According to testing, the Razer Blade 18 (2025), Alienware 18 Area-51 (2025), and MSI Titan 18 HX are the most powerful laptops of the year. All feature Intel Core Ultra 9 CPUs and RTX 5090 GPUs, pushing frame rates well beyond 60 FPS in demanding titles like Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings. The Raze
Scientists have figured out how some of our most crucial proteins can keep a vital function stable while constantly evolving. The secret? They’re locked in a never-ending fight against “selfish” DNA.
2025 was a landmark year for the Linux kernel, marked by Rust moving from experiment to core component and Linus Torvalds’ unfiltered commentary on everything from file-systems to commit messages. In a surprising twist, a scheduler built for the Steam Deck found a home on Meta’s massive servers, hig
A Texas company has proposed repurposing nuclear reactors from retired aircraft carriers and submarines to power AI data centers. The plan aims to deliver up to 520 megawatts of power for a fraction of the cost of new plants, but faces major technical and political hurdles.
The Elecrow CrowPanel Advance 7-inch display uses both an ESP32-P4 for AI tasks and an ESP32-C6 for Wi-Fi. It’s a powerful $60 kit, but development is mired in new-hardware quirks, requiring deep dives into ESP-IDF and custom fixes to get basic features running.
India’s data center market is exploding with a 20.5% CAGR, driven by a pivot after the 2008 crisis. Now, the focus is on building in Tier 2 cities for edge computing and tackling power and water sustainability head-on. It’s a blueprint for digital growth.
HTC is taking a different path with its new VIVE Eagle smart glasses, betting on an open platform that lets users choose their AI model. This is a direct challenge to Meta’s closed-system approach. The company is also focusing on Asian markets first, with a planned expansion to the West.
Lua 5.5 has been released with a suite of improvements aimed at performance and developer control. Key updates include incremental major garbage collection and more compact arrays that use about 60% less memory. The update also introduces stricter rules for variable declarations.
According to XDA-Developers, real-time ray tracing is now seven years old, but the performance penalty for enabling it hasn’t seen drastic improvements. You still need at least a mid-range GPU like an RTX 4070 Super to handle it at 1440p, and most games don’t even look drastically better with it on.
Google has launched a ‘Feeds app’ for Google Chat, letting teams pipe RSS updates into conversations. It’s a practical tool but a far cry from the beloved Google Reader, which was shut down back in 2013.
