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Vince Zampella, Call of Duty and Respawn cofounder, has died at 55
Posted on Tuesday December 23, 2025
Footage of the crash, provided by a witness, shows a red 2026 Ferrari 296 GTX veering off the road and slamming into a concrete barrier shortly after exiting a tunnel. Zampella was driving and was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger was transported to a hospital, where they later died.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
PC and smartphone prices could jump as much as 8% as memory shortages worsen
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
IT market research and analytics firm IDC warns that PC sales could decline by as much as 8.9 percent next year if DRAM shortages worsen. Even under current conditions, the market is expected to contract another 4.9 percent, compared with an earlier forecast of a 2.4-percent drop in 2026.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A power outage knocked NIST's internet time servers out of perfect sync
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power outage. As a result, the Internet Time Services hosted at the campus are currently unable to provide an accurate time reference to external organizations...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Steam is ending support for 32-bit Windows as it moves fully to 64-bit
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
Valve has begun rolling out the latest version of the Steam client, which users will receive the next time they launch the application. While the update includes several changes, the most consequential is the end of official support for 32-bit versions of Windows.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Darktable 5.4 adds capture sharpening and film-style tone mapping
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
Darktable is an open-source alternative to Adobe Lightroom. The latest release brings capture sharpening to the demosaic module to recover detail lost to in-camera blur, alongside a new AgX-based tone mapper inspired by Blender with film-like highlight roll-off and deeper control over contrast and exposure.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
No assembly required: Proposed space station fits into one launch
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
The newly introduced platform fits into a single package and is designed to expand in space to a volume of 350 cubic meters – roughly a third the volume of the International Space Station (1,005 cubic meters).Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Atari's video game-themed hotel is finally happening in Phoenix
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
Atari first announced its partnership with GSD Group to build video game-themed Atari Hotels in the US five years ago. The first of these was supposed to open in late 2020, but as with many things, the pandemic put a major dent in the plans.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The first ever webcam was used at Cambridge University, but what was it designed to do?
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
Computer scientists at Cambridge University deployed the first ever webcam in 1991.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Amazon sold a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM kit that turned out to be DDR4 in disguise
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
Redditor Leading-Growth-8361 posted in the r/pcmasterrace subreddit that he bought some Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for his PC, but got a nasty surprise instead.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia's 100-hour GeForce Now cap hits all users next month – here's how expensive it gets
Posted on Monday December 22, 2025
Nvidia introduced the 100-hour GeForce Now monthly cap for new members at the start of the year. Existing paid members received unlimited playtime until January 1, 2026.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »