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Robotaxis can drive themselves, but still pay humans $20 to close the door
Posted on Friday December 26, 2025
Waymo's vehicles can navigate complex city streets, use lidar, radar, and cameras to build a real-time 3D map of their surroundings, and communicate their locations to centralized servers. Yet the system halts when a door sensor registers even a partial latch. Because the cars are sealed off from manual control,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?
Posted on Friday December 26, 2025
Is it closest to a Radeon, GeForce, or Intel graphics equivalent?Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google is finally letting you change that embarrassing old Gmail address
Posted on Friday December 26, 2025
According to an update to Google's account help page, Gmail users can now change their existing Gmail address to a new one without losing all the associated data and services.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ten former Samsung employees charged over DRAM technology leak to China
Posted on Friday December 26, 2025
Prosecutors classify the stolen intellectual property as Samsung's state-designated core technology for 10-nanometer-class DRAM, developed over about five years at a cost of roughly 1.6 trillion won, at a time when Samsung was the only company mass-producing 10-nm-class DRAM. The ten defendants are accused of using shell companies and frequently...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AI data centers may run on nuclear reactors from retired Navy aircraft carriers and submarines
Posted on Friday December 26, 2025
Texas-based HGP Intelligent Energy has sent a proposal to the US Department of Energy about using two former US Navy reactors to provide between 450 and 520 megawatts of constant power.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Magnetic cloaking is moving from theory to real-world engineering
Posted on Friday December 26, 2025
A magnetic cloak works by diverting external magnetic fields so that, to an external observer, the object appears to be absent or invisible. Although this idea has been studied for years, most implementations have been limited to simple geometric forms, such as cylinders or spheres. The Leicester study marks the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
No Ryzen Killer: Intel Core Ultra 5 225F Review
Posted on Friday December 26, 2025
Almost no one asked for it, but curiosity won out. We're taking a close look at Intel's Core Ultra 5 225F – a locked, budget-focused CPU that's been quietly sitting on shelves for nearly a year.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
This Windows registry hack can boost NVMe SSD performance by up to 80%, but there's a catch
Posted on Thursday December 25, 2025
One developer who successfully activated the feature in Windows 11 (version 25H2) claims it works "pretty good" on his computer. He shared a step-by-step guide on how to activate the feature on Windows 11 devices.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape
Posted on Thursday December 25, 2025
Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty good chance of being recoverable." It held up well for a medium that relies on a thin, coated film and precise magnetic signal integrity...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel's Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs spotted with up to 86 cores, 336MB cache, and $9,300 pricing
Posted on Thursday December 25, 2025
Granite Rapids comprises several server and workstation CPUs, led by the Xeon 698X. The flagship is expected to feature 86 cores and 172 threads – substantially more than the 60 cores found in the W9-3595X Sapphire Rapids Refresh CPU, but still fewer than AMD's Zen 4-based Threadripper Pro 9995WX, which...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »