Big companies sign up to tackle Internet latency issues
L4S kills buffer bloat
Big companies are becoming more interested in the L4S stands for Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput which should speed up the Internet for most users.
Race is on for 2nm processing
Samsung sets 2025 for 2nm and 2027 for 1.4nm
The big foundries are starting to gear up for 2nm processing.
Fairphone 5 gets perfect score from iFixit
Could last ten years
The iFixit team pulled apart the newest Fairphone 5 smartphone and awarded its highest score for repairability: 10 out of 10.
UK mulls anti-trust probe against Microsoft and OpenAI
Are they too close for comfort?
UK competition watchdogs are investigating the relationship between the software King of the World Microsoft and AI company OpenAI.
UK mobile phone operators face class action
Loyalty lock-ins might have been illegal
The UK's biggest mobile phone operators could face total damages of $4.15 billion following class-action claims that they allegedly charged 5 million existing customers "loyalty penalties" over 16-years.
Apple plans to make a quarter of iPhones in India
Wants to avoid China crisis
Apple and its suppliers aim to build more than 50 million iPhones in India annually within the next two to three years, with additional tens of millions of units planned afterwards.
Chromebooks are not good for the world
Lenovo will keep making them
Lenovo will keep making Chromebooks even if they are bad for profits and for polar bears.
European Union releases first AI rules
Do no harm
European Union negotiators have hatched out a deal on the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal oversight of technology used in popular generative AI services like ChatGPT.
Baldur's Gate 3 named game of 2023
23 years after its predecessor
Role-playing adventure game Baldur's Gate 3 won game of the year last night at The Game Awards 2023 in Los Angeles.
AMD also teases next-gen Ryzen AI Strix Point and XDNA 2
Shipping in 2024
In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8040 series Hawk Point mobile processors, AMD has teased its XDNA 2 NPU and Strix Point at the Advancing AI event, promising over 3x the generative AI NPU performance uplift.