Apple has reportedly delayed the heavily rumored foldable iPhone again. An unnamed Apple "senior official" told Korean news outlet AlphaBiz that the company has pushed back the release of a foldable device from the fourth quarter of 2026 to the first quarter of 2027.Read Entire Article
Dylan Barrie is a game developer and hardware hobbyist. Over the last fourteen years of his career in the game industry, Barrie primarily focused on the software side of graphics rendering. However, he started developing a custom, full-stack GPU four years ago in his spare time.Read Entire Article
Researchers at the Austrian university TU Wien have developed a novel transistor technology known as Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistors (RFET). Traditional transistors are designed to perform predetermined logical functions, while RFETs are used to build circuits with functions that can be programmed on the go.Read Entire Article
On the big end, it works out to 14.2x of optical zoom which, according to Nikon, is the highest ratio in its class.Read Entire Article
Take-Two said Gearbox currently has half a dozen projects in various stages of development including five sequels (two of which are from Borderlands and Homeworld) and one title based on entirely new IP.Read Entire Article
On November 2, following a month-long trial, it took a jury around three to four hours to find Bankman-Fried guilty on the seven fraud and conspiracy counts related to the collapse of FTX and related hedge fund Alameda Research.Read Entire Article
Microsoft is reportedly testing a user-defined memory limiting feature for Edge that could prevent it from using too much RAM and slowing down the entire system. The new feature was spotted in the latest Edge Canary build by reliable tipster @Leopeva64, who posted a screenshot on X (formerly Twitter), showing...Read Entire Article
Microsoft's tactics when it comes to pushing Copilot onto users are comparable to its Windows 10 and 11 upgrade campaigns. The Redmond giant has launched a Pro subscription, is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs, and recently released the new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with dedicated Copilot buttons.Read Entire Article
According to CPU-Z screenshots posted on X by leaker Yuuki_Ans, the flagship Granite Rapids-SP processor could come with 160 cores and 320 threads. While the listing reveals only 80 cores, the thread and cache amount suggest that the actual core count could be 160 rather than 80.Read Entire Article
The requirements, which will come into effect on December 1, state that in addition to appointing an AI overseer, agencies will have to establish AI governance boards. Each agency is also required to publish a report online and to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) showing a complete list...Read Entire Article
A 115-inch variant of TCL's premium X955 TV is now available to order on German and Czech websites. Although it hasn't come to the US in this size, European shipments are expected to begin this spring.Read Entire Article
Xi met Rutte on Wednesday for discussions relating to areas that included the semiconductor industry. "The Chinese people also have legitimate development rights, and no force can stop the pace of China's scientific and technological progress," said Xi, according to Xinhua News Agency. The president added that China will "continue...Read Entire Article
#TBT Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now. While the 8008 wasn't the first microprocessor, it was truly revolutionary, triggering a revolution and leading to the x86 architecture that dominated personal computers for decades to come.Read Entire Article
At this year's Adobe Summit, the graphics and imaging giant announced the evolution of its Firefly image creation tool into a suite of business-focused applications. From content production to custom models and integrated AI assistants, the new offerings are intended to give businesses different ways to integrate generated graphics into...Read Entire Article
HWiNFO 8.00 introduces a new OSD feature, enabling users to monitor FPS along with system statistics including CPU and GPU temperatures, RAM usage, and more.Read Entire Article
At Intel's recent AI summit in Taipei, the company informed the public that Windows PCs will soon leverage NPUs (Neural Processing Units) to run Microsoft Copilot assistant locally. This is the first confirmation of rumors that emerged regarding Copilot and increasingly prevalent hardware-based accelerators late last year.Read Entire Article
Grading large language models and the chatbots that use them is difficult. Other than counting instances of factual mistakes, grammatical errors, or processing speed, there are no globally accepted objective metrics. For now, we are stuck with subjective measurements.Read Entire Article
Baldur's Gate 3, the D&D role-playing game that came to dominate this year's BAFTA Games Awards and other gaming-related events, can run at "playable" frame rates on laptops equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite chip. Qualcomm is bringing its latest Arm SoC to Windows laptops this summer and is confident...Read Entire Article
Major tech companies have invested in promoting RISC-V, a royalty-free ISA that could theoretically power everything from automotive solutions to smartwatches, or even next-generation phones. Some storage hardware manufacturers already employ RISC-V in fast SSDs. However, China-based Yingren Technology is one of the first to use the open ISA exclusively...Read Entire Article
For comparison, some flagship smartphones can record video at up to 960 frames per second. The Slow Mo Guys on YouTube have shot high-speed footage at up to 800,000 frames per second.Read Entire Article
Canva confirmed the acquisition this week, saying that adding the Affinity suite to its portfolio will help empower companies, organizations, and smaller teams "to achieve their (creative) goals." In a separate announcement, Affinity CEO Ashley Hewson said he is excited and looking forward to starting a "momentous new chapter" in...Read Entire Article
Researchers at the Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malicious campaign involving an updated version of "TheMoon," a malware family first identified ten years ago. TheMoon's latest variant has seemingly been designed to compromise insecure home routers and other IoT devices, which are then exploited to route criminal traffic through...Read Entire Article
According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower (via NBC News), X's US user base has been declining every month since Musk's first full month in charge. The 27 million daily active users it had in February marked a 27% decline compared to November 2022. It's also down 18%...Read Entire Article
According to researchers from the University of Cambridge, the burn-in effect in OLED panels can be eliminated by controlling the blue light-emitting diodes. In a study published in the journal Nature, the researchers claimed that covalently encapsulating the ultranarrowband blue light emitters in insulating alkylene straps could significantly reduce burn-in...Read Entire Article
GameStop posted $1.79 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter, short of the expected $2.05 billion and lower than the $2.23 billion the company earned in the same quarter a year earlier. Its adjusted EPS of $0.22 per share also missed the expected gains of $0.30 per share.Read Entire Article
Multiple developers at GDC 2024 told Chris Dring from Gamesindustry.biz that they are beginning to reconsider supporting Xbox. The comments, together with prior reports, paint a worsening picture of Microsoft's console strategy.Read Entire Article
Those vinyl sales mean the format outsold CDs by 6 million units, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The more expensive vinyl also made a lot more money than CDs: $1.4 billion compared to $537 million. And while CD revenue was up 11.3% YoY, the 37 million units...Read Entire Article
A Ferguson, Missouri family is suing the St. Louis County Police after a SWAT team raided and ransacked their home based on information from "Find My," the functionality that helps Apple users find lost or stolen devices. The lawsuit claims that the software lacks the accuracy to pinpoint a device...Read Entire Article
Image generation AI typically employs a process known as diffusion, which refines the visual output through several sampling steps to reach the final, hopefully "realistic" result. Researchers say diffusion models can generate high-quality images, but they require dozens of forward passes.Read Entire Article
On Monday, the European Commission opened investigations into three of the Big Six tech gatekeepers due to suspicions of non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). There are five probes in total – two for Google, two for Apple, and one for Meta.Read Entire Article