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Google's new battery tech will lower capacity over time, whether you like it or not
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
The feature, called "Battery Health Assistance," is essentially a software mechanism that automatically lowers the maximum charge level on your Pixel 9a after every 200 charge cycles. These reductions occur incrementally until the device reaches 1,000 cycles in total.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Arm is aiming to win half of data center CPU market by year's end
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Chips based on the Arm architecture used to play a marginal role in the data center business. However, things are changing fast and Arm expects substantial financial rewards thanks to the company's key partners in the market.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Trump's tariffs could prove to be a "nuclear bomb" on international trade and tech imports, experts warn
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
This aggressive escalation of Trump's trade wars could mean higher prices on virtually every product Americans purchase from overseas. Worse, analysts predict the tariffs could trigger recessions in multiple countries within the next year. "He just dropped a nuclear bomb on the global trading system," declared Ken Rogoff, former chief...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Miniature robot takes flight using magnetic fields, no onboard power
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
"Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering, and pollination, that artificial flying robots of similar scale fail to do," explained Liwei Lin, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study. "This flying robot can be wirelessly controlled to approach and hit a...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google AI falls for April Fools' prank story, presents it as real news
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Every April 1st, Ben Black loves pulling off a prank on the readers of his community news site Cwmbran Life. The 48-year-old journalist has been spinning up April Fools' Day hoaxes over the years that range from the hilarious to the totally absurd.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Reminiscing about Microsoft's early days, Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office. While he went on to write plenty of code for Microsoft in the years that followed, Gates holds Altair BASIC especially close to his heart, calling it the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Counterfeit Android phones are hiding pre-installed malware that can infect every system process
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Kaspersky researchers have discovered a new strain of the Triada Trojan preinstalled on thousands of new very cheap Android devices – counterfeit versions of popular models. The modular remote access trojan (RAT), first identified in 2016, can steal sensitive data and crypto while performing other malicious actions.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
ChatGPT can now generate fake receipts realistic enough to scam businesses
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Until recently, AI-generated images had one glaring weakness – garbled or nonsensical text. Many models have managed to fix problems like messed-up hands to the point where they're not even an issue anymore. But text has remained a bit of an Achilles' heel. That's changing fast, though.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Software engineers offer $10,000 reward to anyone who helps them land six-figure jobs
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
From the tech industry trend of streamlining businesses to generative AI reducing the need for programmers, getting a job in the industry isn't as easy or lucrative as it once was – as illustrated by the declining popularity of coding boot camps.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Laptop RTX 5080 comes within 15% of RTX 5090 performance in benchmarks
Posted on Thursday April 03, 2025
Notebookcheck recently tested a mobile Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 paired with the same CPU, providing a nearly like-for-like comparison. Although some laptops featuring the 5080 are up to $1,000 cheaper than 5090-equipped notebooks, the former is often less than 10 percent slower.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »