It’s no secret that RAM prices are absolutely Out. Of. Control. Paradox Customs is taking an interesting approach, selling “prebuilt” PCs that skip memory entirely. The idea being, if you happen to have spare sticks lying around, you can save some money. Of course, it’s also an alarming sign of what the PC market has come to.
Some people think they can pull a fast one by “returning” something they’ve bought, but replacing the original with a knockoff and keeping the real deal. UPS’s return centers are using machine learning to spot minor differences that might get missed by their human auditors. But the real fun in this video from Reuters is the swarm of robots that ferry returns around the warehouse.
A recent investigation by Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union found that Instacart was charging customers different prices for the same products, from the same store, at the same time.
That has apparently raised some eyebrows at the FTC, which, according to Reuters, is now probing the company’s AI-powered pricing tool.
Image-Line is currently beta-testing a web-based version of FL Studio, the DAW of choice for producers such as Metro Boomin and 9th Wonder. It will be a streamlined app designed for beginners learning the basics of music production. But when you’re ready to make the jump, projects created in FL Studio Web can be imported to the full desktop suite.
The anger over fake songs is boiling over into action.
It takes a lot to convince the Russian people that something is worth openly criticizing their government and staging a show of opposition. Apparently, one of the few things that can convince them to risk the repercussions is the recent Roblox ban. According to Reuters:
In Tomsk, 2,900 km (1,800 miles) east of Moscow, several dozen people braved the snow to hold up hand-drawn placards reading “Hands off Roblox” and “Roblox is the victim of the digital Iron Curtain” in Vladimir Vysotsky Park, according to photographs provided by an organiser of the protest.
“Bans and blocks are all you are able to do,” read one placard. The photographs showed about 25 people standing in a circle in the snow, holding up placards.