PC Magazine tested the X2 Plus against the Intel Core Ultra 7 268V, Core Ultra 9 285H, Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375, and Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 across multiple popular benchmarking apps. The lineup also included a 2024 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by Apple's M4 chip. The results......
What was the size of the first-generation floppy disk?
Were they always 3.5-inch? Also, do you remember the Zip drive? Read Entire Article
Global smartphone shipments rose 2% in 2025, with Apple taking the top spot
Tariffs were expected to have a significant impact on the market. Many OEMs frontloaded shipments in the first half of the year to help soften the blow but as the year progressed, they proved not to have much of an impact on the smartphone industry. Read Entire Article
Meta shuts down over 500,000 accounts under Australia’s under-16 ban, urges the government to end it
Australia's under-16 social media ban came into effect on December 10, just over a year after the legislation was passed. It requires Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube to verify the ages of Australian users and close the accounts of those identified as under 16.......
Intel’s Panther Lake could outperform AMD’s rumored PS6 handheld chip, efficiency aside
According to tipster Kepler_L2, Panther Lake chips will outperform AMD's Z-series processors, which currently dominate the handheld market, but will fall short of the Strix Halo APUs featuring Zen 5 CPUs and RDNA 3.5 graphics. However, those AMD chips are reportedly too powerful to meet the low TDP requirements of......
GameStop is closing hundreds of stores as the physical game era fades
Like many brick-and-mortar video game stores, GameStop has struggled as the number of buyers opting for physical games over digital downloads keeps shrinking. Its stores have been closing and worker numbers declining for years now. Read Entire Article
Elon Musk promises to open-source X’s algorithm in the next few days
The announcement marks the latest in a string of commitments from Musk to open-source the technology behind X's recommendation engine. Previous promises, however, have seen uneven follow-through. The company's last significant algorithm release dates back to 2023, when a repository appeared on GitHub showing portions of the platform's feed-ranking logic.......
Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has “done a lot of damage”
Huang made his feelings about AI skeptics, haters, and doom-mongers clear on a recent episode of the No Priors podcast. Read Entire Article
TV prices have fallen more than 90% since 2000, thanks to mass scale
A review of Black Friday ads spanning the past quarter-century shows that TV prices have dropped by more than 90 percent since 2000, even after accounting for dramatic increases in screen size and resolution. According to Brian Potter of the Institute for Progress, the decline is largely the result of......
The next EV breakthrough isn’t the car, it’s the battery factory
Electric vehicles already deliver what most drivers say they want: a quiet, comfortable car that is cheap to run and does not spew exhaust. Yet even as battery-only models pass roughly one-fifth of new car sales worldwide, prices remain too high for many buyers, and several major Western automakers are......