Apple says new Siri with advanced AI features will finally launch in March 2026
The forthcoming version of Siri will mark Apple's most significant update to its digital assistant in years. Originally unveiled during the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2024, the rollout of the new features was later postponed in March due to technical challenges and integration delays.
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Ads are coming for your lock screen, and Nothing is leading the way
Nothing recently began testing lock screen ads in the Nothing OS 4.0 open beta. Although the company claims that it needs the revenue to survive as a small player in the highly competitive smartphone market, it is easy to see the change as the start of a slippery slope.
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Amazon layoffs: Andy Jassy says cutting 14,000 jobs is about "culture," not AI or finances
It was reported earlier this week that Amazon was to lay off up to 30,000 corporate staff. According to Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, the decision was designed to counter the massive overhiring spree Amazon undertook during the pandemic years.
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Tesla's Robotaxis are already crashing in Austin, data points to gaps in self-driving system
Tesla's autonomous vehicle program is facing fresh scrutiny following a series of crashes involving the company's new Robotaxi fleet in Austin, Texas – an early test market for what Tesla hopes will become its driverless transportation network.
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Asus launches the world's first gaming router with built-in AI and native Docker support for $899
Companies love to pack AI into their devices these days, for better or for worse. Asus says that the ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI is the first gaming router to include this functionality.
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Porting the Windows 95 interface to Windows NT was a complex back-and-forth process
Windows 95 is 30 years old, and Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen continues sharing interesting tidbits about how the iconic operating system came together. Developing Windows 95 was a complex, time-pressured endeavor, but things got even trickier when Microsoft engineers began figuring out how to port the brand-new user interface to Windows NT.
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Canva merges Affinity suite into a single free desktop app
Canva has launched a new unified Affinity application that combines the previously separate Designer, Photo, and Publisher tools into one platform. The app offers a complete suite of professional features for vector design, image editing, and desktop publishing, now available free of charge.
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Google is reviving a nuclear power plant that has sat idle for the last five years
Google has partnered with NextEra Energy to revive Iowa's only nuclear power plant – the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, near Cedar Rapids. The effort aims to provide reliable, carbon-free energy in the region to meet surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence. The companies plan to reopen the...
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Creative revives iconic Sound Blaster brand with modular audio hub
At the heart of the Re:Imagine is an octa-core Arm-based SoC paired with 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 16GB of eMMC flash storage. There's also a 6-TOPS neural processing unit and a studio-grade DAC and amp that delivers high-resolution playback up to 32-bit / 384 kHz with the ability to...
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Italian software company Bending Spoons is the new owner of AOL
Italian tech conglomerate Bending Spoons has completed an acquisition of AOL from Yahoo following a new $2.8 billion debt-financing round. The company did not disclose the purchase price, noting that part of the funding will support future operations. Still, AOL's new owner is positioning itself as the brand's final home.
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