The European Commission is facing fresh calls to make good on its 2017 antitrust decision against Google Shopping by banning Google from displaying its own shopping comparison ads units in search results — boxes which Google populates with revenue-generating ads — as they argue the self-preferencing units constitute an ongoing competition abuse by the adtech…
It’s been almost 40 years since since we first met Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story, and now he’s all set for his big comeback. In the 31-second HBO Max teaser above for A Christmas Story Christmas, Peter Billingsley reprises his childhood role for Clay Kaytis’ movie, which will see adult Ralphie returning to his…
OK, well Netflix has gone and spectacularly stressed the crap out of me with its latest reality competition TV series trailer. Out of Japan, Run for the Money sees 29 celebrity players vying for a bunch of cash in a game with one rule: evade the hunters. Literally the participants just have to last until…
To morph into That Girl, there are a few things you must do. You should drink no less than three beverages in the morning, including but not limited to a matcha tea latte, hot lemon water, and a healthy smoothie. You need to work out before 9 a.m., preferably in a matching set. It would…
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 flagship has an issue beyond simply sizing up its large dimensions and hefty nature, with a company having produced a custom connector in order to get around a gremlin relating to squeezing the PSU adapter cable in. Okay, let’s start from the beginning here. The RTX 4090 is known to be a…
As part of its continued push to combat password sharing, Netflix has introduced the option to transfer user profiles to new accounts. The new feature, suitably-titled Profile Transfer, lets you move your viewing history, watchlist and personalized recommendations to a different Netflix account, should you find yourself moving from your current household. “People move. Families…
Bad news for Team Red: it seems that AMD’s high-end Ryzen desktop CPUs – including the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X – are having their performance effectively throttled by a feature in Windows 11. The feature in question is the Windows 11 thread scheduler (sometimes called a thread director) – essentially a simple background program that…
If you decided to play Resident Evil Village over the weekend on Steam, then chances are you were kicked from the game and locked out before you could say Lady Dimitrescu. Affected players were met with a sudden black screen and a message telling them their data was “incompatible”. If you tried to restart Resident…
Kyle Rittenhouse. Associated Press Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse has started a YouTube channel, and it’s all about guns. Rittenhouse says his channel will document his journey to “help to defend the Second Amendment.” Rittenhouse fatally shot two men and injured a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse has started a…
Good morning. Max Adams writing to you from New York. Markets have been saturated with inflation conversations this year. Have prices peaked? Core versus headline? Is the Fed responding too tough to lagging indicators? Etc. But just as you were probably getting tired of it all, turns out there’s a second part to this story,…