Valve Genius fixed video game lighting calculations
The maths was all wrong
The groundbreaking lighting in Half-Life 2 resulted from serious lobbying by a Valve designer on hardware makers who had not correctly added up their sums.
Vole faces £1 Billion Cloud overcharge case in UK
Outlook is cloudy
Software King of the World, Microsoft is staring down the barrel of a potential £1 billion payout if a colossal class action lawsuit brought by UK businesses succeeds.
Consumer electronics to become a trillion-dollar industry by 2026
Heading back to black
A new report from beancounters Stocklytics claims that the consumer electronics industry is back on track after having a dismissal few years and will be worth a trillion dollars by 2026.
Apple gets a breather in Brazil
Court gives it more time to get its act together
Fruity cargo cult Apple has been given more time to sort out its anti-trust antics in Brazil.
Chinese chip designer faces massive layoffs
Casualties in US-China Tech Conflict
Chinese server CPU designer Hongjun Microelectronics Technology is reportedly preparing to lay off up to half of its workforce, reflecting the escalating challenges Chinese semiconductor firms face due to geopolitical tensions.