GTA VI trailer 2 arrives: Vice City looks amazing, new gameplay revealed

the new footage which was captured on a playstation 5 looks into the lives of jason duval and lucia caminos a duo that have always known the deck is stacked against them when an easy score goes...

A Soviet probe launched decades ago toward Venus may soon crash back into Earth

the cosmos 482 lander also known as kosmos 482 has been in a decaying orbit since the soviet union launched the spacecraft in a failed 1972 mission to venus depending on numerous factors like space...

Original Fallout source code survived thanks to "rogue" Interplay co-founder

rebecca heineman a veteran programmer and co founder of interplay told videogamer that she made personal backups of fallout and fallout 2 while working on mac ports of the games her habit of...

Opinion: Are we nearing the peak of custom ASIC adoption?

we think it is important to remember that the case for custom silicon is an economic choice not a technical one read entire article

Hacker breaches TeleMessage system used by US officials, raising security concerns

an investigation by 404 media has uncovered a major security breach at telemessage an israeli company that provides modified versions of encrypted messaging apps most notably signal to us...

Nintendo sues Genki for showing Switch 2 mockups before official reveal

accessory and peripheral maker genki made a lot of headlines in january when it showed off an exact replica of the nintendo switch 2 to the press at ces the company also published a video showing a...

Apple iPhone: The Gadget That Rewired Modern Life

the iphone redefined technology and culture more than a phone it merged music communication and the web transforming not just gadgets but how we connect and create read entire article

The future of data storage might be ceramic glass that can last thousands of years

cerabyte recently conducted an experiment that seemed more like a culinary exercise than a technology showcase the german storage startup plunged a sliver of its archival glass storage into a...

UK could require solar panels on most new homes by 2027

the times has seen plans indicating that the british government will soon announce a roadmap for installing solar panels on virtually all newly built houses if the legislation passes this year the...

Kuwait declares cryptocurrency mining illegal amid power crisis crackdown

kuwait has launched a sweeping crackdown on cryptocurrency mining blaming the activity for worsening a power crisis that has led to rolling blackouts across the country as temperatures soar and air...

The Asus TUF Gaming T500 is a mobile CPU-powered desktop for better thermals

at the heart of the tuf gaming t500 is up to an intel core i7 13620h processor this is a 6 4 core cpu with 16 threads and boosted clock speeds reaching 4 9ghz which should provide plenty of muscle...

Cyberduck is a free SFTP client to manage cloud and server files

cyberduck is a free file transfer client for windows and mac it supports a wide range of services including sftp webdav amazon s3 backblaze azure openstack onedrive google drive and dropbox read...

Google Play shrinks by 47 percent following policy overhaul

the google play store the largest marketplace for android apps has shrunk dramatically over the past year since early 2024 its app count has dropped from 3 4 million to 1 8 million a 47 percent...

Reboot-free hot patching coming to non-cloud instances of Windows Server

microsoft says hot patching works by modifying the code of active processes in memory avoiding the need to restart them the service which entered preview in 2024 will become generally available for...

Fiber optic sensors could revolutionize early detection of volcanic eruptions

researchers at the california institute of technology in collaboration with icelandic scientists have developed a new method for using fiber optics as sensors to detect volcanic eruptions the...

New York wants to use AI and cameras to detect subway crime before it happens

mta chief security officer michael kemper said via the gothamist that the agency is working with ai companies to develop the software that can analyze real time subway platform feeds read entire...

Evertop DIY PC will give you hundreds of hours of DOS fun on a single charge

custom built devices for running vintage pc software are trending with new models embracing different approaches to retro emulation unlike the book 8088 which featured a genuine 8088 cpu for...

Russian authorities threaten World of Tanks developer for its alleged "extremist activities"

russian authorities have branded world of tanks related operations extremist and are threatening to confiscate property held by wargaming executives the case involves lesta games a moscow based...

Programmer develops method to run Llama 2 locally on DOS in a weekend

yeo kheng meng a programmer previously known for creating a dos client for chatgpt has recently embarked on a new ai related project focused on the prompt based computing environment of the past...

AI is reshaping chip design tools, and the results are impossible to ignore

silicon designers quickly discovered that many of the complex yet often tedious tasks involved in their process particularly the grunt work could be automated or dramatically simplified by...

New Windows 11 beta brings more changes to Control Panel settings

microsoft recently released new dev and beta builds of windows 11 to insider testers according to prolific build explorer phantomofearth the updates introduce another change to how users manage...

Slate Auto reveals a no-frills electric truck for under $20,000, made in the US

the slate truck stands out for its simplicity and affordability aiming to deliver a no frills driving experience at a price point well below the market average for electric vehicles with a target...

Microsoft relaunches Recall on Copilot+ Windows PCs after privacy overhaul

microsoft has officially launched its controversial recall feature but only for users of new copilot pcs the ai powered tool which captures screenshots every few seconds to build a searchable...

Netflix introduces cleaner subtitles focused only on spoken dialogue

the new option which will first appear on new titles coming to netflix such as season five of you shows only spoken dialogue no audio cues or speaker names supported titles will feature two...

