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Hitachi recently announced a partnership with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to develop floating systems to host self-sustaining AI data center facilities. Now, Samsung Heavy Industries is cooperating with different partners to fully develop its novel Floating Data Centers (FDC) concept. Samsung Heavy Industries is a South Korean shipbuilding company that's part...Read Entire Article

The creation comes from engineers at the University of Texas at Austin, who have developed textile fibers for atmospheric water harvesting – the process of collecting moisture from the air and turning it into liquid water.Read Entire Article

In a recent Talking Tech interview, Intel cast Project Firefly as an attempt to reshape the entry-level PC category. The emphasis is on a more unified laptop ecosystem instead of the fragmented approach that has defined this segment for years.Read Entire Article

The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher MrBruh after an AMD updater console window kept appearing on his new gaming PC.Read Entire Article

Prominent tipster Instant Digital recently stated that he is "100%" certain the next MacBook Pro model will feature a touchscreen, reversing Apple's stance regarding vertical touchscreens. The claim follows earlier reports from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman that the company plans to release the next major MacBook Pro revision later this year.Read Entire Article

Market intelligence firm Sensor Tower reports that ChatGPT has become the fastest app ever to reach one billion monthly app users (MAUs), beating the previous record holder, Google Maps, which took around five years after launch to hit the same number.Read Entire Article

When Copilot+ PCs launched on June 18, 2024, the messaging was clear: dedicated AI hardware was essential. These machines were defined in part by their neural processing units, along with baseline specs such as 16GB of RAM and solid-state storage. The NPU requirement, in particular, was positioned as the key...Read Entire Article

According to Insider Gaming, Ubisoft has informed employees via an internal communications post that a new restructuring plan will affect approximately 380 staff across its studios in the United States, Canada, Spain, and Serbia.Read Entire Article

Mythos has already shown what it can do when it is not heavily restricted. Since April, when an earlier preview was sent to about 150 organizations under the banner of Project Glasswing, users have reported more than 10,000 critical security flaws in their own systems. Those same capabilities could also...Read Entire Article

Microsoft recently released its latest batch of monthly security fixes for vulnerabilities found in Windows, Office, and other products sold by the company. This month's Patch Tuesday stands out for a record number of CVE-tracked flaws, with 200 individual bugs and 33 "critical" vulnerabilities that could have serious consequences for Microsoft customers.Read Entire Article

Display Driver Uninstaller is a trusted utility for fully removing AMD, Nvidia, and Intel graphics drivers when a regular uninstall is not enough. It's especially useful when swapping GPUs, fixing driver conflicts, or troubleshooting crashes or odd performance issues.Read Entire Article

Five years make the shift look even sharper. In May 2021, coal supplied 19.7% of US electricity, while solar accounted for just 5.4%. Today, solar's share of the mix has risen to the point where coal is no longer ahead of it on the grid.Read Entire Article

The latest leaks focus on the platform controller hub, which handles most of a motherboard's connectivity. For Z990, that hub is said to be significantly smaller than the one found on today's Z890 boards. The die is estimated to measure about 72.5 square millimeters, down from roughly 92.9 square millimeters....Read Entire Article

Redditor angelbabyzz writes on r/pcmasterrace that they woke up in the middle of the night to a bang and glass hitting them in the face.Read Entire Article

Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge, and other major web browsers based on Chromium. Even Opera, despite stating otherwise, will soon lose this capability.Read Entire Article

OpenAI writes that the now-banned accounts were "supporting covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and wider tech policies."Read Entire Article

Although Xbox chief Asha Sharma didn't say "layoffs" in her recent memo to staff, the message's tone certainly gives off the feeling that they're coming. Sources recently informed Bloomberg that layoffs are indeed on the horizon as Microsoft tries to save its console gaming business.Read Entire Article

The Riverside County Transportation Commission launched the smart freeway on an eight-mile stretch of the northbound lanes of Interstate 15 in Temecula on June 1.Read Entire Article

GM has already put the basics in place. Roughly 250,000 of its electric vehicles on US roads can perform bidirectional charging – power can flow into the battery and back out again. That has mostly meant keeping the lights on at home during an outage. Now GM is trying to...Read Entire Article

Bill C-34, also known as the Safe Social Media Act, would make social media services and some AI chatbot providers responsible for protecting children from online harms. The Canadian government says the aim is to shift the burden away from parents and onto companies designing platforms that keep young users...Read Entire Article