Amazon's ambitious online role-playing game New World is headed for closure, marking the end of a turbulent chapter in the company's game development efforts. The company announced earlier this week that servers for New World: Aeternum will go offline at the end of January. Read Entire Article
Intel’s Tejas CPU aimed for a clock speed so high it was never released. What was the target?
Before multicore took over, around the Pentium 4 era, Intel chased a clock speed so extreme it cancelled the processor outright. Read Entire Article
Thousands of players join forces to build New York City in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale
The project is part of Build The Earth, a global initiative launched by YouTube creator PippenFTS to recreate the entire planet – block by block – at true scale in Minecraft. Some 45 regional teams contribute to this digital Earth, but none is larger or more active than the New......
Call of Duty’s chart-topping run comes to an end
While Microsoft has not publicly disclosed performance figures for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, court filings from former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick paint a far less flattering picture. In documents submitted as part of the ongoing class-action lawsuit Sjunde Ap-Fonden v. Activision Blizzard et al., Kotick claims that......
Hackers can hijack your headphones in seconds using Google Fast Pair
Researchers from KU Leuven University's Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group have identified a set of vulnerabilities they call WhisperPair. Their findings reveal that attackers within Bluetooth range – roughly 45 to 50 feet – can take control of wireless headphones, earbuds, and speakers that rely on Fast Pair. The......
ChatGPT is getting ads soon, starting with free users
ChatGPT users in the US will start seeing ads in the coming weeks unless they subscribe to the Plus or Pro tiers. The chatbot will not show ads to users who indicate they are under 18 or if it detects that a user is a minor. Read Entire Article
The AI crunch is making high-capacity SSDs worth their weight in gold
Redditor Dark_Marmot recently claimed that Western Digital's most expensive WD Black solid-state drive is worth 70 percent more than 24-karat gold by weight. While average SSD prices remain far below gold territory, quick calculations by TechSpot and Tom's Hardware suggest that some 8TB models have already crossed that threshold, with......
Liquid gears could challenge 5,000 years of mechanical engineering
The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, NYU physicists submerged two cylinders in a viscous water – glycerol mixture. When one cylinder rotated, the liquid currents it generated transmitted motion to......
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 adds 40 TOPS accelerator to the single-board computer
Raspberry Pi has started selling the AI HAT+ 2, an add-on board that represents a significant upgrade over the AI HAT+ model launched in 2024. While the original board could only accelerate certain types of neural network models, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 is powerful enough to manage and......
Lego’s next Zelda set celebrates Ocarina of Time
Officially titled The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Final Battle, the model (77093) features 1,003 pieces as well as minifigures of Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf. The setting is Ganon's ruined castle, where you'll find three hidden Recovery Hearts and other elements from the game such as the......