A new unconfirmed report claims that Saudi Arabia is planning to drastically reduce the size and scale of its Neom Megaproject, dubbed 'The Line,' a futuristic vision of a linear city that would have held 9 million people if realised. According to FT , Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is now planning something "far smaller," possibly an AI data
American factory worker Robert Williams became the first human to be killed by a robot on this day in 1979 — man crushed by a robot’s mechanical arm at the Ford plant in Flat Rock
Though killer robots are a favorite subject in science fiction, it is a shocking tragedy when humans are killed by robots in the real-world. Today marks the anniversary of what is widely regarded as the first case of a death of a human caused by a robot . On this day in 1979, Ford Motor Company factory worker
Suspicious DJI clones appear on the market after the FCC banned foreign-made drones — Xtra and Skyrover drones look awfully familiar
The FCC banned all new foreign-made drones from being registered in the U.S. in late 2025, dealing a major blow to Chinese manufacturers like DJI. The company would still be able to sell already existing models, especially as the Department of Commerce didn’t push through with its planned crackdown on Chinese drone imports .
Save $735 on Lenovo's Legion 5i gaming laptop with an OLED screen and RTX 5070 GPU — Get your hands on the perfect mobile companion for just $1,259
In these uncertain times, when a simple memory upgrade can become cause for bankruptcy, integrated devices like laptops have become even more enticing than before. Lenovo makes some of the best portable machines around, and they've got a new deal that's bound to turn heads. The excellent Legion 5i gaming laptop is on sale for
Researchers build a wireless transceiver that can transmit data at 15 gigabytes per second, 24 times faster than 5G connections — invention uses silicon chip that sends and receives analog signals fro
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have developed a transceiver that works in the 140 GHz range and can transmit data at up to 120 Gbps, that's about 15 gigabytes per second. By comparison, the fastest commercially available wireless technologies are theoretically limited to 30 Gbps (Wi-Fi 7) and 5
The Apple Mac turned 42 this weekend — we are still using the WIMP GUI WYSIWYG computing paradigm in 2026
A youthful Steve Jobs unveiled the original Apple Macintosh 42 years ago. Far more than just yet-another-PC launch, Jobs’ unveiling was a pivot point in the way that humans would interact with computers for work and play. It popularized the intuitive windows, icons, menus, and pointers (WIMP) model of computer interactivity.
ChatGPT found to be sourcing data from AI-generated content — popular LLM uses content from Grokipedia as source for more obscure queries
ChatGPT’s latest model, GPT-5.2, has been found to be sourcing data from Grokipedia, xAI’s all-AI-generated Wikipedia competitor. According to The Guardian , the AI LLM would sometimes use Elon Musk’s AI-generated online encyclopedia for uncommon topics like Iranian politics, and details about British historian Sir
HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 Wireless Review: 250-hour battery life and simultaneous dual-wireless connectivity
Tom's Hardware Verdict
The Cloud Alpha 2 is a very good successor to the Cloud Alpha — it still has excellent battery life (even if it's no longer quite as far ahead of the competition), is comfortable, and it has simultaneous dual-wireless connectivity. But if you're just looking for a great gaming headset, you can get similar audio and mic quality from HyperX's cheaper Cloud III headsets.
Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486's goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that
Modder turns RTX 2080 Ti Hall of Fame into a supercharged 900W Titan RTX with transplanted core and memory — fully unlocked TU102 die with a 900W power limit hits 18k on 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme
The RTX 2080 Ti HoF is one of the most powerful RTX 20 series graphics cards that exists, but the artificial core and memory bus limits on the TU102 core always meant that the hardware has extra untapped potential under the hood. Modder Jiachen Liu on X decided to remedy this issue