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Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"
Posted on Sunday January 11, 2026
Huang made his feelings about AI skeptics, haters, and doom-mongers clear on a recent episode of the No Priors podcast.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
TV prices have fallen more than 90% since 2000, thanks to mass scale
Posted on Sunday January 11, 2026
A review of Black Friday ads spanning the past quarter-century shows that TV prices have dropped by more than 90 percent since 2000, even after accounting for dramatic increases in screen size and resolution. According to Brian Potter of the Institute for Progress, the decline is largely the result of...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The next EV breakthrough isn't the car, it's the battery factory
Posted on Sunday January 11, 2026
Electric vehicles already deliver what most drivers say they want: a quiet, comfortable car that is cheap to run and does not spew exhaust. Yet even as battery-only models pass roughly one-fifth of new car sales worldwide, prices remain too high for many buyers, and several major Western automakers are...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Bolt Graphics claims 10x RTX 5090 path tracing performance, but proof is still pending
Posted on Saturday January 10, 2026
The prototype card on display at CES supports up to 384GB of combined LPDDR5X and DDR5 memory, including as much as 128GB of soldered VRAM. It also features up to four DDR5 SO-DIMM slots and an 800Gbps memory interface. Power consumption tops out at 225W, delivered through an 8-pin PCIe...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Big Tech's AI boom is reviving America's nuclear power debate
Posted on Saturday January 10, 2026
Seven years ago, the energy industry looked very different. Utilities such as Entergy were shuttering plants like Palisades on the grounds that cheap natural gas and flat demand had made them uneconomic. Workers who had kept Palisades running well into its fifth decade watched it close in May 2022 with...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Epic Games Store keeps growing, but third-party game revenue tells another story
Posted on Saturday January 10, 2026
A chart recently shared on social media shows that spending on third-party games on the Epic Games Store grew by just 1.6% between 2019 and 2024. The data, drawn from Epic's annual review blog posts (see below), reveals that revenue climbed steadily until 2022 before reversing course and falling back...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
These paper batteries made from plants want to replace AA and AAA cells
Posted on Friday January 09, 2026
At this year's show, Flint wasn't showing off just lab prototypes. The batteries running toy trains at its booth were production-grade AA and AAA cells made from plant-based materials, not the metal-heavy chemistries that dominate today's market. Flint says those alkaline-style replacements are slated to reach consumers later in 2026,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Astronomers watch a star being torn to pieces by a supermassive black hole
Posted on Friday January 09, 2026
A team of researchers recently reported the discovery of AT2024wpp, an extremely energetic event involving a black hole and a massive star locked in a deadly cosmic dance. The stellar object was "spaghettified" by the black hole, a tidal disruption event that released an amount of energy equivalent to 400...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Samsung and SK Hynix are jacking up DRAM prices by as much as 70 percent
Posted on Friday January 09, 2026
According to Korean sources, Samsung and SK Hynix are more than willing to raise memory chip prices while the AI-driven financial bubble continues. Both companies are reportedly notifying their high-profile customers that server DRAM prices could increase by as much as 60 – 70 percent compared to the fourth quarter of last year.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel and AMD clash over who will power the next wave of handheld gaming PCs
Posted on Friday January 09, 2026
Intel executive Nish Neelalojanan accused AMD of using "ancient silicon" in its handheld gaming PC APUs during an interview at CES this week. He also argued that when Intel eventually introduces handheld APUs based on Panther Lake processors with Xe3 Arc integrated graphics, the company's low-power E-cores will deliver superior...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »