Researchers have developed an AI model that can tell a person's sex through brain scans alone. Working at a level of 90% accuracy, the study arguably settles a long-running controversy over physiological differences. But before you ask, the answer is 'no' — that doesn't mean men are automatically smarter than...
Apple could be set to face a massive fine of around $539 million (€500m) from the European Union over alleged breaches of its competition laws. As reported by the Financial Times, the issue stems from an antitrust complaint filed by Spotify in 2019, relating to Apple's anti-competitive App Store functions...
Starship Technologies, the autonomous robot delivery services provider, has secured a fresh round of funding to power the next phase of its development. Led by Plural and Iconical, the funding round raised $90 million for the San Francisco-based company, taking its total funding to the figure of $230m since its...
Despite US sanctions prohibiting the activity, a report published by tomshardware, claims that individuals in nations bordering China have been purchasing complete pre-built PC systems with GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs, only to remove the graphics cards and resell them in China. For instance, it claims that in an attempt to...
An annual report posted by Amazon has revealed its spending on media content has increased to almost $19 billion. As one of the Big Five US tech giants, it owns several leading platforms, including Amazon Prime, Amazon Music, Twitch, and Audible. As reported by Variety, Amazon ran up a bill...
eBay, one of the world's largest online marketplaces, has agreed to pay $59 million to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, as per the Wall Street Journal. The federal government accused eBay of selling thousands of pill presses and encapsulating machines, which is a violation of the Controlled...
Microsoft will lay off 1,900 staff across its gaming divisions, impacting employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox. The cuts, reported by The Verge, amount to around 8% of Microsoft's total gaming workforce of 22,000. In an internal memo on Thursday (Jan.25), Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer called the layoffs "painful"...
Israeli startup, Bluewhite, has secured $39 million in funding to advance its development of autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to any tractor to operate it autonomously, reports TechCrunch. The robots are to be sold as a Robots-as-a-Service play instead of one-off products, with customers able to take the service...
In much the same way as certain artists and bands throughout history are responsible for inspiring new eras and ushering in change when it comes to games Doom is, well the Mona Lisa. Doom (the 1993 one, not the later remakes) and its cousin Wolfenstein changed gaming. You can’t say...
The iGame Z690D5 Flow, the newest motherboard from Colorful, a Chinese tech company with over two decades of experience, presents a distinctive white and fluid design that distinguishes itself within the competitive mid-tier market. Retailing for just below $400, the motherboard exhibits solid performance across a variety of tests, but...
Japanese gaming review site Famitsu published its annual report with Nintendo on top of hardware and packaged software sales in Japan. The Nintendo Switch is the company’s flagship console. It is now the ripe old age of seven and still hitting the monetary heights. Switch beats Playstation 5 For the...
US chip stocks experienced further losses on Wednesday, following on from the strongest year on the markets since 2009. The tumble of over 2% across the stocks of Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm, and Broadcom were the feature hits on the PHLX index, Wall Street's main semiconductor benchmark, with its losses...
Xbox Game Pass is a staple for players who have chosen the Microsoft side of the street when it comes to console gaming, and they gave gamers nearly $9000 worth of games to play in the year 2023. Prices rose for Game Pass in the latter part of last year,...
It’s a long-standing staple of fantasy games that a dragon sits upon a mountain of gold, obsessed with more and more of the glittering metal. Protecting it at all costs. Little did those working at fantasy gaming giant Wizards of the Coast (WotC) know that their very own version of...
Apple has halted the online sales of its Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the United States due to a patent dispute. According to MacRumors, this decision comes just before the enforcement of an import ban on these models. Visitors to Apple's online store will now...
Apple has verified that it will cease sales of its Series 9 smartwatch due to an October decision by the International Trade Commission (ITC) related to a patent disagreement with Masimo, a medical tech company based in California. The problem centers on the blood sensor monitor in the most recent...
Google's new Pixel 9 phone will be able to perform "complex and multimodal tasks," such as giving directions to a nearby store to purchase a product that you captured using the camera on the smartphone. Powered by Gemini Nano, the most advanced AI model from Google, the Pixel 9 will...
Streaming giant Netflix continues to make headway into the gaming space with 86 games available to subscribers by the end of this year. A blog post announced that 40 of those games will have arrived this year, including the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy. and that with nearly 90 more games...
Allowing a standalone purchase, Apple has begun selling the USB-C charging case for its second-generation AirPods Pro. for $99. For those who have already started switching all their gadgets to USB-C and own a pair of 2nd generation AirPods Pro with the Lightning case — you’ve already upgraded with a...
Even though many of us are busy with the holidays and end-of-year business activities, leaders are already thinking about the new year. A major reason for this is that companies tend to hire more during January and February. Considering the following factors, that makes sense: New hiring budgets. Typically, new hiring budgets come every year....
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