Day: October 20, 2025

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed an $8.5 billion critical minerals agreement Monday to secure materials vital for semiconductors, electric vehicles, and defense technologies. TechCrunch notes that the deal includes a $3 billion investment from both governments over the next six months, forming part of a......

Just in time for the end of Windows 10 mainstream support, Akihabara stores are quickly running out of optical PC drives. Hardware retailers in the Tokyo district that never sleeps are experiencing what appears to be a rush to purchase new drives, with Microsoft's decision to abandon Windows 10 cited......

In an interview with Variety, Bond categorically denied rumors that Microsoft is exiting the console market. She told the publication that "our next-gen hardware (is) in development," noting that the devices are currently in the design and prototyping stages. Read Entire Article

Nintendo took a cautious approach with the console's launch, and rightfully so. The video game crash of 1983 was fresh on everyone's mind and the industry's future was still very much uncertain. In fact, that's one of the reasons Nintendo named the console an entertainment system and not a gaming......

Integrated graphics existed long before they lived on the CPU – which chip finally merged the two? Read Entire Article

According to a recent report from SemiAccurate, Microsoft has chosen Intel Foundry to manufacture its Maia 3 AI chip. The machine learning accelerator, code-named Griffin, is expected to play a major role in Redmond's plans to develop new generations of self-sustaining data centers. Read Entire Article

The downlink activity was first detected not by a government agency, but by Scott Tilley, an amateur satellite tracker in British Columbia known for uncovering signals from secretive spacecraft. Tilley says the emissions appear to originate from Starshield satellites and may pose a risk of interference with other systems operating......

Two decades after electric vehicles began reshaping ground transportation, a new category of electric aircraft is beginning to change perceptions of personal flight. These machines, known as ultralight eVTOLs – short for electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles – can take off, fly, and land using electric propulsion without relying......

When ChatGPT first started to spread across the world, companies using generative AI tools were very cautious when discussing the potential for job losses. Some firms avoided the topic altogether, while others insisted that the technology wasn't a factor in their announced cuts. Read Entire Article