Choose My Adventure: Star Wars The Old Republic fizzles out in a technical puff of smoke
Well, that was disappointing. Unfortunately, it would appear that my run in Star Wars: The Old Republic for this round of Choose My Adventure is...
OpenAI might be building its own chip, but it’ll still be dependent on Nvidia — custom chip developed with Broadcom reportedly slips to Q3 2026
OpenAI is widely understood to be developing a custom AI accelerator with Broadcom, part of a $10 billion partnership to design chips specifically for OpenAI’s internal workloads.
Brazil is the latest country to crack down on gambling lootboxes/lockboxes in video games
Ah man, reading this week’s news out of Brazil is making me pine for the days when it almost seemed like the world was finally...
‘Next-gen 3D printing’ enables printing with two different materials at once — faster, lighter, and more precise multiplexing nozzle tech demoed by U.S. gov’t scientists
A ‘next-generation 3D printing system’ has been demonstrated by scientists from the ORNL.
Huawei-powered mini-PC debuts with Huawei AI chip and 192GB of memory — Orange Pi AI Studio Pro wields Ascend 310 chip with 352 TOPS of AI performance, but relies on a single USB-C port
Orange Pi’s AI Studio Pro mini-PC promises up to 352 TOPS of AI performance with up to 192GB of LPDDR4X 4266 memory.
Not So Massively: The First Descendant’s Nell is a brilliantly fun character in a hollow game
In my last column on The First Descendant, I shared some pretty scathing criticisms of the current season and its new Axion Plains zone. Since...
Excited for Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super GPUs? Prepare yourself for disappointment as new rumor suggests they aren’t close to launch
Rumor about imminent arrival of Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super GPUs is wrong, apparently – they won’t be here anytime soon.
Microsoft adds Grok 4 to Azure AI Foundry following cautious trials — Elon Musk’s latest AI model is now available to deploy for “frontier‑level reasoning”
Grok 4, the latest AI model produced by Elon Musk’s xAI, is now available for enterprise customers inside Azure AI Foundry. Microsoft has added Grok 4 to its library after a series of prior internal testing to make sure it doesn’t go on tangents again. It has a 128K-token context window and focuses on STEM workloads over basic tasks.
Elite Dangerous releases the Type-11 Prospector, adds colony deconstruction and character renaming
After a bit of a delay, the latest patch for spaceship sandbox Elite: Dangerous is now officially live, headlined by the arrival of the Type-11...
Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Vibe Working Update Adds AI Agents To Word, Excel & PowerPoint
The rise of AI has led to new phrases to describe the ways people work with it, including the popular term ‘vibe coding’. Now, Microsoft is looking to add a new phrase to the lexicon with ‘vibe working’ that will be the “the new pattern of work for human-agent collaboration.” To that end, Microsoft is integrating AI agents into various parts