Calling time on another Apple product

It seems the smartwatch bubble has burst, with global sales taking a tumble for the first time—largely thanks to the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple dropping the ball.

The unlikely hero who stood up to the government

Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who blew the whistle on one of the most extensive illegal surveillance operations in American history, has died. He was 79.

Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i

Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.

Open’s bonnet, takes a deep breath and says, “It will cost you.”

Scientists have harnessed the Summit supercomputer's raw computational muscle to examine how cells repair DNA damage.

Boffins don’t back the hype

Microsoft has been boasting that its quantum chip is powered by an "entirely new state of matter," but not everyone is buying the hype.

Bankrolled by the EU

ASML and Imec have decided to get cosy for the next five years, ensuring that the Belgian research lab gets a High-NA EUV lithography machine.

Needs quick turn around before Celine Dion starts singing

Troubled Chipzilla has once again shuffled the deck chairs on its sinking semiconductor ship, bringing in industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the latest CEO to attempt a turnaround. 

RISC-V business

Meta is quietly testing RISC–V–based AI training chips to kick Nvidia out of its wallet.

EZ Latch Plus doesn’t mangle your motherboard

Gigabyte has thrown some serious shade at Asus with a new video flexing its EZ Latch Plus mechanism—showing a GPU being installed and removed a hundred times without any damage to the motherboard’s PCIe slot.

Does not need ink

Biggish Blue has just bagged a patent for a technology that uses 4D-printed smart materials to transport microscopic particles.