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Southwest jumps on electric air traffic bandwagon with Archer partnership
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. In a nutshell: The electric vertical takeoff and landing market offers a dream concept for many travelers: a short commute to an airport that avoids congested ground traffic and is less noisy and more environmentally friendly than a helicopter ride. The market is expected to be worth $57 billion by 2035 and has attracted a number of both pure-play startups and established conglomerates. Many of these companies are forming relationships with airlines interested in offering their customers this service.
Prime Day tech deals: our top picks for this year's event
Amazon's first Prime Day sale kicked off on July 15, 2015, celebrating the company's 20th anniversary. Since then, it has grown into a highly anticipated annual event, offering solid discounts on a wide range of products. This year's 48-hour Prime Day extravaganza runs through July 17 for Prime members across 23 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, many EU countries, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, among others.
New camera-based system can detect alcohol impairment in drivers by checking their faces
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. In brief: Glassy eyes, drooping eyelids, a slack jaw: these are all signs that someone might have had one drink too many. It's often obvious when someone is drunk just by looking at their face, and interior vehicle cameras could eventually use these tell-tale signs to help prevent drink-driving incidents.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta begins August 30 on all platforms
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. Something to look forward to: Call of Duty promotions have favorited PlayStation over the last several years – an arrangement that would inevitably change following Xbox owner Microsoft's acquisition of the franchise with publisher Activision Blizzard. The open beta for Black Ops 6 is the first significant sign of the shift.
Inside Valve: leaked court documents reveal Steam owner's employee pay and surprisingly low headcount
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. In context: Valve is as a privately owned company and as such it's never had to divulge information on matters such as payroll or staffing despite its position as one of the most powerful and influential companies in the gaming market. However, an ongoing court case has provided a glimpse into the scale of manpower and money Valve has managed over most of its history.
US Senate introduces ground-breaking bill to setup legal framework for ethical AI development
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. Better late than never: The AI boom has been anything but uncontroversial, with copyright lawsuits popping up everywhere. It has also elicited concerns from experts over its rapid growth and use to spread disinformation. Congress has finally stepped in to create a legal definition and framework addressing these concerns.
AMD teases Ryzen 9000 performance ahead of July 31 launch, details B850 and B840 chipsets
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. AMD's new Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors are just around the corner, and today we can reveal a little more information about them. As a quick recap, AMD announced the Ryzen 9000 series at Computex last month. This includes four main desktop processors in a pretty standard line-up: the Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X.
Ryzen powered NUC-like mini PC with built-in display hits Kickstarter goal in five hours
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. In a nutshell: Compact PCs are all the rage these days, so it's no surprise that one company is trying something new with a tiny "powerhouse" equipped with its own touchscreen. Prices aren't exactly cheap, but early birds can catch massive discounts on all available models.
Huawei debuts massive R&D center in Shanghai that is larger than Apple Park and Microsoft HQ combined
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. In brief: Huawei's R&D activities have taken a hit from the international sanctions imposed on the company, particularly by the US. Revenues have fallen, likely resulting in a cut to its innovation budget. In response, it's been forced to develop a domestic supply chain and alternative technologies, further diverting financial resources away from R&D. The company appears to be placing significant hopes in its newly opened R&D center, a massive 2,600-acre park that will house more than 35,000 scientists and engineers.
The Witcher 4 development is further along than any other CDPR game, expected to release before Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. Something to look forward to: Fans of CD Projekt Red games have a lot of upcoming titles they're looking forward to: the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, a Witcher 1 remake, The Witcher 4, and several others. Now, an executive from the Polish studio has confirmed that The Witcher 4 is by far the one furthest along its development cycle, suggesting that it will get here before the other big titles.
Survey shows many people believe AI chatbots like ChatGPT are conscious
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. WTF?! Are advanced, generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT in some way conscious or self-aware, able to experience feelings and memories just like a human? No, of course not. Yet the majority of people believe these LLMs do have some degree of consciousness, and that conviction could affect how users interact with them.
Ryzen 9 9950X Blender benchmarks show massive performance improvements over the 7950X
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. Something to look forward to: AMD is expected to unveil its Zen 5 lineup later this month, and going by the latest reports, the new chips could offer a massive upgrade over their predecessors, especially for those wanting the best 3D modeling, animation, rendering, video editing, and compositing solutions on the market.
Chrome proves to be the fastest browser, but is it the best?
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. What just happened? The first attribute most people want in a browser is speed – waiting even three or four extra seconds for a page to load can seem an eternity in internet time. If that is the only thing important to you, then look no further than Chrome, which beat five other browsers in tests for web page rendering, JavaScript and graphics. But there are other considerations, too, starting with Chrome's habit of collecting a voracious amount of user data.
AT&T discloses another massive data breach containing phone records of "nearly all" its customers
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. In a nutshell: Hackers stole more than 100 million AT&T customers' phone records from 2022. The information from a six-month period contained metadata, including phone numbers, call and text counts, durations, and, in some cases, tower ID numbers. However, the contents of text messages and calls were not accessed.
Game developer says Intel should recall its defective, crash-prone CPUs
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. Facepalm: Crashes experienced by customers owning recent high-end Intel processors aren't just software or BIOS-related issues. Alderon Games founder Matthew Cassells says Chipzilla has made his company's life much more complicated than it should be. The game developer has experienced considerable Intel CPU problems, including crashes, instability, and memory corruption.
NBA 2K25 gives the series a huge technical upgrade on PC this September
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. Something to look forward to: Compared to other sports simulation franchises, NBA 2K has waited an unusually long time to bring its PC version up to par with the latest consoles. The gap ends this year, introducing PC users to numerous technical and gameplay-related additions. Although the system requirements have dramatically increased, the game remains playable on Steam Deck.
Astronomers detect strongest evidence yet of intermediate-mass black hole in far-off globular cluster
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. Hidden Holes: Omega Centauri is a globular cluster hosting around 10 million stars and is visible from Earth's southern hemisphere with the naked eye. The cluster has been studied for 2,000 years and is still revealing its unexpected secrets thanks to modern, space-bound observatories.
Intel is prepping a new dual-core CPU with surprisingly decent performance
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. The big picture: Intel may have long discontinued its Pentium and Celeron processor lineups, but the company still caters to the entry-level market with the affordable "Intel Processor" series. Last year, Intel launched the Intel Processor 300 dual-core CPU and is now seemingly preparing its successor – the Intel Processor 310.
The EU targets X with potential massive fines for deceptive verification practices
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. What just happened? Elon Musk's X platform is once again in trouble in Europe. The European Union Commission says that the platform is a hotbed of misinformation and illegal content, its transparency and accountability requirements are inadequate, and the blue tick verification system is deceptive. As such, the service could face a fine reaching into the millions of dollars.
Microsoft Outlook users should update the client ASAP
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. In brief: Users of the Outlook desktop client should download Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates, as they address a serious vulnerability that could grant attackers deep access to targeted systems. The exploit requires little to no action from victims and affects most Outlook applications.
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