TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: Custom liquid-cooled PCs usually look fantastic, but they can be a lot of work, expensive, and introduce potential problems, such as leaks. Imagine, then, the amount of effort and money that went into a system with 69 water blocks, 100 feet of tubing, and two gallons of liquid. PC Gamer reported on the PC, built by Redditor psychoOC who posted images of it on the /r/watercoo ...read more

Roku struck a deal with creator company Jellysmack to launch new content featuring 17 popular YouTube and TikTok creators like Brad Mondo, Lauren Riihimaki (LaurDIY), Emmy Cho (Emmymade), Karina Garcia and more. The company announced yesterday that it’s launching two free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels, “Hello Inspo” and “Mysteria,” to The Roku Channel’s Live TV Guide. “Hello Inspo” will give viewers access to all their favorite lifestyle, beauty and fashion content creators, ...read more

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: Bad news for Windows 10 users who received offers to upgrade to Windows 11 last week despite their systems not meeting the minimum requirements: it was an error on Microsoft's part. Those who saw the promotion banner may have assumed Redmond had downgraded its stringent Windows 11 system requirements, but that's not the case. Microsoft writes that on February 23, some inelig ...read more

Elizabeth Hamren will take over as Ring CEO later this month. (Photo courtesy of Amazon.) Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord. Hamren is scheduled to start in the new role March 22, with a purview that goes well beyond Ring ...read more

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: A big new update is now available to Windows 11 users, with quality-of-life improvements and a new Bing integration that brings it more in line with the general direction of the tech industry where everything is more or less infused with AI. Those of you who were fortunate enough to test the new ChatGPT-powered Bing chat feature in the past few weeks are no doubt familiar wi ...read more

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Nvidia has launched a new AI upscaling tool designed to boost the effective resolution and overall quality of online videos. Dubbed RTX Video Super Resolution (VSR), the new tool taps into the power of GeForce RTX 40 and 30 Series GPUs to upscale lower-resolution video content up to 4K. Nvidia said the AI is able to remove compression artifacts including blockiness, ...read more

from the Big-Brother-sent-back-to-the-gym-to-bulk-up dept Legislating from the bench is always problematic. People who like what courts have decided will claim this was the right thing to do. People who don’t like the decision will claim this is an overstep. Whatever the case in Virginia, this is good news. Legislation from the bench happened. But it didn’t turn into actual legislation. A bill seeking to convert a court decision into law has failed to move forward, as Nathaniel Cline repo ...read more

Outreach reached unicorn status in 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Outreach is laying off 70 workers, about 7% of its workforce, marking the second round of cuts the Seattle sales software startup has made in the past six months. A company spokesperson confirmed the headcount reduction to GeekWire Monday evening. “Outreach regularly identifies the need to make operational and organizational adjustments to align with our strategic growth plan and path to profitability,” the spo ...read more

I’m sitting in front of a computer, looking at its graphical user interface with overlapping windows on a high-resolution screen. I interact with the computer by pointing and clicking with a mouse and typing on a keyboard. I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. This computer r ...read more

from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The Ultimate Learn to Code Bundle has 80+ hours of immersive, multifaceted, programming education. When it comes to web programming, there are a lot of tools you can learn and use to make your workflow more efficient and your products more exciting. This bundle will give you a crash course into a variety of languages and tools, plus how to integrate them, giving you an excellent foundation for further learning. Courses cover Ruby on Rails 5, HTML5, CSS ...read more