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Amazon's updated Luna streaming service gets party games, AAA titles, and a Snoop Dogg courtroom game
Posted on Friday October 24, 2025
It sounds as if Amazon is hoping to reignite interest in similar digital party games that experienced a boost in popularity during Covid times. Up to 16 players, depending on the title, can take part in GameNight by scanning a QR code on the screen and using their smartphone as...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
NextSilicon bets on adaptive hardware to outrun traditional CPUs and GPUs
Posted on Friday October 24, 2025
NextSilicon, an Israeli startup backed by more than $300 million in funding, is advancing its challenge to the dominance of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD in high-performance computing. The company announced that its new line of chips, including the Maverick-2 Intelligent Compute Accelerator and a RISC-V-based CPU code-named Arbel, is being...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft wants Xbox to hit 30% margins, explaining price hikes and layoffs
Posted on Friday October 24, 2025
According to anonymous Bloomberg sources, Microsoft began demanding 30 percent profit margins across all divisions starting in 2023. This target far exceeds the video game industry's average. The aggressive demand forced the Xbox division to implement drastic policy changes in an attempt to meet it.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
This new AI fighter jet doesn't need pilots, runways, or GPS
Posted on Friday October 24, 2025
Shield AI revealed X-BAT this week, an autonomous VTOL fighter jet that it said can take off from islands and ships. "Airpower without runways is the holy grail of deterrence. It gives our forces persistence, reach, and survivability, and it buys diplomacy another day," said Brandon Tseng, Shield AI co-founder,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple hit with $2 billion payout in record UK class-action ruling
Posted on Thursday October 23, 2025
The United Kingdom's Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled that Apple abused its dominant position by imposing onerous commission fees on app developers, passing unnecessary costs onto consumers. As a result of the country's first mass-action lawsuit, the tech giant must pay up to £1.5 billion ($2.01 billion US).Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google Skills packs 3,000 tech courses into a gamified learning platform
Posted on Thursday October 23, 2025
Alphabet recently launched Google Skills, a digital learning platform aimed at building "essential" skills for the digital age. With much of Big Tech focused on monetizing generative AI services, the platform includes an extensive collection of AI-focused courses – but users can also choose from a wide variety of other topics.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode to rival OpenAI's Atlas browser
Posted on Thursday October 23, 2025
Copilot Mode in Edge turns the browser into an AI assistant that organizes sessions into "Journeys" and completes multi-step tasks like planning trips or managing subscriptions. With optional personalization via browsing history and a focus on privacy, Copilot Mode is clearly Microsoft's reaction to ChatGPT Atlas.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Software is the next battleground in the US-China tech war
Posted on Thursday October 23, 2025
The proposed curbs would apply to a wide range of consumer and industrial products, from laptops to jet engines powered by software from American companies. The news comes ahead of a critical round of trade negotiations between the two countries in Malaysia later this week.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft's Gaming Copilot automatically captures screenshots, but you can turn it off
Posted on Thursday October 23, 2025
Microsoft appears to be capturing large numbers of screenshots through Gaming Copilot, extracting text from them, and using the data to further train its AI models. A user recently discovered a potential breach of both privacy and trust related to the Copilot tool, which is now automatically installed on Windows...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Stranger Things will wrap up with series finale in theaters
Posted on Thursday October 23, 2025
The first season of Stranger Things premiered on July 15, 2016, and was an instant success. In the near decade that's since passed, fans have watched the cast transform from kids into literal adults as they battle the forces of evil from the Upside Down. The show has had its...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »