AMD and Meta have signed what they describe as a "strategic" partnership aimed at expanding large-scale computing capacity and continuing to bankroll Mark Zuckerberg's long-running AGI ambitions. Central to the deal is a massive 6 gigawatts of total GPU capacity, which AMD will deploy in custom-built data center racks for...

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YouTube said the changes were based on user feedback, noting that the additional features would make Premium Lite more attractive to people currently using the free service. They are already available to Lite users in the US and will be gradually rolled out to all eligible subscribers worldwide over the...

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Rather than halting the simulation, Sony's design keeps the game active while shifting it into a lower-intensity state. The patent describes scenarios in which time may slow down, enemy pressure may decrease, and assistance systems may quietly become more active, allowing players to glance at messages or notifications without losing...

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TSMC's vast complex outside Phoenix is central to that effort. The 2,000-acre site is slated to host six fabrication plants along with supporting infrastructure. Apple is positioning itself as the anchor customer: the company plans to purchase more than 100 million chips from TSMC's Arizona facilities this year.

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Uber is positioning itself as the booking layer. Joby supplies the aircraft and, eventually, the operations. The preview suggests that the companies believe they're close enough to a working air service to start showing off the booking system. If air taxis are going to work at scale, the first challenge...

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The Android app, Nearby Glasses, comes from Swiss sociologist and hobbyist coder Yves Jeanrenaud. It scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) activity associated with manufacturers such as Meta, Luxottica Group, and Snap – companies behind the most recognizable smart glasses on the market – and issues an alert if it...

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The term vibe coding is often used when developers rely heavily on AI tools to generate, modify, and refine code. The name comes from steering development by vibes while AI does much of the coding.

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At first glance, QUOD is a typical Quake-inspired boomer shooter. Its four levels exhibit low-poly graphics from the mid-1990s, a handful of enemy and weapon types, id Software-style level design, and moody lighting. However, the entire game is contained within a single 64KB executable. The uncompressed version expands to a...

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The warnings, reinforced by recent Chinese live-fire drills around Taiwan and a classified industry report projecting an economic shock on the scale of the Great Depression if Taiwan's chip supply is cut, have turned a once-abstract geopolitical worry into a direct threat to US growth. Yet for years, major US...

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Apple has long taken the stance that touchscreens and laptops don't go together – Cupertino will happily point you toward its iPad line for that sort of thing. But it seems that the company has finally changed its tune.

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