As Alphabet's profits surge, Google implements further layoffs across multiple teams
The Python, Dart, and Flutter teams have been impacted
This techie created a GPU from scratch in under two weeks
Designing custom CPUs and GPUs has become something of a trend for hobbyists of late
Razer to refund over $1 million for misleading "N95-grade" claims on its Zephyr masks
Maybe stick to gaming products, Razer?
Facepalm: Remember when Razer released its Zephyr mask in 2021, at the height of the pandemic? The cyberpunky, RGB-covered respirator was N95 rated and offered another way to lessen the risk of Covid infection beyond traditional face masks, according to the company. The only problem was that Zephyr wasn't N95 certified, something that's going to cost the firm more than $1 million in refunds.
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FCC slaps top telecom companies with $200 million in fines for selling user location data
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint continued to sell data even after warnings
Airline ticketing system repeatedly confuses 101-year-old passenger for a baby
"They thought I was only a little child and I'm an old lady"
Epic will relaunch Fortnite on iPad, Apple ordered to open up iPadOS in the EU
Fortnite is coming to iPhone soon
Intel CPUs Are Crashing and It's Intel's Fault: Intel Baseline Profile Benchmark
For years, we have highlighted Intel's loosely defined CPU power specs and the problems they pose for customers. The issue now is that some 13th and 14th-gen processors have started crashing.
UK becomes first country to outlaw easily guessable default passwords on connected devices
Companies that ignore the law face a $12.5 million fine
US opens investigation into Ford's BlueCruise driver assist feature after two fatal accidents
Governments approved the system's use on predetermined sections of US and UK highways
Manor Lords achieves Steam's most successful city builder launch ever
One million in sales and 170,000 concurrent players on day one, more than any other city builder on Steam
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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Revisit: How Does It Compare Against the 7700 XT?
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Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs. Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D and 7950X3D
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The Best Phones: Top Picks for Every Price Range
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New Affordable AMD B650 Motherboard Roundup
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4K QD-OLED vs. 4K WOLED: What You Need to Know
NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps
Using lasers to send data across the cosmos
Raspberry Pi adding new memory options to its compact Compute Module 4S boards
Greater computing power and more memory for industrial applications
Battery costs have plummeted by 90% in less than 15 years, turbocharging renewable energy shift
Predicting a sixfold increase in global energy storage capacity by 2030
This precision crafted manual transmission pen features a functional clutch
A novel writing utensil
This deal gets you Windows 11 Pro for $29
Get Windows 10 / 11 Pro keys at a discount
Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards without GPU and memory chips
The used graphics card market is a hotbed of scammers
Desert land in India to host renewable energy park 5 times bigger than Paris
Ironically, it's being built by a coal billionaire
WordPress plugin vulnerability poses severe security risk, allows for site takeovers
Millions of exploitation attempts were detected in under a month
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HURTING CORE ULTRA SALES
Intel has a wafer-level assembly problem (and more CPU woes)
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GOOD OR BAD?
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry
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PHASE-CHANGE MEMORY
Researchers have unlocked the "Holy Grail" of memory technology
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Lenovo and Micron ship first laptop using LPCAMM2 memory
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Apple slashes Vision Pro production, might cancel 2025 model
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Researchers use supercapacitor parts to build a battery that can recharge in seconds
Millions of devices still vulnerable to abandoned USB worm, continues to spread globally
Researchers suspect Chinese state-sponsored hackers are responsible
TSMC lays out roadmap for massive, kilowatt-class chip packages and terabit optical links
The company's solutions could use up to a whopping 120x120mm substrate in 2027
Apple OLED iPad Pro to be unveiled next week could feature all-new M4 chip, be AI-focused
And probably be very expensive
Bang & Olufsen brings back iconic 6-disc CD changer from the 90s
Cheaper than a Bitcoin, but just barely
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Revisit: Is this the GOAT?
The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is widely regarded as the GOAT. The 7-year-old GPU marks the last time a flagship gaming GPU was offered at a reasonable price, that plus its exceptional longevity.
Match CEO's message to romance scam victims: "Things happen in life"
Showing the kind of compassion CEOs are famed for
Intel issues statement on Raptor Lake crashes, asks mobo makers to revise extreme BIOS defaults
Intel has suggested some motherboard makers have taken performance bragging rights too far
FTC distributes $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers from privacy settlement
The commission is distributing over 117,000 PayPal payments to eligible Ring owners
The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects
About half of the $39 billion in Chips Act incentives has been spent
China's Loongson claims its latest CPUs are a match for Intel's 10th-gen in single-core performance
The new 3B6600 and 3B7000 chips narrow the performance gap with Intel and AMD offerings
Intel has a wafer-level assembly problem, and it's hurting Core Ultra sales
Customers are hot for Intel's Core Ultra products
Nintendo Switch 2 will likely be larger and feature magnetic Joy-Cons
It's possible Nintendo has further delayed the console to give game developers more time
Rumor mill: We've heard about estimates concerning the performance, software features, and release date of the successor to the Nintendo Switch. However, very few details have emerged regarding its appearance or input methods. A recent report suggests that Nintendo is taking extraordinary measures to keep it that way.
DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes
It rolls through rough terrain like it's asphalt
Microsoft's Phi-3 Mini boasts ChatGPT-level performance in an ultralight 3.8B parameter package
Why it matters: Advanced AI capabilities generally require massive cloud-hosted models with billions or even trillions of parameters. But Microsoft is challenging that with the Phi-3 Mini, a pint-sized AI powerhouse that can run on your phone or laptop while delivering performance rivaling some of the biggest language models out there.
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