Nvidia Profile Inspector lets you view and edit hidden driver profiles and settings. Version 3.0 delivers its biggest update in years with a redesigned interface, faster profile browsing, and support for newer features including DLSS overrides and RTX Dynamic Vibrance. Read Entire Article
Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography – and rejecting the algorithm along with it
It wasn't too long ago that analog photography – which uses photographic film and chemical processing – was declared all but dead, relegated to the province of niche hobbyists and professional artists. Read Entire Article
Intel Nova Lake-S midrange CPUs could be bringing AMD’s X3D cache trick to more affordable chips
According to the post, each processor combines 6 "Coyote Cove" P-cores, 12 "Arctic Wolf" E-cores, and 4 LP-E cores. That mix suggests a design that balances compute throughput with background and low-power tasks, rather than just piling on more performance cores. Read Entire Article
Bending Spoons bought Vimeo, Evernote, and AOL instead of chasing AI, it just had a $25.7 billion IPO
The Milan-based firm raised $1.68 billion in its Nasdaq debut this week, with shares climbing 40% above the IPO price. The stock closed at $40.50, up from $29, giving the company a market value of about $25.7 billion. That's a significant jump from roughly $14.5 billion in 2025, following a......
Google is testing a webcam CAPTCHA that scans your hand, but it’s already been bypassed using a photo
Google is working on a new kind of challenge to improve its reCAPTCHA system, using biometric identification to confirm that the user is indeed human. The new method is officially named "hand gesture verification" (HGV), and, according to early testing, is mostly useless. Even worse, HGV might pose a significant......
Microsoft’s new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens
Microsoft said nearly 40% of its pretax income was booked in Ireland, even though only about 3% of its global workforce is based in the country. In Germany, by contrast, the company reported less than half of 1% of its global profits. Across Europe as a whole, excluding Ireland, Microsoft......
Lenovo laptops are now shipping with YMTC SSDs, a sign of Chinese NAND entering the mainstream
Notebookcheck says this is the first YMTC laptop SSD it has tested and reports that the ThinkBook uses a 512GB M.2 2242 PCIe 4.0 drive, according to its teardown and performance testing. The ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL is a 14-inch office notebook built around Intel Core Ultra 200-series processors. It......
The US now has three microreactors running – and data centers are watching closely
Unity, a microreactor from Houston-based Deployable Energy, is the latest of the three to reach criticality as part of a Department of Energy effort to accelerate advanced nuclear demonstrations. A reactor from Torrance-based Antares and another from El Segundo-based Valar Atomics cleared the same hurdle in June. Read Entire Article
SpaceX is reportedly showing investors a phone prototype, months after Musk said “we are not developing a phone”
The device is still in the early stages of development. SpaceX has told some investors that the design could change and that it is not yet clear whether the product will ultimately come to market. Representatives for SpaceX and Qualcomm did not respond to requests for comment. Read Entire Article
Meta’s Pocket app lets you vibe-code games with zero coding knowledge
The Play Store listing page for Pocket describes the app as a creative platform for making and sharing "gizmos," which Meta defines as "small interactive thing(s)" that users can "tap and play with." The company added that gizmos are essentially mini-games that can be controlled using touch and tilt gestures.......