CNBC notes that ChatGPT's 40-percent usage boost includes customers from free, Plus Pro, Enterprise, Team, and Educational tiers. OpenAI marked the milestone with a post from Nick Turley, the company's vice president and head of ChatGPT, who framed the growth as a sign of broader momentum – not just for......
Free Download Manager is a powerful tool that helps you take control of your downloads
FDM is a fast, reliable tool for organizing and accelerating downloads. It supports BitTorrent, magnet links, and browser integration, with features like pause/resume, scheduling, and bandwidth control. The latest update adds a sleek UI, better performance, and improved add-on support, all for free. Read Entire Article
Users report unwanted Windows 11 upgrade offers on incompatible Windows 10 PCs
Microsoft has scheduled the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 for October 14, 2025, and that date is rapidly approaching. The company continues to offer a free upgrade to Windows 11, but it should theoretically be unavailable to customers with incompatible PCs. Yet some of those users report receiving...
Top AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to compete in public chess tournament
The inaugural tournament marks the launch of Kaggle's Game Arena, a new platform designed to test and compare the decision-making and reasoning skills of large language models across a variety of strategic games. Organized in collaboration with Google DeepMind, Chess.com, and chess streamers Hikaru Nakamura and Levy Rozman, the event......
In computing history, who were the “Dirty Dozen”?
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Researchers develop visual microphone that uses light instead of air to detect sound
The advance opens up possibilities for listening in environments where conventional microphones struggle – such as communicating through a glass window or monitoring sound in isolated spaces – without the need for direct transmission of sound. Read Entire Article
Elon Musk’s Grok AI gets “Spicy” mode so users can generate explicit videos
Elon Musk has long hailed Grok as being uncensored and having fewer boundaries than other AIs. So, it came as little surprise to see that the new Grok Imagine, xAI's image and video generator, has a dedicated option for creating sexualized content. Read Entire Article
Bolt Graphics claims 13x leap over Nvidia RTX 5090 with less wattage – and huge caveats
California-based startup Bolt Graphics recently revealed detailed specifications for its upcoming graphics cards, claiming they outperform the Nvidia RTX 5090 in path tracing workloads. While the Zeus lineup appears impressive on paper, several details raise red flags. Read Entire Article
MSI Claw benchmarked using AMD and Intel chips: Ryzen Z2 Extreme trumps Core Ultra 7 258V
Following the success of its Claw 8 AI+ console in 2024, MSI unveiled the Claw A8 handheld at Computex 2025. Early benchmarks from China-based reviewer Golden Pig Upgrade show a significant performance boost over the previous model, based on tests across 10 games at 1080p using 17W and 30W power......
What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion?
Was it IBM's Watson, Deep Blue, Cray Jaguar or Blue Gene? Read Entire Article