Texas highways welcome first wave of self-driving freight trucks

according to axios the company plans to start with a single autonomous truck and gradually expand its operations the rollout marks one of the first real world deployments of driverless freight...

US researchers flee overseas as funding cuts bite and politics intrudes

the exodus is largely driven by abrupt federal funding withdrawals and project cancellations last month over 200 grants supporting hiv and aids research were terminated the national institutes of...

Discord appoints new CEO as IPO preparations ramp up

discord was conceived by citron and stanislav vishnevskiy who wanted to create something akin to a virtual living room where friends could chat with each other about games they like in fact final...

Google tells some remote workers to return to the office or face termination

google was one of the companies who decided to play it safe when it came to bringing workers back following the pandemic it introduced hybrid work models in april 2022 though managers were able to...

Blue Shield of California shared private health data of 4.7 million members with Google without consent

blue shield of california wrote on its website that it has begun notifying certain members of a potential data breach that may have included elements of their protected health information read...

Nintendo files DMCA subpoena odering Discord to identify"Teraleak" Pokémon leaker

in october 2024 discord user gamefreakout posted 1 terabyte of data to a discord server called feakleak that included so much unseen pokemon related material that the community gave it the nickname...

Meta expands Ray-Ban smart glasses with live translation, visual AI, and new frames

this update enables real time translation in english french italian and spanish allowing users to hold conversations across language barriers and hear instant translations through their glasses for...

Running on empty: California is about to run out of license plate combinations

the current sequence for non commercial vehicles started with 1aaa000 and will end with 9zzz999 try as i might i was unable to determine exactly why california went with the one number three...

There is a solitary black hole wandering near the center of our galaxy, astronomers confirm

a team of us astronomers led by kailash sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar mass black hole traveling through space by itself the researchers initially spotted this...

New Windows 11 setting lets users kill stubborn apps instantly from taskbar

for years the standard response to a frozen app was either to reboot the system or summon task manager often by pressing ctrl alt delete and hunt through the list of running processes to find and...

Logitech quietly raises prices on popular PC accessories by up to 25% after tariffs

in his video dougherty raises questions about the impact of ongoing tariffs and the future affordability of tech gear in the united states flagship products such as the logitech mx master 3s mouse...

Sam Altman says polite ChatGPT users are burning millions of OpenAI dollars

some shocking headlines involving the costs of being polite to ai chatbots like chatgpt have circulated over the past few days a few examples include read entire article

Open source AI is the new Linux, only faster

mongodb developer relations head and open source advocate matt asay argues that deepseek represents more than just chinese innovation it shows how open source reshapes ownership collaboration and...

Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"

who was the tech exec that made this overconfident claim 20 years ago read entire article

You can now generate AI videos on your gaming laptop with just 6GB of VRAM

the breakthrough comes from lvmin zhang of github and maneesh agrawala of stanford university the duo developed framepack a neural network architecture that enables high quality video diffusion...

Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earth elements and cut e-waste

although solid state drives have become the standard for personal computers mechanical hard drives remain the backbone of data centers worldwide when these drives are retired they are often...

New graphene-based flash memory writes data in 400 picoseconds, shattering all speed records

to put this achievement into perspective pox can perform 25 billion operations per second surpassing the previous world record for similar technology by a factor of 100 000 read entire article

Nintendo finally sets a Switch 2 pre-order date, but its sales restrictions might be over the top

the switch 2 will still launch on june 5 featuring upgraded internals improved joy con controllers with magnetic snap on rails and backward compatibility for most digital switch games nintendo has...

HP agrees to $4 million settlement over inflated PC prices on its website

the lawsuit accused hp of using strike through pricing showing a higher crossed out price next to a lower sale price to suggest that shoppers were getting a special deal however the complaint...

Judge rules Google built illegal ad monopoly, DOJ threatens another breakup

a federal judge handed google yet another courtroom defeat on thursday ruling that google built and maintained an illegal monopoly in key segments of the online display advertising industry this...

Amazon smart TVs could soon replace Fire OS with Linux-based Vega OS

electronics newsletter lowpass reports that amazon is preparing a new tv streaming device powered by vega os with development nearly complete the company is now negotiating with major app makers to...

Google offers free AI tools and 2TB of storage to eligible college students

applicants must verify their student status using a valid edu email address to qualify once enrolled students will receive an email reminder as their complimentary subscription nears its conclusion...

How a secret gambling syndicate won a $95 million Texas lottery by buying every number combination

the story started in the spring of 2023 when london banker turned bookmaker bernard marantelli wanted to buy every ticket combination in an upcoming texas lottery to guarantee the jackpot win which...

Rising power density and heat threaten the future of advanced semiconductors

the underlying issue is closely linked to the end of dennard scaling a principle that once allowed engineers to shrink transistors and reduce voltage simultaneously keeping power consumption in...

Discord begins experimenting with face scanning for age verification

discord is currently running a limited test involving age verification through facial scanning technologies the company confirmed that the test aims to age gate access to specific spaces or...