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<h5><strong>A hot potato:</strong> Microsoft's Recall feature is being universally slammed for the privacy implications that come from screenshotting everything you do on a computer. However, at least one person seems to think the concerns are overblown. Unsurprisingly, it's Microsoft Research's...

<h5><strong>WTF?!</strong> Apple claims it focuses on making products that are less likely to break rather than on making them easier to repair. That statement's unlikely to comfort anyone with a hairline crack in their iPhone or Apple Watch, which is no longer covered under the company's...

<h5><strong>Cutting corners:</strong> Apple will have plenty on show at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference. According to reports, one of these will be a new password management app called Passwords that could challenge popular rivals such as LastPass and 1Password on the iPhone, iPad...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Plenty of big-budget games flop hard, and few have flopped as badly as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Warner Bros. Discovery expected the superhero shooter to be a smash hit; instead, it led to the Rocksteady parent company taking a $200 million loss. Now...

<h5><strong>Facepalm:</strong> In a case of something going from bad to worse, Humane, the maker of the critically panned Ai Pin, is now warning owners of the wearable device to stop using the included charging case as it may pose a fire risk. </h5><p><img alt="" height="1088"...

<h5><strong>PSA</strong> Digital distribution platform GOG, formerly Good Old Games, might not get as much attention as Steam or the Epic Games Store, but its 4,000+ DRM-free titles make it a popular option for gamers. However, the CD Projekt-owned company is informing users of a new policy that...

<h5><strong>WTF?!</strong> Nvidia's role as the provider of most of the advanced hardware powering the AI boom has seen it become the second-most-valuable company in the US market. Team Green's market cap has surpassed the $3 trillion mark for the first time, putting it just above Apple and...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> It feels like we've been waiting ages for Samsung's new gaming monitors that were announced at CES to arrive. Now, the company has confirmed that the 32-inch Odyssey G8 OLED is available for pre-order, and with extra features that include AI-powered...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> Google, a company that has spent years being criticized for its privacy failings, is losing its chief privacy officer. Keith Enright is leaving the Alphabet-owned firm after 13 years, and Google has no plans to replace him or its head of competition law...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Foldable/flippable phones are one of the areas where Apple has yet to venture. There have been reports that Cupertino would release its first foldable in 2026, but it seems that we'll have to wait until at least 2027 to see an iPhone Flip or Fold. </h5><p><a...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> Elon Musk has confirmed reports that 12,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs intended for Tesla's EV production were diverted to X. Musk says logistical challenges were behind the diversion as Tesla "had no place to send the Nvidia chips to turn them on, so they would...

<h5><strong>Rumor mill:</strong> For all that Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and pretty much every other tech company out there claims that AI is revolutionary, it still gets some pretty basic things wrong. AMD, for example, saw an AI at its Computex demo claim the event's location was in a...

<h5><strong>A hot potato:</strong> The announcement of the Microsoft/Qualcomm Arm-based PCs has been hailed by some as the start of a serious challenge to x86 processors' dominance. Not surprisingly, one person who believes a revolution is coming is Arm CEO Rene Haas, who thinks Arm-based chips...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Google has made privacy mistakes in the past that were made public, but what about those we don't know about? A leaked internal database from the company has revealed thousands of privacy and security failings that Google flagged between 2013 and 2018, some of...

<h5><strong>A hot potato:</strong> Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to...