The US is throwing big money at rare-earth tech, taking on China’s dominance with new chemistry

Rare-earth elements are embedded deep within much of today's hardware stack, but the real bottleneck is no longer geological reserves – it is the industrial circuitry that converts ore and scrap into high-purity oxides and finished magnets. Smartphones, high-torque electric-vehicle motors, direct-drive wind turbines, and advanced medical imaging all rely......

Steam is now a billion-dollar side business for PlayStation

Until recently, Sony had largely treated Steam as a secondary outlet for older PlayStation titles, primarily single-player games that had already maximized their sales on console. But if Valve releases mainstream hardware that runs Steam natively and becomes a viable home for PlayStation Studios releases, Sony's PC strategy could be......

Tencent isn’t buying Ubisoft, Ubisoft isn’t collapsing, and Assassin’s Creed is doing all the heavy lifting

Contrary to prior speculation, Tencent is neither fully acquiring Ubisoft nor exiting the companies' existing $1.25 billion agreement. During an earnings call following the delayed release of the H1 2025 – 2026 report, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot explained that the postponement occurred because the company's new auditors changed its fiscal...