ASUS RTX 5070 dips below MSRP
Nvidia price slide continues
While Nvidia's RTX 50 series finally has enough cards in the wild, prices are dipping with some falling below their original MSRP.
Apple's iPhone Air battery life is pants
Thinner iPhone runs out of puff
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple made a lot of noise about longer battery life in its latest iPhone 17 lineup, but it would appear that the Air is not that good.
Samsung fridges join the enshitification parade
Company sneaks ads onto Family Hub models
Samsung has decided the best way to “strengthen the value” of owning one of its pricey Family Hub smart fridges is to shove adverts in user's face.
AI doctors hate women and minorities
Bias baked into medical models
Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.
Apple hogs TSMC's 2nm chips
Grabs more than half of 2026 output, leaving rivals in the dust
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has reportedly signed up for more than half of TSMC’s 2nm production capacity in 2026, effectively elbowing rivals out of the queue for the world’s most advanced silicon.
Intel needs a chainsaw, not a plaster
Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split
Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Anthropic at odds with Trump's AI Tsar
Regulation over the free market
While other tech titans toasted President Donald Trump at a White House cheese and nibbles, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei [pictured] stayed in California to fight what he sees as an existential drift.
Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, making it a number two shareholder
Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs
Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).
DJI unveils new Mini 5 Pro drone with big camera upgrade
Sub-250g with 1-inch camera sensor
DJI has unveiled its new Mini 5 Pro drone, boasting to be "the world first to the sky" with a 1-inch large CMOS sensor. The sub-250g drone brings plenty of other upgrades and starts at €799.
AMD bulks up business desktops with new Ryzen Pro chips
Zen 5 and Zen 4 parts target office drones with AI engines and lower power draw
AMD has expanded its commercial desktop range with new Ryzen Pro 9000 and Ryzen Pro 7000 processors, pitching them at businesses that want performance, efficiency and enterprise features without headaches.