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FCC approves SpaceX plan to launch 7,500 more Gen2 Starlink satellites
Posted on Monday January 12, 2026
The approval is a major win for SpaceX, even though it falls short of the company's original request to deploy nearly 30,000 satellites. The green light allows Starlink to significantly expand its next-gen network, which is designed to deliver faster speeds, lower latency, and greater overall capacity compared to the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google removes AI Overviews from some medical searches after experts warn of risks to users' health
Posted on Monday January 12, 2026
The Guardian reported at the start of January that AI Overviews, which are supposed to provide AI-generated summaries of search results, were putting people at risk by offering misleading health advice.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD RDNA 5 GPUs may launch after Nvidia's RTX 6000 series in late 2027
Posted on Monday January 12, 2026
It's not a good time for anyone building a PC. Massive demand from AI companies and data center builders has led to DRAM, NAND, and HBM manufacturing capacity being sold out in advance. It's also affecting graphics cards because GDDR memory shares manufacturing capacity with other types of DRAM and...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
GameStop is closing hundreds of stores as the physical game era fades
Posted on Sunday January 11, 2026
Like many brick-and-mortar video game stores, GameStop has struggled as the number of buyers opting for physical games over digital downloads keeps shrinking. Its stores have been closing and worker numbers declining for years now.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Elon Musk promises to open-source X's algorithm in the next few days
Posted on Sunday January 11, 2026
The announcement marks the latest in a string of commitments from Musk to open-source the technology behind X's recommendation engine. Previous promises, however, have seen uneven follow-through. The company's last significant algorithm release dates back to 2023, when a repository appeared on GitHub showing portions of the platform's feed-ranking logic....Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
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 »