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Fire departments are testing autonomous drones that fight wildfires before crews even arrive
Posted on Tuesday July 21, 2026
A California company recently began demonstrating a system that allows firefighters to direct autonomous drones to combat wildfires. While departments already use observation drones, deploying them to fight fires directly remains an unexplored tactic.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia is giving developers more control over DLSS 5, after accusations it turns games into "AI slop"
Posted on Tuesday July 21, 2026
Nvidia used its SIGGRAPH 2026 keynote to demonstrate the controls that developers will receive when DLSS 5 launches this fall. The two main global sliders are Structure Intensity and Tone Intensity, which essentially determines how enthusiastically the AI repaints a frame.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Sony's digital-only future angers fans, but physical PlayStation games are barely selling
Posted on Tuesday July 21, 2026
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella recently stated that only seven PlayStation games have sold more than 100,000 physical copies in the first half of 2026. Only two sold more than 10,000 during the week ending July 11, potentially vindicating Sony's claim that PlayStation owners overwhelmingly prefer digital purchases.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors wins final court approval
Posted on Tuesday July 21, 2026
US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed off on the deal Monday, rejecting objections that the payout was too small, the lawyers were being overpaid, or some copyright holders had been improperly excluded. She awarded the plaintiffs' attorneys more than $101 million, well below the $187.5 million they requested.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
What was the world's first digital and programmable robot?
Posted on Tuesday July 21, 2026
It was stationed at General Motors and sold at a loss.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Refuse a data center transmission line on your property, and power companies may force it through anyway
Posted on Tuesday July 21, 2026
While 70% of Americans are now opposed to data centers being built near their homes, it's not just the enormous, pollution-and-noise-spewing buildings they're against. There's also the required new power infrastructure, such as transmission lines that often need to cross private property.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Researchers create a drone that becomes almost invisible by spinning 25 times per second
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026
Rather than using camouflage, transparent panels, or Predator-style light-bending materials, Phantom Twist exploits motion blur and the limits of human vision.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
New Ryzen 7 7700X3D drops to $279, just days after launch
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026
Newegg is knocking $50 off AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D with promo code PKC337, bringing it down from its $329 to $279. At that price, it becomes a stronger value proposition against the Ryzen 7 7800X3D while gaming performance stays nearly identical. Our full review is coming this week.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
7-Zip patches a flaw that could run malware just from opening a bad file
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026
Researchers have uncovered a fresh vulnerability in the open-source file archiver. The bug lies in the decompression routine for XZ data, where a buffer overflow could eventually let attackers run malicious code remotely. A patch is already out, though 7-Zip still has no built-in auto-update mechanism – users have to...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
FluentCleaner ditches the bloat with a new 3.5 MB Classic edition
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026
FluentCleaner Classic swaps the WinUI 3 shell for a portable 3.5 MB WinForms build on .NET Framework 4.8, no runtime install needed. Same cleaning engine, just far less overhead than the standard app's 140 MB footprint. The result is a fast, no-frills cleaner that runs on virtually any Windows installation.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »