Title race leader first in qualifying ahead of Verstappen Hamilton woes continue with last-place finish for Ferrari Lando Norris claimed pole position for McLaren at the Las Vegas Grand Prix with a superb lap in treacherous wet conditions on the street circuit in Nevada, and with it moved one step...
Beating Pumas could open pivotal chapter in England’s 2027 World Cup story
Defeat of Argentina in 2000 was important stepping stone for Clive Woodward’s side on way to winning ultimate prize It is exactly 25 years since the most fraught pre-match buildup in the history of English international rugby union. In this same week in November 2000 a pay row led to...
Federal authorities take down criminal network smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
Federal prosecutors have charged four individuals for allegedly orchestrating a GPU smuggling operation from the United States to China. The group, consisting of two Americans and two Chinese nationals, is accused of exporting "hundreds" of Nvidia GPUs, providing significant AI acceleration capabilities to Chinese companies. Read Entire Article
Google’s Nano Banana Pro model makes AI images sharper, cleaner, and far more real
Nano Banana Pro is engineered to deliver what earlier AI image generators often struggled with: consistent accuracy in both image creation and editing, even with complex prompts. Whereas first-generation models like Gemini 2.5 Flash Image sometimes stumbled on nuanced instructions, the new model translates detailed text inputs into visuals with......
Dell and HP turned off HEVC decoding on recent laptops without telling anyone
Users on various forums have been troubleshooting video playback errors on newer Dell and HP laptops over the past few weeks. While the specific issues vary, recent software decisions by both OEMs appear to be the root cause in all cases. Read Entire Article
Intel confirms Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” CPUs will debut at CES on January 5th
Panther Lake processors will employ a five-tile architecture, comprising Cougar Cove performance cores, Darkmont and Skymont efficiency cores, an Xe3 Celestial integrated GPU, and a 5th-generation NPU for on-device AI acceleration. The lineup will introduce Intel's new Core Ultra X branding, with the flagship model designated as Core Ultra 9....
Microsoft open-sources the original Zork trilogy, unlocking a huge piece of gaming history
Microsoft recently introduced its latest effort in digital game preservation by making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT license. Turning the main Zork trilogy into an open source project will make sure students, teachers, and developers can study the original code, play the games, and......
GeForce Now Fast Pass turns budget Chromebooks into capable cloud gaming machines
GeForce Now Fast Pass mirrors much of the functionality found in Nvidia's existing free tier. It gives users access to more than 2,000 "Ready to Play" games that can be streamed directly from their existing Steam, Epic Games Store, or Xbox accounts. Read Entire Article
YouTube dominates, X stalls, Snapchat drops: survey reveals US social media preferences
The Pew Research Center's latest Americans' Social Media Use report shows that YouTube remains the most widely used "online platform," which seems like Pew's preferred term for the video-sharing site – the argument over whether YouTube should be classed as a social media company has raged for years. Read Entire...
The age of household robots might finally be here: Meet Memo
In a Mountain View kitchen, a wheeled robot named Memo methodically prepares an espresso, illustrating the technical progress underway at Sunday Robotics. The machine, roughly the size of a compact dishwasher, features two articulated arms with pincer-like grippers, a height-adjustable central column, and a display that mimics a cartoon face......