Who will be Intel's first foundry customer?
The big picture: Intel has ambitions to create a foundry business by manufacturing chips for other companies. This is an important strategic initiative that the company will need to recoup the massive investment it is now making in fabs around the world.
FDA approves treatment funded by Ice Bucket Challenge donors
The popular social media challenge helped raise more than $2 million for an ALS treatment drug
Asrock will send you a replacement motherboard if you can't get the stickers out of your DIMM sockets
A ridiculous problem on a $300 motherboard
Tesla's AI Day delivers a real Optimus prototype and more FSD updates
What just happened? Last year Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company's intent to deliver a functional prototype robot by 2022. However, all we got was a person dancing in a bodysuit and the promise of progress. Today's AI Day 2022 showed the first evidence of that progress.
Ubisoft wants to transfer Stadia purchases to PC
Stadia developers were unaware of service's shutdown, users want Stadia controller compatibility with other systems
Meta Quest 3 design and spec files leak
Might be a cheaper alternative to the upcoming Quest Pro
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Former admin borks ex-employer's network to try to get his job back with a raise
You can't make this stuff up
Nvidia clarifies power supply requirements for RTX 40-series
The big picture: Since the announcement of Nvidia's RTX 40-series graphics cards, some consumers have been curious or even worried about their power supply, wondering if it can safely run a new GPU. Thankfully, Nvidia has cleared the air and reassured users regarding the power requirements for its cards.
Google lost a food delivery drone when it tried to land on a power line and got incinerated
Recap: Alphabet food delivery company Wing has a spotless safety record. Well, it did until yesterday when one of its autonomous drones landed on some power lines. Nobody was hurt in the incident, but the drone was incinerated, and about 2,000 customers lost power briefly.
Backdoor.Stegmap, malware hiding in a plain Microsoft Windows logo
The big picture: Backdoor.Stegmap is a potent backdoor hidden within a simple Windows logo image file through steganography-based encryption. Chinese cyber-criminals are working hard with new and old techniques to permanently compromise high-level government and diplomatic targets.
Qualcomm VP believes smartphones have what it takes to match DSLR image quality
DSLRs can't match smartphone processing power
NASA shares first close-up images of Jupiter moon Europa in two decades
Juno flew within 219 miles of Jupiter's moon
Apple exec to leave company after making ill-advised comments in TikTok video
At least get the quote right if it costs you your job
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Review: Faster than Core i9?
The Ryzen 7 7700X is arguably the most interesting Zen 4 CPU for PC gaming: it's an 8-core, 16-thread chip using a single CCD, which should mean it's going to deliver the best performance.
South Korean chip production falls for first time since 2018
Too many chips, not enough demand
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Would you pay up to $1,999 for one of these custom RTX 4090 cards?
Will talk of a boycott impact sales?
Sackboy: Big Adventure is the next PlayStation PC game
Sony posts system requirements, with game arriving October 27
Amazon refreshes Echo speakers to act as Eero mesh network nodes
Each speaker can add up to 1,000 sqft at 100Mbps to your network
Google is sending Stadia to its infamous graveyard of canceled services
Stadia and Google Store customers will receive refunds
Chaos: a powerful malware infecting multiple systems and architectures
Malicious software can infect Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and several chip architectures
New York follows California in mandating zero-emission vehicles by 2035
Gas engines are going the way of the dodo
Gaming monitor shipments are down for the first time ever
Don't expect this trend to continue
Razer recruits Verizon to help with its 5G gaming handheld
More details on the Razer Edge 5G are coming in October
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NEXT-GEN
Would you pay up to $1,999 for an RTX 4090? & more Nvidia news
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STADIA IS DEAD
Google is sending Stadia to its infamous graveyard
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SECURITY
Chaos malware is infecting multiple OS and architectures
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IT'S OFFICIAL
Intel unveils 13th-gen Core CPUs: more cores, higher frequencies
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WEARABLES
Invisibility cloaks are only
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SPACE
Watch NASA hit an asteroid with a spacecraft as it happened
Amazon wants some customer service reps to work remotely as part of broader cost-cutting push
A win-win for employer and employee, but what about Amazon customers?
FPGA chip shown to be over 50 times more efficient than a Ryzen 4900H
FPGA achieved similar performance to a laptop CPU with a fraction of the energy and far less heat
China-based network tried to influence midterms, but long lunches and 9-to-5 hours hampered efforts
Taking a more relaxed approach to disinformation campaigns
Alienware unveils cheaper QD-OLED gaming monitor with FreeSync
Is G-Sync Ultimate worth $200?
Apple removes ad-free Instagram clone from App Store after Meta objects
The OG App remains on the Play Store, for now
The Analog Embrace: How Some Experiences Are Surviving the Digital Age
Zeroes and ones were promised to be the future, a digital media has taken over, but in some situations customers are returning to analog experiences in search of something more tangible.
Cloudflare launches invisible, privacy-focused Captcha to take on Google
No more box picking
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