Monthly Archives: January 2025

Goodbye, Dell XPS

In a bid to streamline, Dell is dropping some of its most iconic laptop brands. At CES 2025 on Monday, the PC company announced that XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude are moving to a farm upstate. In their stead come Dell, … Continue reading

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OpenAI Shifts Attention to Superintelligence in 2025

Superintelligence refers to AI with greater-than-human capabilities.

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AMD unveils new chips for laptops, desktops, and gaming handhelds at CES 2025

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled a slew of new chips destined for devices ranging from desktops to gaming handhelds. AMD is riding high coming into this year’s CES. The company commanded a 28.7% share of the desktop … Continue reading

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Bluesky bump from X exodus is slowing down, data shows

Social network and X competitor Bluesky’s massive growth slowed in December in the U.S., after having surged from 9+ million in September to north of 20 million users in November. The slowdown is based on an analysis of web traffic … Continue reading

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Google is forming a new team to build AI that can simulate the physical world

Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks, one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, last October, will lead … Continue reading

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Bosch is making e-bike batteries lockable via an app to deter theft

German conglomerate Bosch announced on Monday at CES 2025 a new layer of theft prevention for its e-bike batteries: the ability to lock a battery through the company’s Flow+ app. With the feature activated, batteries will automatically digitally lock when … Continue reading

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Pebble reveals its EV travel trailer designed for digital nomads

Three years ago, Bingrui Yang founded Pebble to bring electrification, automation, and the usability of an iPhone to the RV world. The public got its first glimpse Monday at CES 2025 of what that looks like: a production-ready all-electric travel … Continue reading

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Online spending grew 3% to a record $1.2T over holiday period, says Salesforce

Online spending rose 3% to a record $1.2 trillion globally over the holiday period, with U.S.-sales, specifically, growing 4% to $282 billion. That’s according to a new report from Salesforce, which aggregated data from across its various cloud services, including … Continue reading

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Cryptocurrencies rise to start the week, bitcoin jumps above $102,000

The moves in crypto coincided with a rebound in tech stocks as Nvidia and shares of other chip names jumped.

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UK uses AI to tackle ‘bid-rigging’ collusion in public procurement contracts

The U.K’s competition authority already has a lot on its plate in terms of tackling Big Tech’s growing reach across the technological spectrum, but closer to home it’s dealing with a different kind of anti-competitive threat — one it reckons … Continue reading

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