Latest News

Nvidia claims 10x graphics performance boost on Switch 2, with DLSS and ray tracing support
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Nvidia has posted a blog highlighting the features offered by their hardware powering the Switch 2 beyond the information Nintendo provided. Among them is ray tracing support.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
The recently announced ProtectEU plan aims to safeguard Europe from internal threats, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated, emphasizing that security is a fundamental pillar of open societies and thriving economies. Among the most pressing threats identified by the European Commission are terrorism, organized crime, cybercrime, and attacks...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft CTO predicts AI will generate 95% of code by 2030
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott predicted that 95 percent of programming code will be AI-generated by 2030. However, he quickly clarified that this does not signal the end of human involvement in software engineering.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation's internet bandwidth. Demand for content hosted on Wikimedia servers has grown significantly since the beginning of 2024, with AI companies actively consuming an overwhelming...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google's new battery tech will lower capacity over time, whether you like it or not
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
The feature, called "Battery Health Assistance," is essentially a software mechanism that automatically lowers the maximum charge level on your Pixel 9a after every 200 charge cycles. These reductions occur incrementally until the device reaches 1,000 cycles in total.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Arm is aiming to win half of data center CPU market by year's end
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Chips based on the Arm architecture used to play a marginal role in the data center business. However, things are changing fast and Arm expects substantial financial rewards thanks to the company's key partners in the market.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Trump's tariffs could prove to be a "nuclear bomb" on international trade and tech imports, experts warn
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
This aggressive escalation of Trump's trade wars could mean higher prices on virtually every product Americans purchase from overseas. Worse, analysts predict the tariffs could trigger recessions in multiple countries within the next year. "He just dropped a nuclear bomb on the global trading system," declared Ken Rogoff, former chief...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Miniature robot takes flight using magnetic fields, no onboard power
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
"Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering, and pollination, that artificial flying robots of similar scale fail to do," explained Liwei Lin, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study. "This flying robot can be wirelessly controlled to approach and hit a...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google AI falls for April Fools' prank story, presents it as real news
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Every April 1st, Ben Black loves pulling off a prank on the readers of his community news site Cwmbran Life. The 48-year-old journalist has been spinning up April Fools' Day hoaxes over the years that range from the hilarious to the totally absurd.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Reminiscing about Microsoft's early days, Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office. While he went on to write plenty of code for Microsoft in the years that followed, Gates holds Altair BASIC especially close to his heart, calling it the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »