A new powerful chipset has arrived to take on x86 CPUs and Apple’s M5, writes Wccftech. The blog Windows Central writes that “Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 processors are here” — and they run Windows:Microsoft has done a massive amount of work to improve compatibility and has also convinced developers to embrace Windows 11 on Arm. Users of Windows 11 on Arm PCs spend 90% of their time on Arm-based...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie “is officially the year’s highest-grossing film to date with $629 million at the global box office,” reports Variety — and it will likely earn over $1 billion. Project Hail Mary now becomes the year’s second highest-grossing movie, with four-week ticket sales over $510, notes The Hollywood Reporter: The two films have helped propel year-to-date revenue to $2.113...

“RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year,” argues The Verge, with models coming from all the manufacturers.”And the first one of 2026 is here — the UR9 from China’s Hisense — “the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms.” They call it “a step above the traditional mini-LED TVs of years past.” and “a great first shot against OLED’s...

Mississippi has one warehouse — run by a contractor — that sells all the liquor for the entire state of 2.9 million people. “If a restaurant or store anywhere in Mississippi wanted a bottle of Jim Beam, they had to order it from the wholesale warehouse,” reports the Washington Post. But then Mississippi’s warehouse-managing contractor implemented a new computer system that wasn’t compatible...

Bloomberg describes him as a “former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience.” “For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories,” Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now “My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory.” Engramme connects to your...

Bloomberg describes him as a “former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience.” “For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories,” Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now “My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory.” Engramme connects to your...

The biotech industry’s engineered cells could become an $8 trillion market by 2035, notes Phys.org. But how do you keep them from being stolen? Their article notes “an uptick in the theft and smuggling of high-value biological materials, including specially engineered cells.”In Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically securing precious biological...

The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — “has made its way into the Linux kernel,” reports the blog It’s FOSS “thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-in-command.”He’s been quietly running what looks like an AI-assisted fuzzing tool on the kernel that lives in a branch called “clanker” on his working...

Forbes estimates he’s worth roughly $110 billion, “placing him ahead of Bill Gates.” And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, “has written a memoir…”It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users,...