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AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter
AMD’s latest quarterly results show a stark divide in where its money now comes from, with data centre revenue dwarfing that of its traditional gaming business by a factor of more than eight. The figures underline how thoroughly the AI boom has reshaped chipmakers’ priorities, with server and AI accelerator sales now the dominant driver…
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Pokemon Pokopia – How To Unlock The Portal Pod And Store Shared Items
Pokemon Pokopia’s new 2.0 update is live, and this introduces the ability to dive and explore underwater. This new content also adds several new items to the game, including the highly requested shared storage system called the Portal Pod. In this guide, we’ll explain how to unlock and craft the Portal Pod, so you can…
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NASA’s PUNCH mission can now accurately predict when solar storms will hit Earth
NASA’s PUNCH mission has demonstrated it can accurately forecast when solar storms will strike Earth, marking a major step forward in space weather prediction. Using continuous imagery from its constellation of four microsatellites, the mission tracked a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun and predicted its arrival time on Earth to within half an…
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Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech
The American Federation of Teachers, a major US labour union with around 1.8 million members, has launched a National Academy for AI Instruction to train educators on using artificial intelligence in the classroom. The $23m programme, funded entirely by Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, aims to train 400,000 teachers over five years, but has proved controversial:…
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‘It confirmed my flaws’: women are paying for face scans that score beauty and suggest excessive procedures
An investigation by the Guardian examines the rise of paid “facial analysis” services, such as Qoves, Facemaxify and Epica, which claim to use science to score users’ attractiveness and recommend cosmetic procedures. These tools have grown out of “looksmaxxing” culture, an online movement that treats beauty as something quantifiable and improvable through surgery and injectables,…
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Boy George claims Bandcamp “bowed to the pressure of antisemites” for removing his pro-Israel song and hits out at their AI policy
Boy George has accused Bandcamp of removing his 2024 song “Cha Cha Cha” – which addressed the Israel-Gaza conflict from a pro-Israel perspective – after complaints from what he called antisemitic critics. The singer’s comments add him to a growing list of musicians publicly clashing with streaming and hosting platforms over perceived political bias and…
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It won’t fix the RAM crisis, but CXMT is poised to bring back mass-market DRAM production and gaming laptop brands are interested
Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) is on track to become a significant new source of mass-market DRAM chips, at a time when global memory supplies have been squeezed and prices have surged. According to the report, several gaming laptop brands have shown interest in sourcing RAM from the firm, which would mark a…
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The Best MagSafe Accessories (for Android Too!): Chargers, Wallets, and More
Wired’s updated buying guide rounds up the best MagSafe accessories for 2026, covering iPhones and, increasingly, Android handsets thanks to the Qi2 wireless charging standard. MagSafe, Apple’s magnetic accessory system built into iPhone 12 through 17 models (excluding the SE and 16e), allows faster, more precise wireless charging and lets users attach wallets, grips, mounts…
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NetEase overhauls Marvel Rivals textures to shrink install size
Marvel Rivals has received a major update that significantly cuts the game’s install size across all platforms, addressing growing concerns over storage demands. The change comes via a texture compression overhaul that developer NetEase says does not sacrifice any visual quality, making the popular hero shooter considerably lighter to keep installed. On PS5 and Xbox,…