Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 adds safety tricks but not much grunt

Qualcomm has refreshed its smartwatch silicon after three years, but anyone hoping for a serious performance leap will have to keep waiting.

New chips, flashy zoom and generative tricks in shiny recycled wrappers

The search giant has unwrapped its 10th generation Pixel phones, and it looks like someone finally got serious about AI on a handset.

Corporates chase speed, cost, and brainpower

OpenAI might be taking flak for GPT-5’s "less intuitive" feel, but the enterprise crowd is lapping it up. The chatbot’s newly launched brainchild is already getting jammed into products across the coding and productivity world.

AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better

Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much.

Everyone wants to build the first machine that does something useful

The long-held fantasy of quantum computing is now looking more like a knuckle-busting engineering war.

Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward

State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.

Pixel 10 ad tells users its time to get a proper phone

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is once again being mocked for overpromising and underdelivering, this time by none other than rival Google.

CEO accused of scrubbing domestic violence arrest from search

A Silicon Valley suit has been accused of gaming Google's search system to wipe out unflattering articles about his past, using a little-known tool with a glaring flaw.

iPhone’s “new” Clean Up tool is actually just Google’s Magic Eraser in drag

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has wheeled out its latest “innovation” for iOS 26, which is really just a old Google Pixel feature dressed up in Californian smug.

Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives

Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.