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...
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. Read Entire Article
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......
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......
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....
Nvidia showcases Vera Rubin AI “Superchip” with 88 CPU cores and 100 PetaFLOPS of FP4 compute
The new hardware was unveiled this week at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington by co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The Vera Rubin platform features a single "Vera" CPU with 88 custom Arm cores and 176 threads, alongside two "Rubin" GPUs, delivering up to 100 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute...
Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats
Google announced the end of support for early Nest Thermostats in a support document earlier this year that largely flew under the radar. As of October 25, first and second generation units released in 2011 and 2012, respectively, will be unpaired and removed from the Google Nest or Google Home...
China finally approves TikTok transfer deal, seemingly ending long-running US dispute
Following President Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kuala Lumpur, Bessent told Fox Business Network, "we finalized the TikTok agreement in terms of getting Chinese approval, and I would expect that would go forward in the coming weeks and months, and we'll finally see a resolution to that."...
NZXT accused of running a racketeering scheme with its PC Flex subscription program
NZXT's controversial Flex program is finally headed to court. The Burns v. Fragile, Inc. lawsuit tasks federal prosecutors with investigating both the US-based manufacturer and its business partner, Fragile, after numerous user reports accused Flex of being a fraudulent operation designed to oversell an inferior service and substandard hardware components....
You won’t need a monster PC to run Resident Evil Requiem
Scheduled to launch on February 27, 2026, Resident Evil Requiem's PC requirements have now been confirmed. Minimum specs ask for just an Intel Core i5-8500 or Ryzen 3500 combined with a GTX 1660 or Radeon RX 5500 XT. Read Entire Article