
Silicon Valley’s favourite techno-futurist wants your iris
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project has decided that what Britons need in 2025 is to queue up in London and have their eyeballs scanned by a shiny metal orb.

Siri stumbles as Apple botches AI race
Apple Intelligence flounders while rivals eat its lunch
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is having a right old mess of it trying to make Siri less of a clueless digital butler and more like an actual AI assistant.

Takes aim at the portable gaming throne with Windows
Microsoft just waded into handheld gaming with both feet, taking direct aim at the Nintendo Switch 2 and Valve’s Steam Deck.

Jon Peddie blames Trump trade chaos for slowdown
Global PC graphics market took a knock in the first quarter of 2025, with GPU shipments sliding to 68.8 million units, down 12 per cent from the previous quarter, according to the latest data from Jon Peddie Research.

Broadcom rakes in VMware cash and bets big on AI
Turns out that threatening customers for using software they paid for works
Broadcom’s decision to swallow VMware and then do its best to infuriate its suppliers and customers seems to have paid off with the outfit posting $15 billion in second quarter revenue, up 20 per cent from last year.