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Sega's RGG Studio is reimagining Virtua Fighter with Crossroads, a story-driven fighting game set in fictional Southeast Asian city Vilasapara, featuring new and returning characters like Pai Chan. It launches in 2027.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, known as B1067, just completed its 35th mission after five years of service, launching 29 Starlink satellites and landing safely on a drone ship. SpaceX aims to qualify boosters for 40 missions each,...
China has approved the world's first commercial brain implant, a coin-sized device called NEO, developed by Shanghai-based NeuraMatrix, beating Neuralink to market. NEO sits on the brain's protective membrane and lets paralyzed...
Apple's watchOS 27 compatibility list shocked users by dropping support for six older models, including the Series 9, which only received two major updates. Samsung and Google now offer more predictable update windows — four...
Apple's Shortcuts app is getting a major upgrade — users can now describe automations in plain English, and Apple Intelligence builds them automatically. This removes the technical barrier that previously made Shortcuts...
Tesla has applied for an Autonomous Vehicle Network permit in Nevada, planning to deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in Clark County within 12 months, leveraging Las Vegas's high tourist traffic to showcase its driverless technology.
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Apple announced major speed improvements coming to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 at its WWDC conference. Apps will launch up to 30 percent faster, AirDrop file sharing will be up to 80 percent faster, and iPad-to-external-drive transfers...
Apple's controversial Liquid Glass design, introduced at WWDC 2025, drew criticism for being hard to read. At WWDC 2026, Apple announced fixes — including better content diffusion for improved readability and a new slider letting...
macOS 27 Golden Gate drops Intel Mac support, requiring Apple Silicon. Intel machines will still get security updates for ~2 years, and Rosetta 2 will phase out, only supporting older Intel-based games.
Apple's Passwords app now uses agentic AI to automatically change weak or compromised passwords, not just flag them. iOS 27 rolls out in September.
Google and Nvidia are considering Intel as a backup chip manufacturer to reduce reliance on TSMC, driven by geopolitical risks around Taiwan that threaten supply chain stability.
"Thinnernet" is a concept for a lightweight, parallel internet designed to deliver essential data reliably across all connection speeds. Rather than demanding ever-increasing bandwidth, it proposes tiered, predictable web access...
Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, ending a two-year wait since its initial announcement. The upgraded assistant features a more conversational voice, customizable speaking styles, slang recognition, a dedicated app synced...
iOS 27 introduces AI upgrades to iPhone's camera and Photos apps, including easier Visual Intelligence access via a new "Siri AI" tab and three generative AI tools: Clean Up, Extend, and Spatial Reframe.
Intel's 8086 microprocessor, launched on June 8, 1978, became the foundation of modern computing by introducing the x86 architecture still used in PCs today. Developed in just 18 months as a temporary solution, the 16-bit chip...
Apple unveiled a major Siri overhaul at its Worldwide Developers Conference, promising a more conversational AI assistant powered by Google's Gemini model arriving this fall. The new Siri can handle multi-step tasks across apps,...
Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 from 2007, adding mouse and keyboard support. The aging phone's 332 MHz processor and 64MB RAM technically exceed the game's 1998 minimum...
Big Tech's grip on social media may finally be loosening. A wave of scrappy startups is reimagining how we connect online, and the alternatives are surprisingly compelling. There's Retro, a photo-sharing app built by former...
In the mid-1990s, tech forecasters made bold predictions about the future, with results ranging from eerily accurate to spectacularly wrong. Bill Gates correctly envisioned smartphones, Ray Kurzweil predicted AI beating chess...
South Korea's KSTAR fusion reactor held superheated plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds and sustained high-confinement operation for 102 seconds, both new records. A newly installed tungsten divertor made this...
Apple's WWDC may debut a Gemini-powered Siri capable of unifying sleep, fitness, and mood data into a health chatbot, catching up to rivals like Google and Oura.
Apple's WWDC (June 8–12) is expected to unveil a Gemini-powered Siri with true AI agent capabilities, new OS updates, AI photo tools, and smart glasses hints—marking Tim Cook's last WWDC before John Ternus becomes CEO.
Mid-range phones with MediaTek's Dimensity 8550 and Gemini AI need 12GB RAM, potentially forcing manufacturers to cut costs on build quality and cameras to compensate.
Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 2 quantum chip, with qubits now lasting 20 seconds — 1,000 times longer than before — pushing its timeline for a practical quantum computer from 2033 to 2029. This breakthrough in qubit stability...