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"Games should never die": Rust dev offers $25M to save Amazon's MMO New World
Posted on Sunday January 18, 2026
Amazon's ambitious online role-playing game New World is headed for closure, marking the end of a turbulent chapter in the company's game development efforts. The company announced earlier this week that servers for New World: Aeternum will go offline at the end of January.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel's Tejas CPU aimed for a clock speed so high it was never released. What was the target?
Posted on Sunday January 18, 2026
Before multicore took over, around the Pentium 4 era, Intel chased a clock speed so extreme it cancelled the processor outright.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Thousands of players join forces to build New York City in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale
Posted on Sunday January 18, 2026
The project is part of Build The Earth, a global initiative launched by YouTube creator PippenFTS to recreate the entire planet – block by block – at true scale in Minecraft. Some 45 regional teams contribute to this digital Earth, but none is larger or more active than the New...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Opera browser R3 update expands tab organization and AI integration
Posted on Sunday January 18, 2026
Opera One R3 is a major update that adds more customization options to Tab Islands for improved tab management, a faster and more context-aware AI built-in, plus a more versatile sidebar with Google services and expanded split-screen layouts.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Call of Duty's chart-topping run comes to an end
Posted on Sunday January 18, 2026
While Microsoft has not publicly disclosed performance figures for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, court filings from former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick paint a far less flattering picture. In documents submitted as part of the ongoing class-action lawsuit Sjunde Ap-Fonden v. Activision Blizzard et al., Kotick claims that...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Hackers can hijack your headphones in seconds using Google Fast Pair
Posted on Sunday January 18, 2026
Researchers from KU Leuven University's Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group have identified a set of vulnerabilities they call WhisperPair. Their findings reveal that attackers within Bluetooth range – roughly 45 to 50 feet – can take control of wireless headphones, earbuds, and speakers that rely on Fast Pair. The...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
ChatGPT is getting ads soon, starting with free users
Posted on Saturday January 17, 2026
ChatGPT users in the US will start seeing ads in the coming weeks unless they subscribe to the Plus or Pro tiers. The chatbot will not show ads to users who indicate they are under 18 or if it detects that a user is a minor.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The AI crunch is making high-capacity SSDs worth their weight in gold
Posted on Saturday January 17, 2026
Redditor Dark_Marmot recently claimed that Western Digital's most expensive WD Black solid-state drive is worth 70 percent more than 24-karat gold by weight. While average SSD prices remain far below gold territory, quick calculations by TechSpot and Tom's Hardware suggest that some 8TB models have already crossed that threshold, with...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Liquid gears could challenge 5,000 years of mechanical engineering
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026
The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, NYU physicists submerged two cylinders in a viscous water – glycerol mixture. When one cylinder rotated, the liquid currents it generated transmitted motion to...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 adds 40 TOPS accelerator to the single-board computer
Posted on Friday January 16, 2026
Raspberry Pi has started selling the AI HAT+ 2, an add-on board that represents a significant upgrade over the AI HAT+ model launched in 2024. While the original board could only accelerate certain types of neural network models, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 is powerful enough to manage and...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »