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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...

Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims

Comcast said it will drop "Xfinity 10G Network" brand name after losing appeal. Comcast has reluctantly agreed to discontinue its "Xfinity 10G Network" brand name...

Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: All you need to know is that it’s cheaper than a 4080

Down from $1,199 for the 4080, this GPU's price is more in line with its speed. Nvidia's new RTX 4080 Super is technically faster than the...

Microsoft Edge is apparently usurping Chrome on people’s PCs

An apparent bug that plays into criticisms of how Microsoft pushes Edge. If you run the Chrome browser in Windows 10 or 11 and you've...

Former Microsoft exec launches new AR headset

The Almer Arc 2 headset will allow users to connect remotely “as if they were physically present.” The Swiss augmented reality (AR) startup Almer has...

Elon Musk claims Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in its first human

Neuralink's first chip, called Telepathy, aims to control devices, like a phone, with thought. Billionaire Elon Musk posted on social media late Monday that his...

Wear OS’s most consistent OEM quits: Fossil stops making smartwatches

Despite years of loyalty, Google dropped Fossil like a rock once Samsung came back. Fossil was the only brand keeping Google's Wear OS alive for...

Blockbuster weight-loss drugs slashed from NC state plan over ballooning costs

The plan spent $102M on the weight-loss drugs last year, 10% of total drug costs. The health plan for North Carolina state employees will stop...

Amazon’s $1.4B Roomba bid fails, leading to iRobot layoffs and CEO resignation

Concerns over stifled competition, Alexa tie-ins reportedly sink deal in Europe. Amazon will no longer pursue a $1.4 billion acquisition of iRobot, maker of Roomba...

It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew

Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined. Much has been written about the plucky exploits of NASA's small Ingenuity helicopter on Mars....

OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents public

OpenAI said its governing documents would be available for public review, but they aren't. Wealthy tech entrepreneurs including Elon Musk launched OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit research...

The Pixel 8 Pro can now read body temps, if you swipe it across your face

The phone needs a four-second forehead scan to read your temperature. Most Pixel 8 Pro owners have probably forgotten that there's an infrared temperature sensor...

Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company

Judge throws out Meta claim against firm that sells Facebook and Instagram data. One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this...

Apple will pay artists 10% higher royalties for spatial music

Apple wants to incentivize more artists to make their music available in an immersive Spatial Audio experience. Artists whose work is available on Apple Music...

The year of Windows on Arm? Google launches official Chrome builds.

Chrome for Windows-on-Arm should hit stable in time for Qualcomm's big launch. Chrome is landing on a new platform: Windows on Arm. We don't have...
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