After all the rumors and teasers, Peloton’s $3,195 rowing machine is finally official. It packs a 24-inch HD display and electronically-controlled resistance. That kind of resistance, which typically feels different to Concept2 rowers in your local gym, doesn’t mean it’s particularly small, however – you might want to check you have the space in your home. Peloton claims The RowYou can receive feedback as you work.
It will need some amazing coaching because its price is so much higher than the other models. The aforementioned (and benchmark) Concept2 rowing machine doesn’t have a screen, Bluetooth or any digital tricks, but it’s also under $1,000. Hydrow’s cheapest rower, the Wave, is priced at $1,495, while the premium model is still hundreds of dollars less than the Peloton Row. It’s an expensive gambit for a company still getting its house in order, adjusting its PricesAnd Rethinking the approach.
The Row is now available for preorder in the US. The company expects to ship the machines in December – just in time for those 2023 fitness resolutions.
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NVIDIA’s 40 series GPUs finally arrive. At its GTC-2022 keynote, NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce RTX 4090 & GeForce RTX 4080. Taking full advantage of its new “Ada Lovelace” architecture, NVIDIA says the two GPUs offer significantly better ray tracing performance – and generally a lot of power for a lot of money. Next month, the GeForce GTX 4090 will be the first to go on sale. It goes on sale for $1.599 on October 12. The RTX 4080 will come in two versions. The base model costs $899 and includes 12GB of GDDR6X GDDR6X memory, 7,680 cores, and a total of $1,199. A 16GB version, with 9,728 Cores, will cost you a cool $1199. Both models will be available in November.
Apple opens the lock screen.
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Apple’s iOS 16 has made the iPhone lock screen more intuitive and useful. These changes also make it easier to use the iPhone’s Focus modes, which remain a little complicated to set up. There have been many small improvements made by Apple that make the iPhone more user-friendly. Apple’s Messages app continues to improve, and the increasingly useful Visual Lookup feature is something an Android device can’t quite replicate — yet. These iOS updates are often followed by an Android update. few extra tweaks – and Apple has already It was fixed with a battery percentage indicator. Did it pass my review? (It wasn’t.)
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Spotify has officially added audiobooks as yet another listening option in its app – for when you run out of podcasts, right? US users will now have access to a separate section dedicated to the format, which allows you to make standalone purchases via a hyperlink. The company estimates that its library will have more than 300,000 titles by launch. Audiobooks, which will be listed in the recommendations section on the main page, will also have their own section.
That’s according to a new study on recommendations.
If you’ve ever felt like it’s difficult to “un-train” YouTube’s algorithm, you’re not alone. One major issue, according to new research conducted by Mozilla, is that YouTube’s in-app controls such as the “dislike” button, “prevent less than half of unwanted algorithmic recommendations.” Of the controls available on YouTube, the most effective was “don’t recommend from channel,” which prevented 43 percent of unwanted recommendations, while “not interested” was the least effective and only prevented about 11 percent of unwanted suggestions.
Do you really need to care?
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It’s already been a year since Windows 11 launched. Somehow. It’s a good time for an update, then. The vast majority of the new features in the 2022 update, much like the enhanced Windows Update experience are under the hood. They include a number of accessibility improvements, including system-wide captions and previews of enhanced voice commands for your PC and transcription.
Two-tiered moderating system.
TikTok had a two-tier moderation process that, as recently as last year gave preferential treatment its most popular users. Forbes. The publication obtained an audio recording of a September 2021 meeting where the company detailed an internal feature called “creator labels” that was reserved for accounts with more than 5 million followers.
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