Apple in hot water in 2024
Tech giant faces legal battles over billions
Apple is facing a double whammy of legal troubles that could cost it billions of dollars and shake up its cosy empire.
Nigeria's phone ban: Millions to be cut off by government
Give the government your details or lose your phones
Nigeria's government has ordered telecoms firms to cut off millions of mobile users who have not linked their SIM cards to their biometric IDs.
World's first lithium-free electric car launched by China
Will not blow up in your garage
China has beaten the world to launch the first electric car that doesn't need a lithium battery.
Microsoft jacks AI under the bonnet of new laptops
Ready in 2024
Microsoft is gearing up to launch its new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop lines, which it claims will be its first true next-gen AI PCs.
Nvidia slashes gaming card power to dodge US ban
Chinese will get throttled RTX 4090D
Nvidia has chopped the performance of its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU by nearly 11 per cent, so it can flog it in China without breaking US sanctions.
Musk blasts media for “fake” robot attack story
Attack happened; it was just not Musk’s pet robot.
Elon [look at me] Musk has hit out at the media for spreading lies about a robot “attack” at his Tesla factory in Austin.
Apple fangirls refuse to breed with Android users
iPhone or Bye Phone
In the Christmas to New Year dry season for news, the Tame Apple Press has made much of a story where a TikToker asked random women if they would refuse to date a perfect man if he had an Android.
Apple's Chinese rival zooms ahead with new electric car
Leaving it for dust
While Apple is still faffing about with its iCar, its Chinese nemesis Xiaomi has launched its first electric motor.
AMD filling the gap with Radeon RX 7600 XT in January
Rumor puts the launch date on January 22nd
It looks like AMD is finally filling the gap between the Radeon RX 7600 and the RX 7700 XT, by launching the Radeon RX 7600 XT, and rumor puts the launch date as January 22nd.
Nvidia launches Geforce RTX 4090D in China
Cuts down the CUDA cores but leaves it with 24GB of GDDR6X memory
As rumored and expected, Nvidia has now officially launched the Geforce RTX 4090D in China. The new RTX 4090D has slightly fewer CUDA cores and fewer Tensor cores but still packs 24GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit memory interface.