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When Alan isn’t watching his favorite streamers on Twitch he’s writing about tech, gaming and cybersecurity.

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Meta’s line of Ray-Ban smart glasses continue to get useful updates from the company, this time with some new Instagram-based features alongside adding support for Amazon Music and Calm. Meta says that these new features will help “make... Read more...
Humane is looking to sell the business after its AI pin got panned by reviewers, with some calling it the worst product they’ve ever had to review. According to Bloomberg, Humane is hoping to sell from anywhere between “$750 million and $1... Read more...
Square Enix is finally bringing its incredibly popular Kingdom Hearts series to Steam, 3 years after the games debuted on the Epic Games Store. The reason this series remained exclusive to the Epic Games Store is that the titles run on... Read more...
Qualcomm is going all out for its Snapdragon X chips by releasing a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows alongside bringing the Qualcomm AI Hub to computers sporting the new processor. The company is hoping that with these two moves it can win... Read more...
Microsoft is looking to properly kick off the AI in PC era with its Copilot+ PC initiative the company is debuting at this year’s Microsoft Build conference, and Qualcomm will play a big role in the rollout. Qualcomm will be working with... Read more...
It has been three years since Apple debuted its AirTag trackers, and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman they should finally be getting an update in 2025. Gurman says that development is moving forward with the new device being given the... Read more...
A rumor about a possible new gaming handheld from Sony is making some waves on the ResetEra gaming forum. The source of the rumor is Russian journalist Anton Logvinov, whose post was found by ResetEra user Iroshino and later translated by... Read more...
Google took the wraps off its latest Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Trillium, at this year’s Google I/O conference. Trillium is custom silicon designed by Google do handle AI-specific tasks. According to the company, these sixth-generation... Read more...
The Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory, powered by Intel’s Xeon Max series of processors, is the new AI king with the ability to reach 10.6 AI exaflops of compute. On top of taking the AI crown, it also managed to... Read more...
The United States government continues to scrutinize the access Chinese telecom giant Huawei has to American made chips. This time around the licenses obtained by Intel and Qualcomm that gave the companies permission to sell to Huawei have... Read more...
Google’s DeepMind AlphaFold team is taking the wraps off its latest model, the AlphaFold 3, a model that can be employed by researchers to develop new drugs, life science innovations. This new model brings a 50% uplift over existing... Read more...
In a surprising move, Microsoft's Xbox division is closing several Bethesda studios, with Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty stating that these moves are based on a “reprioritization of titles and resources.” The affected studios include... Read more...
MediaTek is launching its Dimensity 9300+ chip to better meet the demands of the mobile market, with an emphasis on delivering better on device AI performance. The company says this chip will include higher clock speeds and support a wider... Read more...
The rise of AI is pushing up the prices of the hardware necessary to run it, and this includes HBM memory. Avril Wu, Senior Research Vice President at TrendForce, says that the market for HBM memory will see strong growth thanks to AI... Read more...
Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H: Starting at $2,699 MSRP. The Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H is a beast of a machine, well suited to gamers or content creation professionals looking for a portable powerhouse. RGB is optional Keyboard offers... Read more...
Google is paying Apple a hefty sum in order to be the default search engine in iPhones, with Google coughing up a staggering $20 billion in 2022 alone for the privilege. This is according to documents recently unsealed ahead of closing... Read more...
Instagram is making big changes to its recommendation engine with the aim of connecting creators to audiences that might not have been accessible in the past. The company appears to be working towards making its platform more friendly to... Read more...
The Federal Communications Commission is bringing the hammer down on the country’s largest mobile carriers after finding that these companies have been illegally selling customer location information. T-mobile, which also received a fine... Read more...
Researchers at the University of Washington have made a big breakthrough, developing a PCB that is able to be recycled several times over while losing very little material in the process. This development can be a game changer in a world... Read more...
Battlestate Games, developer of Escape from Tarkov, went to Reddit to issue an apology to the game’s fans after announcing the way it planned to release the game’s PvE mode. Nikita Buyanov, COO of Battlestate Games, said that he “did not... Read more...
Synthesia, a startup that has the backing of NVIDIA, is launching its fourth generation of AI avatars it’s calling Expressive Avatars that are powered by the EXPRESS-1 model. These avatars are designed to be used in video production and... Read more...
Meta is expanding on its collaboration with Ray-Ban by introducing new styles into the collection alongside improvements to Meta AI. The company says that these new styles will provide more options to better fit different face shapes... Read more...
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