From PC Mag: President Trump has announced the launch of Stargate, a joint venture that plans to invest $500 billion over the next four years to develop AI data centers and generate electricity for AI across the US.

“Immediately, Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to...

From PC World: If you own a Qualcomm-powered Snapdragon Copilot+ PC and are willing to run one of Microsoft’s test builds, a new feature is available: smarter semantic search, where you can describe what you’re looking for on your PC without the need for specific keywords.

Semantic search was first...

From CNET: Netflix has introduced a new type of extra member account: extra members with ads.

The streamer announced the new offering in a shareholder letter on Tuesday before its fourth-quarter earnings call. In the US, according to Netflix's help site, adding an extra member with ads costs $7...

From GAMDIAS Press Release: GAMDIAS is excited to announce the launch of the ATLAS P2 CG curved glass panoramic case. As the first product launch of 2025, the case embodies GAMDIAS’s annual slogan, "GAMING REIMAGINED," redefining gaming setups with a sophisticated design and unmatched functionality...

From PC Mag: A hacker known as "IntelBroker" has claimed on the cybercrime forum BreachForums that they have breached Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a US IT firm that caters to businesses and broke off from Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2015.

The hacker made a post on Jan. 16, writing: "We've been...

From The Verge: Fujifilm has announced a new hybrid instant camera coming to its Instax line that doubles as a smartphone printer. The new Instax Wide Evo Hybrid instant camera is similar to the Instax Mini Evo that Fujifilm launched in the US in 2022, but as its name implies, it instead uses Instax...

From PC World: If you’ve been trying to somehow avoid the Windows 11 2024 Update, those days are over. Microsoft is now saying that mandatory Windows 11 24H2 updates have begun and the installation is lengthier than prior updates, so plan accordingly.

Microsoft’s status updates were made public on...

From PC Mag: With TikTok’s future in limbo, rivals X (formerly Twitter) and Bluesky have introduced vertical video feeds similar to those popularized by the China-based platform.

The announcements were made late on Jan. 19 ahead of the short-lived US TikTok ban. "We had to get in on the video...

From PC World: According to one analyst firm, the combined shipment of desktop and laptop computers in 2024 was 245.3 million units. That’s a big number — a new computer for one out of every thirty or so people on the planet — and it’s showing a growth over 2023. But with the previous post-pandemic...

From CNET: TikTok is back online in the US after briefly shutting down ahead of the start of a ban that had been set to kick in on Sunday.

TikTok said Sunday in a post on the social media platform X that it was in the process of restoring service after reaching agreements with its service providers...