In context: Chris Seedor didn't set out to build a company focused on bitcoin security. In fact, when he first got his hands on the cryptocurrency, he saw little reason to use it. Now, he's trying to solve one of its biggest challenges: how to securely store bitcoin for people who choose to hold it themselves.

His journey began in 2011, when a friend handed

Something to look forward to: Advanced rendering features such as ray tracing, Unreal MegaLights, and neural supersampling are primarily associated with Nvidia's PC graphics cards. But Arm recently revealed that these technologies are coming to new Android mobile devices later this year. A short game from Sumo Digital demonstrates how the latest phones and tablets can handle ray tracing at playable framerates with AI-based upscaling.

Sumo Digital's upcoming Neural

Does AI Float?: The need for massive infrastructure to store digital data is growing, so tech giants are trying some novel approaches. Samsung's shipbuilding division, for example, would like to move AI data centers away from the mainland and out to sea.

Hitachi recently announced a partnership with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to develop floating systems to host self-sustaining AI data center facilities. Now,

Forward-looking: Researchers are developing a device that wouldn't look out of place the planet of Arrakis, also known as Dune: a jacket that harvests drinking water directly from the ambient air, offering a real-world spin on the sci-fi stillsuit fantasy.

The creation comes from engineers at the University of Texas at Austin , who have developed textile fibers for atmospheric water harvesting – the process of collecting moisture

Looking ahead: Intel is approaching the budget laptop market from a different angle, focusing less on raw performance and more on how these machines are put together. The company's new Project Firefly initiative is built around that idea. Instead of focusing solely on chips, Intel is trying to standardize the entire laptop design process, pairing its Wildcat Lake processors with a common hardware design that laptop makers can use as is or modify

WTF?! AMD has patched a remote code execution vulnerability in its auto-updater software, but there's a lot more to this story. The company is facing a slew of criticism over how it handled the researcher who reported it. Team Red first dismissed the bug as "out of scope," then asked him to stay quiet, then changed its rules after the fact to make that silence a requirement.

What we know so far: Apple CEOs Steve Jobs and Tim Cook had long opposed touchscreen controls for Macs, but recent reports and updates have hinted that the capability is on the horizon. With an M6-powered MacBook Pro expected to emerge later this year, a new macOS 27 feature might have finally confirmed touchscreen support.

Prominent tipster Instant Digital recently stated that he is "100%" certain the

Editor's take: Much like the Call of Duty series and pornography, generative AI is one of those things that's incredibly popular despite a lot of people claiming to dislike it. ChatGPT, for example, has just reached one billion monthly app users, just 3.5 years after it launched in November 2022.

Market intelligence firm Sensor Tower reports that ChatGPT has become the fastest app ever to

The big picture: Microsoft is easing one of the strict lines it previously drew around Copilot+ PCs, allowing more Windows 11 machines to run local AI workloads with the right GPU. An update shows that systems equipped with Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs or newer, with at least 6GB of VRAM, can now support Windows' local language model APIs. On paper, it's a small, developer