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Intel just posted its best growth in 15 years – and burned billions to make it happen
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Intel reported second-quarter revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% year over year and well ahead of Wall Street's expectations. Adjusted earnings reached $0.42 per share, almost double analysts' forecasts, while the company expects current-quarter sales of between $15.8 billion and $16.8 billion.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia is challenging 20 years of datacenter CPU design with its new Vera chip
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Vera is built around the Olympus core, the first custom CPU core Nvidia has ever brought to the datacenter and the first custom core the company has designed anywhere since the Denver and Carmel efforts of the Tegra era nearly a decade ago.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft steps in after LG monitors were found auto-installing apps with McAfee ads
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
The controversial advertising partnership between LG and McAfee has apparently come to an end after Microsoft got involved in the matter.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
What was the first consumer device powered by a Li-ion battery?
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Lithium-ion batteries changed tech forever, but the first consumer device to use one may surprise you.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia's Jensen Huang joins X, defends Chinese AI: "Open-source models that are excellent should be used"
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Update (July 24): Jensen Huang has taken his open-model campaign to X, creating an account and using his first post to share an industry letter signed by Nvidia and two dozen other technology companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Mozilla, Hugging Face, and Palantir.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OpenAI's rogue hacking incident sparks bipartisan bill giving the government an AI kill switch
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Sponsored by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), the bipartisan "AI Kill Switch Act" would also require AI companies to report incidents and develop the technical ability to shut down, limit, or suspend their most powerful AI systems, writes Politico.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft is testing free Xbox cloud gaming with ads, no subscription required
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
For a limited time, Xbox Insiders can now access games they own over the cloud on Xbox consoles, PCs, and mobile devices without subscribing to Game Pass. Microsoft promises that the ads will be unobtrusive.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Atari signs deal to turn Pong, Centipede, and Asteroids into movies
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Atari's retro games aren't the first that come to mind when you think of titles that would be great on the big screen. The full list consists of Asteroids, Adventure, Berzerk, Breakout, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong and Yars' Revenge.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google now lets you sign into your account using a selfie video
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
Google account holders can now check their eligibility to test a new sign-in method that compares a selfie video with an encrypted version stored on the company's servers. Google aims to provide a last resort when users cannot remember passwords or utilize passkeys.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
First-responder drones are spreading rapidly across the US, and privacy groups are worried
Posted on Friday July 24, 2026
The EFF writes that as of February 2026, over 1,000 public safety agencies, including police, fire, and other emergency management agencies, had received the FAA waivers needed to automate drone operations and launch a DFR program.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »