters are rarely included with new devices. So, what’s a music fan to do? Buy Bluetooth earbuds, it would seem. With holiday sales cranking up on Amazon today, it’s as good a time as any to upgrade your audio, especially if you’re an Apple user. Apple AirPods Pro 2 At An All Time Low Deal Price For Black Friday The Apple AirPods Pro

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