Day: December 22, 2025

IT market research and analytics firm IDC warns that PC sales could decline by as much as 8.9 percent next year if DRAM shortages worsen. Even under current conditions, the market is expected to contract another 4.9 percent, compared with an earlier forecast of a 2.4-percent drop in 2026. Read...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power outage. As a result, the Internet Time Services hosted at the campus are currently unable to provide an accurate time reference to external organizations......

Valve has begun rolling out the latest version of the Steam client, which users will receive the next time they launch the application. While the update includes several changes, the most consequential is the end of official support for 32-bit versions of Windows. Read Entire Article

Darktable is an open-source alternative to Adobe Lightroom. The latest release brings capture sharpening to the demosaic module to recover detail lost to in-camera blur, alongside a new AgX-based tone mapper inspired by Blender with film-like highlight roll-off and deeper control over contrast and exposure. Read Entire Article

The newly introduced platform fits into a single package and is designed to expand in space to a volume of 350 cubic meters – roughly a third the volume of the International Space Station (1,005 cubic meters). Read Entire Article

Atari first announced its partnership with GSD Group to build video game-themed Atari Hotels in the US five years ago. The first of these was supposed to open in late 2020, but as with many things, the pandemic put a major dent in the plans. Read Entire Article

Computer scientists at Cambridge University deployed the first ever webcam in 1991. Read Entire Article

Redditor Leading-Growth-8361 posted in the r/pcmasterrace subreddit that he bought some Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for his PC, but got a nasty surprise instead. Read Entire Article