Category: Hardware

AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with growing pains emerging along the way. That’s the takeaway from the latest survey of 49,000 professional developers by community and information hub StackOverflow, which itself…

Tim Cook sure knows how to sell an iPhone. Apple has been the target of a fair amount of criticism over the past year, from its AI missteps to a strong distaste for its new design ethos. But the numbers don’t lie, and if Apple knows how to do anything it’s sell iPhones. Specifically, three…

A 20-year-old man in China may be anxiously reassessing his chances of eternal damnation after the cross he had tattooed on his neck inexplicably vanished after five months and was replaced by an aggressive necrotic ulcer and grave inflammation. The case is so strange that doctors say it “expands the spectrum of tattoo-associated pathology.” In…

Are you on the hunt for new games but are tired of running out of options? Or are you someone who always takes advantage of free stuff? We don’t blame you. With increasing game prices and tariffs on the rise, you’ll want to save money whenever possible. Thankfully, there’s a place you can go where…

Microsoft on Thursday reached a $4 trillion market valuation, becoming the second company in history to do so, following Nvidia hitting the same milestone earlier in July. The achievement comes amid strong earnings for the fiscal 2025, soaring demand for cloud services, the company’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence, and the upcoming end of Windows…

Swipe to scroll horizontally CPU MSRP Architecture Cores / Threads (P+E) P-Core Base / Boost Clock (GHz) E-Core Base / Boost Clock (GHz) L3 Cache (MB) L2 Cache (MB) PBP / MTP (W) Memory Stepping Core Ultra 5 225 $236 – $246 Arrow Lake 10 / 10 (6+4) 3.3 / 4.9 2.7 / 4.4 20…

Move over, PCI Express 5.0! Micron has shipped the first PCI Express 6.0 SSD, ramping up read and write speeds to unprecedented levels. The bad news? It’s not for PCs. This week, Micron shipped the Micron 9650 SSD, the world’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, designed for AI training and inference workloads. Unfortunately, those tasks take…

A smart speaker makes for an easy first step into smart home technology. Before you kit out your house with thousands of dollars of lighting and security upgrades, you can familiarize yourself with voice-assistant technology while enjoying music, podcasts, and news in a hands-free home environment. Here are our top picks in several categories. If…

Epic has won again. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not overturn the unanimous jury verdict from 2023 that Google’s app store and payments system had become illegal monopolies. Today, that appeals court affirmed the lower court’s decision, according to an full opinion you can read below — and Google will now appeal to…