BYD showcased the new platform during its Disruptive Technology event on Thursday. According to the automaker, the Flash charger is able to take the battery from 10% to 70% in just five minutes and from 10% to 97% in only nine minutes when at room temperature. In extreme cold (-30......
Call of Duty co-founder claims Activision pushed to make a game about Iran invading Israel
Glasco, a co-founding developer of both Infinity Ward and the Call of Duty franchise, now works as a consultant in the video game industry. He shared his recollection of Activision's pressure on social media, joining an ongoing discussion about the unusually blunt way the Trump administration is embedding video game......
Tinder settles age discrimination lawsuit for $60 million, see if you qualify for a payout
According to the plaintiff, Tinder charged users aged 29 and older more for premium subscriptions such as Tinder Plus and Tinder Gold, while offering cheaper rates for the same services to users in their teens and 20s. The lawsuit claimed the tiered pricing model violated multiple California laws, including the......
Seagate is now shipping HAMR disk drives holding up to 44TB of data
Seagate introduced the Mozaic 3+ platform in 2024, turning the heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) dream into a real product for customers in need of massive storage capacities. The HDD maker is now introducing the next-generation Mozaic 4+ drives, which offer capacities up to 44TB. Read Entire Article
London doctor carries out remote robot surgery on cancer patient 1,500 miles away
The milestone procedure saw Professor Prokar Dasgupta, based at The London Clinic's robotic center in Harley Street, operate on 62-year-old patient Paul Buxton, who was in St Bernard's Hospital in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory in southern Spain. Read Entire Article
TCL unveils 4K 240Hz OLED dual-mode monitor that’s just 6.4mm thick
The recently unveiled 32X3A is a 31.5-inch display that can switch between 4K at 240Hz and 480Hz at a lower resolution, likely 1080p, with a grayscale response time of 0.03 milliseconds. According to ITHome, the OLED display covers 99% of the sRGB and DCI-P3 color gamuts. Anti-glare and anti-reflective coating......
GTA Online players in Australia will soon face age checks under new R18+ gaming rules
The requirement states that search engines, social media platforms, pornographic websites, app stores, gaming providers, and generative AI systems – including explicit chatbots – must take "meaningful steps" to prevent children from being exposed to age-inappropriate content. Read Entire Article
Epic beat Google in court, but Tim Sweeney can’t criticize Play Store policies until 2032
The revelation came this week, when the binding term sheet for Epic's settlement with Google showed that Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, once the industry's most vivid critic of platform monopolies, is bound by a non-disparagement clause that bars him from publicly criticizing Google on matters related to Play Store distribution......
Anthropic says it will sue Pentagon over supply chain risk label
The clash centers on two red lines Anthropic refused to drop during negotiations with the Department of Defense: using Claude for mass domestic surveillance of Americans and for fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic says those carveouts are narrow, reasonable, and have not affected any government mission to date. The Pentagon disagreed....
The OLED Burn-In Test: Two Years Later
After 6,500 hours of heavy productivity use, we revisit our intentionally abused 4K QD-OLED monitor to see how burn-in has progressed under one of the worst-case scenarios for OLED panels. Read Entire Article