AI data center boom pushes Caterpillar, Ford, and other US firms into new businesses
Powering AI is becoming big business
European Central Bank warns AI bubble burst could trigger systemic fallout
"A US AI fallout would not remain a US problem"
Fairphone brings its $649 repairable Gen 6+ smartphone to the US
The phone earned a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit
How to use a vocal remover to strip vocals from any song for free
LALAL.AI turns any track into an instant instrumental in just a few clicks
Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users
The company could face $193 billion in penalties as states put its social media design on trial
Sony still hasn't decided when the PlayStation 6 will launch
Specs are likely locked in, but the memory crisis has upset everything
China pulls the plug on Windows 10 for government machines months ahead of schedule
The order comes weeks before Donald Trump's planned meeting with Xi Jinping
Microsoft Office is down to $32 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $32. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 80% off the regular price.
Intel says Nova Lake, its next major CPU architecture, is coming to desktop PCs before servers
Nova Lake will bring a new core design to consumers before it reaches the data center
This website lets you check if your license plate was ever searched on Flock's cameras
HaveIBeenFlocked aggregates public records and identifies officers using Flock
Unitree shows off new Superman robot that it says can outrun Usain Bolt and jump 6.5 feet
The company says the humanoid can hit 28.3 mph after just three months of development
Better founder who fired 900 employees over Zoom is now fighting to get his own job back
Garg says Better's board pushed him out just as profitability was in view
Google pays $10 million for 100 million Spirit Airlines emails and 500 million Teams chats to train AI
A third party will remove personally identifiable information before the transfer
AMD Radeon RX 9050 8GB Review: Budget GPU, Zero Budget Value
AMD's Radeon RX 9050 8GB promises current-generation graphics for budget gamers, but poor performance and even worse value make this GPU nearly impossible to justify.
Leaked video shows Apple's camera-equipped AirPods identifying a book by sight
First look: Apple is known to be developing AirPods with built-in cameras that apparently would let Siri and Visual Intelligence see what users see. The cameras wouldn't just offer traditional photo or video capture, they'd also support AI-powered recognition and recall.
Ferrari's first electric car sells for a record $40 million at auction
The Luce, designed with input from Jony Ive, has drawn criticism since its May debut
A botched Mastercard update left Australian shoppers unable to pay
Apple Pay and cash withdrawals were also affected during the outage
Apple will begin assembling Mac Minis at Foxconn's Houston plant later this year
Foxconn is building the production line while Apple will buy the computers made there
Windows is losing a command-line tool that dates back to the Windows 2000 days
Microsoft is removing WMIC a decade after saying it would
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WTF
GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 cards with 3060s in esports hotels until a blackout gave them away
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"INSTANT" MESSAGING
This Carrier Pidge app delivers texts at 110 mph, unless your virtual pigeon gets lost, distracted, or dies
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STORAGE
New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba
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FUTUROLOGY
Samsung says Claude cuts chip design time from weeks to days, but mistakes remain
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BIG TECH
Nvidia's $5 billion Intel bet is now worth nearly $25 billion
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RIGHT ON SCHEDULE
Disgruntled security researcher just dropped another Windows zero-day
Upscayl is our favorite cross-platform image upscaling tool, and it's free
Upscayl is an open-source tool for enlarging lower resolution images. It uses local AI models to upscale and sharpen images, adding believable detail instead of just stretching pixels. It runs entirely offline on your own GPU, and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, with batch processing built in. For more useful tools, check out TechSpot's Essential Apps feature.
GitHub is down again, and this time it's hitting almost everything
The outage follows a lengthy Actions disruption last week that GitHub called "unacceptable"
GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 cards with RTX 3060s in Chinese esports hotels until a blackout gave them away
Customers apparently never complained about the huge performance downgrade
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of object called a black hole star
It could contain a black hole 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, wrapped in an enormous shell of gas
These are the tech CEOs young people trust most and least when it comes to AI
Even the most trusted name on the list was backed by just 35% of respondents
Connecting the dots: Is it surprising to know that CEOs – the profession most likely to attract or suit individuals with psychopathic or sociopathic traits – aren't trusted to act responsibly when it comes to AI? A new study has confirmed that this is especially true among younger people, who have a particular distrust of executives at Palantir.
Scientists create tiny drones and boats powered entirely by sound
3D-printed resonators create thrust without motors, gears or magnetic components
Amazon makes it harder for customers to sue as new terms block class actions and force arbitration
The company abandoned a similar clause five years ago after receiving 75,000 individual Alexa claims
Entry-level GPU shortages will get worse in the second half of 2026, warns PC Partner
It warns GDDR6 and GDDR7 constraints will tighten supply and push GPU prices higher through the end of 2026
Sam Altman says four years is too long for college as AI tears up the traditional career path
The OpenAI boss says two years was the "exact right amount of time" for him
Nvidia may have just built its own hyperscaler without owning a single data center
The neoclouds are burning cash by the billion. Nvidia just lined up the money to keep them building
Why it matters: Nvidia has quietly assembled every piece of a cloud giant, and it doesn't even need to own the buildings. That is the theory making the rounds, and once you see it laid out, the last two years stop looking like a chip company having a very good run and start looking like a plan. The financing arrangement Nvidia signed this month with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and four other Wall Street heavyweights, aimed at funneling more than $500 billion of outside capital into AI data centers, would be the last piece clicking into place. Most outlets filed it under the now usual "more AI money" headline, but there is a more interesting read.
New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba
Backblaze data was adjusted for drive age, capacity, temperature, form factor, and early retirement
This Carrier Pidge app delivers texts at 110 mph, unless your virtual pigeon gets lost, distracted, or dies
Finally, a messaging app with built-in bird-related failure
WTF?! Have you ever marveled at the lightning speeds of modern communications and thought, "I wish this wasn't so fast"? Probably not, but for anyone who doesn't want to resort to posting letters, there's a new app that replicates the message-carrying speed of a carrier pigeon. Adding further realism to the whole thing, there's a small chance that your virtual bird will get lost or die while traveling to its destination, so don't send anything too important.
Nvidia's $5 billion Intel bet is now worth nearly $25 billion, and its SpaceX stake isn't far behind
A new SEC filing reveals a massive web of Nvidia's AI infrastructure investments
UK researchers are growing miniature human tissue from NHS patient cells to improve drug testing
The £20 million Cambridge hub will build organoid models for IBD, cancer, and neurological disease
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