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Get ready. GamesBeat Summit 2025 will take place on May 19 to May 20 at the Marriott Marina del Rey in Los Angeles.Read More

After NASA’s Space Shuttles were retired in 2010, they were eventually sent to museums in Florida, California, New York, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. But Texas Republicans are not happy that the Lone Star state didn’t get one, given its historic significance to space travel. And they’ve introduced legislation to … Read more

With the UK targeting a new frontier in circular manufacturing, a powerful combination of AM and AI will be vital in linking everything together on our journey to Net Zero, writes Julien Vaissieres of Batch.Works It feels as if we’ve reached a critical juncture for manufacturing, one where traditional moulds and traditional mindsets no longer … Read more

Google Cloud Ironwood TPU on a rack. (Source: Google Cloud) Google Cloud is gearing up for the agentic AI era in a big way, and its showing off its new wares this week at its NEXT conference. The company unveiled a slew of new AI models and new software for developing and managing AI agents, … Read more

Low Power-High Performance SPONSOR BLOG Boot-up and software deployment in distributed, synchronized multi-processor systems that integrate additional accelerators. Chiplets are a key topic in the semiconductor industry today, as they offer the potential to greatly increase the performance and flexibility of chips. The current focus is primarily on implementation, in particular on the architecture and … Read more

As a teenager, Bradley Rothenberg was obsessed with CAD: computer-aided design software. Before he turned 30, Rothenberg channeled that interest into building a startup, nTop, which today offers product developers — across vastly different industries — fast, highly iterative tools that help them model and create innovative, often deeply unorthodox designs. One of Rothenberg’s key … Read more

Microsoft has unveiled the first public preview of Windows Recall, a long-awaited feature enabling users to revisit their screen activity through AI-driven search tools. It is exclusively available to participants in the Windows Insider Dev Channel using Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. Windows Recall marks a significant milestone for Microsoft in integrating artificial … Read more

It’s Half-Life 2 week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary of the release of Half-Life 2—a game of historical importance for the artistic medium and technology of computer games. Each day up through the 16th, we’ll be running a new article looking back at the game and its impact. “Well, I just hate … Read more

On today’s You Asked: Is the Hisense 110 UX really the brightest TV ever made? How do you make sure your TV is doing the upscaling rather than your Blu-ray player? And – the big one this week – do older TVs like CRT and Plasma TVs actually have better color than modern TVs? Is … Read more

Chapter 2 Remix is debuting in Fortnite Battle Royale, ushered in by a music event in real life in Times Square and an in-game prelude as well. The music event featured Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ice Spice and the late Juice WRLD. The event is taking the global entertainment chops of Fortnite to a new level, … Read more