XOi Secures $230M and Acquires Specifx to Revolutionize Field Service Technology Field service engineers may not be the first group of customers that come to mind when you think about lucrative opportunities in B2B technology. But that same blind spot…

Google Ditches DEI  Google will no longer have diversity hiring targets and will review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, according to an email sent to employees that was seen by The Wall Street Journal. Google now joins other tech…

Intel PROSet Download Each file includes drivers for multiple adapters including 10/100, Gigabit, and 10 Gigabit adapters. This download includes diagnostics. Separate downloads are available for the User Guides and other features. This software may also apply to Intel Ethernet…

AI-Generated Books Editor’s take: Generative AI models are powerful tools that can be exploited by scammers, criminals, and those looking to fabricate an entire writing career. These models can, in theory, generate an endless stream of seemingly coherent text, and…

Alan Wake 2 Why it matters: As more high-end games require hardware-accelerated ray tracing, users continue disparaging the technology over its high computational cost and significant performance hit. One of Nvidia’s new software features coming to its RTX 50 series…

TV History Made: The First All-Transistor Television Ever Released Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Sony launched the world’s first non-projection, fully transistorized television, the TV8-301, in May 1960, about six years after Texas Instruments and…

Keyboard Giant  In brief: Compact, tenkeyless boards are quite popular among keyboard enthusiasts. There are far fewer choices at the opposite end of the spectrum, however, but one option does stand out from the crowd due to the sheer number…

Franken-Bird TL;DR: The US Air Force has done something pretty wild. It has pieced together two F-35A Lightning II fighter jets, recovered from accidents. Dubbed “Franken-bird,” it was a massive re-engineering feat that took almost a year to complete. Yet,…

Unreal Engine Breakthrough Utterly Unplayable: Unreal Engine is one of the most popular middleware solutions for developing games and other interactive experiences, particularly on PC and Mac. Created by Epic Games, it is also notorious for stuttering and graphics performance…

AMD Reports Massive 24% Revenue Surge in Q4 In a nutshell: AMD reported blockbuster Q4 results, with revenue soaring 24 percent year-over-year to $7.66 billion. The data center business thrived thanks to wide enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence workloads. Despite…

G.Skill Launches Powerful New Memory Kits In a nutshell: G.Skill has announced two new DDR5 memory kits for Intel PCs. The first is a low-latency 32GB kit running at 6400 MT/s with CL28 timings, consisting of two 16GB modules. The…

The Boiler: A Powerful RTX 4090 PC Hidden Inside a Vintage-Style Distillery What just happened? PC builder Billet Labs has just unveiled “The Boiler” – a miniature copper- and water-cooled rig that looks like something straight out of a 19th-century…