Guinness World Records has once again recognized Tomb Raider and its protagonist, Lara Croft. According to the British organization, the adventurer is now officially the best-selling video game heroine in the world. Croft has also appeared on more magazine covers than any other video game character. Read Entire Article
File Converter lets you do quick file conversions in Windows, with two clicks
File Converter is a simple utility that integrates directly into the Windows context menu, letting you convert files with a single right-click. It supports a wide range of audio, video, image, and document formats, offering outputs like MP3, MP4, GIF, WebP, PNG, and PDF. Read Entire Article
IPv4 scarcity triggers dispute over who controls African internet address space
Lu grew up in the Chinese fishing village of Shipu and moved from selling online game time cards in college to running an internet service firm in the Netherlands, where he learned how IP addresses underpin connectivity. Read Entire Article
Netflix no longer lets you cast content from your phone
Netflix has quietly posted a page on its Help Cente section explaining why people can no longer find the Cast button in the Netflix app. Read Entire Article
New nanotech generator could replace batteries in tiny devices
The researchers set out to explore whether simple ingredients – silicon and water – could be arranged so that mechanical pressure and fluid motion could serve as a reliable electrical source rather than wasted energy. Their answer is a triboelectric generator built around nanostructured silicon that uses water flow through......
Alibaba and ByteDance are moving AI training offshore to bypass China chip bans
Alibaba and ByteDance are among the companies routing training jobs for their latest large language models to data centers in countries such as Singapore and Malaysia, according to The Financial Times, citing people with direct knowledge of the deployments. These sources say there has been a steady shift toward offshore......
Google’s CEO says “vibe coding” is reshaping who gets to write code
Pichai made the comments on a Google for Developers podcast with Logan Kilpatrick, who runs Google's AI Studio. The CEO said tools built on large language models are making coding "more enjoyable" and "approachable" because people can test ideas for apps and websites without wrestling with syntax or frameworks first.......
This Black Friday belonged to the internet (and your phone)
By 6:30 pm Eastern on Black Friday, online spending was running 9.4% ahead of the same point a year earlier, already surpassing Adobe's earlier forecast of 8.3% growth for the whole day. Its updated estimate of $11.7 billion to $11.9 billion in total Black Friday e-commerce would set a new......
The original 1976 contract that founded Apple is heading to auction
Drafted on April 1, 1976, the foundational contract laid out the initial ownership split: Jobs and Wozniak would each hold 45 percent, while Wayne would receive a 10 percent stake. Read Entire Article
President Macron accuses US of undermining EU investigations into Big Tech
At a town hall in France's Vosges region on Friday, Macron said some Digital Services Act cases targeting large online platforms have been sitting at the European Commission for about two years, a timeline he described as far too long for rules that were sold as a sharp break from......