The Web Industry The big three cloud providers, Amazon, Microsoft and Google currently make up 67% of the market AI services and enterprise spending are pushing strongest growth since 2022 By Alfonso Maruccia, May 6, 2024, 8:41 AM
Industry AI 40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners AI audiobooks have invited backlash from narrators By Zo Ahmed, May 6, 2024, 8:11 AM
Industry Google DOJ alleges Google destroyed hundreds of thousands of chats as antitrust case winds down The search giant's antitrust troubles are anything but over By Zo Ahmed, May 5, 2024, 3:22 PM
Hardware Industry Samsung taps AI to design first 3nm mobile processor with Synopsys Exynos chips could get a whole lot better By Zo Ahmed, May 4, 2024, 10:34 AM
Hardware Industry AMD writes blog on 55 years of innovation at the company, mentions "AI" 23 times Focusing more on the last few years By Rob Thubron, May 3, 2024, 10:22 AM 12 comments
Electronics Hardware No reprieve for PC builders as skyrocketing metal prices set to impact component costs Brace for jacked-up PC prices By Zo Ahmed, May 3, 2024, 6:15 AM 10 comments
Gaming Industry Hasbro is investing $1 billion to make video games in house An ambitious development strategy for the company's next 100 years By Alfonso Maruccia, May 2, 2024, 2:47 PM 14 comments
Hardware Industry New CopprLink standard extends PCIe reach over wire for 64GT/s connections CopprLink for PCIe 7.0 technology at 128.0 GT/s is also in the works By Zo Ahmed, May 2, 2024, 1:27 PM
Industry The Web Satellite giants SES and Intelsat to merge in $3.1 billion deal When in doubt, merge it out - that's the satellite sector's new playbook for fending off Starlink By Zo Ahmed, May 2, 2024, 10:22 AM
Industry Intel's 18A Panther Lake CPUs on track to launch in mid-2025, promising significant AI boost The chipmaker wants to move through five new process nodes in just four years By Zo Ahmed, May 2, 2024, 9:35 AM
Hardware Industry AMD's gaming revenue plunges 48% and might not recover until 2025 Fortunately, AMD has Zen 5 and Strix Point to look forward to later this year By Shawn Knight, May 2, 2024, 6:14 AM 17 comments
Industry Google Ex-Google staff claim terminations over Israeli contract protest were illegal One fired worker says he wasn't even involved By Rob Thubron, May 1, 2024, 11:03 AM 15 comments
Industry AI Samsung on cloud nine after 933% Q1 profit jump, thanks to AI wave The generative AI craze brought about a surge in memory chip prices, benefiting Samsung By Zo Ahmed, May 1, 2024, 9:40 AM
Car Tech Industry Tesla lays off entire Supercharger and new vehicles teams, weeks after previous cuts Elon Musk is going "hard core" By Rob Thubron, May 1, 2024, 5:16 AM 16 comments
Industry AI Apple poached three dozen Google experts to open a secret AI lab in Zurich Former Google AI head now leads Apple's Machine Learning and AI Strategy division By Cal Jeffrey, April 30, 2024, 1:38 PM
Industry Google Despite soaring profits, Google lays off more staff, including Python and Flutter engineers The Python, Dart, and Flutter teams have been impacted By Rob Thubron, April 30, 2024, 8:59 AM 19 comments
Mobile Industry FCC slaps top telecom companies with $200 million in fines for selling user location data AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint continued to sell data even after warnings By Zo Ahmed, April 30, 2024, 7:43 AM 8 comments
Gaming Industry Manor Lords achieves Steam's most successful city builder launch ever One million in sales and 170,000 concurrent players on day one, more than any other city builder on Steam By Daniel Sims, April 29, 2024, 5:16 PM 10 comments
Hardware Industry Raspberry Pi adding new memory options to its compact Compute Module 4S boards Greater computing power and more memory for industrial applications By Alfonso Maruccia, April 29, 2024, 1:56 PM
Science Electronics Battery costs have plummeted by 90% in less than 15 years, turbocharging renewable energy shift Predicting a sixfold increase in global energy storage capacity by 2030 By Zo Ahmed, April 29, 2024, 1:24 PM 36 comments
Electronics Industry Desert land in India to host renewable energy park 5 times bigger than Paris Ironically, it's being built by a coal billionaire By Zo Ahmed, April 29, 2024, 10:33 AM 28 comments
Industry The Web FTC accuses Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Jassy of using auto-deleting messages to obstruct antitrust case Amazon denies the claims By Rob Thubron, April 29, 2024, 9:15 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC lays out roadmap for massive, kilowatt-class chip packages and terabit optical links The company's solutions could use up to a whopping 120x120mm substrate in 2027 By Zo Ahmed, April 29, 2024, 8:09 AM
Hardware Industry The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects About half of the $39 billion in Chips Act incentives has been spent By Erika Morphy, April 28, 2024, 10:34 AM 15 comments
Hardware Industry China's Loongson claims its latest CPUs are a match for Intel's 10th-gen in single-core performance The new 3B6600 and 3B7000 chips narrow the performance gap with Intel and AMD offerings By Zo Ahmed, April 28, 2024, 9:07 AM 18 comments