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Microsoft updates Intel-based Surface PCs, if you can pay for them

Businesses often use hardware and software that still needs x86 to run properly. Microsoft's new Surfaces are all business. Credit: Microsoft Microsoft switched the Surface Pro tablet and both sizes of Surface Laptop from...

Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more

Side channel gives unauthenticated remote attackers access they should never have. Apple is introducing three...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast

Even setting aside Frame Generation, this is a fast, power-hungry $2,000 GPU. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Nvidia's...

Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1...

Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy

A roundup of executive orders issued by Trump after his second inauguration. US President Donald...

3D printer arrives to space to recycle garbage

The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that a metal 3D printer has successfully arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) to print metal...

US singles out Chinese companies for helping Beijing’s military

The Pentagon added more than a dozen Chinese companies to a blacklist created by the Defense Department to highlight firms it says are allegedly...

Apple Vision Pro apps offer 3D bonanza

Hold onto your virtual hats: in the lead-up to its Vision Pro launch on Friday, Apple announced the release of over 600 innovative and...

SpaceX Phases Out Old Starlink Dish, Offers Next-Gen Model to All US Users

SpaceX's newest Starlink dish, model V4, is now available to all residential subscribers on the company's official website. But it looks like the second-gen...

Apple Dramatically Increased Its Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year

Apple's auto division logged four times as many miles in 2023 as it did in 2022 While Apple doesn’t have its own commercial autonomous vehicle...

Intel’s $20 Billion Ohio Factory Faces 2-Year Delay

Intel indicates it may have been overly aggressive in trying to get the Ohio factory running by 2025. Intel’s major chip plant for Ohio may...

Digital watermarking and the future of online trust

With half the world’s population invited to vote this year, and fears mounting over deepfakes and other fabricated narratives being circulated to sway elections,...

China’s Xreal raises another $60M to challenge Vision Pro, Quest

Chinese startup Xreal said it secured $60 million in the latest “strategic” investment round aimed at increasing the production of AR glasses set to...

Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse

Apollo dev: "I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership... cares about developers anymore." Last year, Reddit sparked massive controversy when it dramatically changed the prices and rules...

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google...

“Rasti Computer” is a detailed GRiD Compass tribute made from Framework innards

It's a custom keyboard, an artfully dinged-up case, and a wonderful throwback. If I had to figure out what to do with the insides of...

YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

Ad-free videos and YouTube Music access hits a major milestone. Hot on the heels of Google's "One" subscription plan obtaining 100 million users, YouTube is...

Biogen dumps dubious Alzheimer’s drug after profit-killing FDA scandal

The move ends a long saga that "ended up doing a lot of actual damage." Biotechnology company Biogen is abandoning Aduhelm, its questionable Alzheimer's drug that...

Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete

The laptop hadn't been for sale in more than seven years. Sometimes, it's worth taking a moment to note the end of an era, even...
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