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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 »
Epic Games Store keeps growing, but third-party game revenue tells another story
Posted on Saturday January 10, 2026
A chart recently shared on social media shows that spending on third-party games on the Epic Games Store grew by just 1.6% between 2019 and 2024. The data, drawn from Epic's annual review blog posts (see below), reveals that revenue climbed steadily until 2022 before reversing course and falling back...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
These paper batteries made from plants want to replace AA and AAA cells
Posted on Friday January 09, 2026
At this year's show, Flint wasn't showing off just lab prototypes. The batteries running toy trains at its booth were production-grade AA and AAA cells made from plant-based materials, not the metal-heavy chemistries that dominate today's market. Flint says those alkaline-style replacements are slated to reach consumers later in 2026,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Astronomers watch a star being torn to pieces by a supermassive black hole
Posted on Friday January 09, 2026
A team of researchers recently reported the discovery of AT2024wpp, an extremely energetic event involving a black hole and a massive star locked in a deadly cosmic dance. The stellar object was "spaghettified" by the black hole, a tidal disruption event that released an amount of energy equivalent to 400...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »