Robotaxis can drive themselves, but still pay humans $20 to close the door

TL;DR: For all the talk of self-driving cars erasing human labor, hundreds of Waymo vehicles across LA and San Francisco are proving the opposite. The company's robotaxis depend on people – some paid through a towing app called Honk, others working behind computer screens – to handle simple physical tasks that the machines can't manage on their own.

The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?

Google is finally letting you change that embarrassing old Gmail address

Ten former Samsung employees charged over DRAM technology leak to China

AI data centers may run on nuclear reactors from retired Navy aircraft carriers and submarines

Magnetic cloaking is moving from theory to real-world engineering

This Windows registry hack can boost NVMe SSD performance by up to 80%, but there's a catch

In a nutshell: Microsoft recently updated Windows Server 2025 with a native NVMe driver that can significantly increase SSD performance. While the new driver is not officially available for consumer versions of Windows, enterprising developers have seemingly found a neat registry hack to enable it in Windows 11, potentially boosting NVMe SSD performance by up to 80 percent.

Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M magnetic tape dates back to 1973 and contains roughly 40 megabytes of data – the earliest surviving Unix release in which both the kernel and core utilities were written in C.

Intel's Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs spotted with up to 86 cores, 336MB cache, and $9,300 pricing

Missile-grade magnets at risk as China tightens grip on rare earths

The global robotaxi rollout is accelerating faster than expected

Star Citizen's single-player spin-off is now playable start to finish, still set for 2026

Microsoft wants to fix BitLocker's slowdown with hardware acceleration

Why some video games improve brain function – and others don't

Connecting the dots: Far from being a mindless escape, video games help the brain process information more efficiently and adapt more readily to complex tasks, according to a growing body of research. The emerging evidence suggests that the type of game and how it taxes the brain's systems are key to whether playing strengthens cognition – or simply consumes time.

AMD Zen 6 and Intel Nova Lake could clash with massive 288 MB 3D V-Cache designs

Samsung's next Odyssey monitors push refresh rates to 1,024Hz

Maingear responds to DDR5 crisis with bring-your-own RAM program

Android's Bluetooth car audio problem has gone unfixed for over a year

Two-year preservation project recovers 144 lost ROMs from the Sega Channel streaming service

Gigabyte removes leaking thermal paste from RTX 5000 GPUs, replaces it with thermal pads

Trump wants to bring Japan's tiny kei cars to US roadways

Switch into savings: Nintendo's holiday game sale is here