China’s robotics industry may need at least five years before humanoid models reach a similar level of acceptance to electric vehicles, according to private equity firm Hermitage Capital, the latest v...
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In 2024, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chips finally made Arm-based Windows laptops viable. Unlike previous Arm laptops that struggled to even run Windows well, this new class offered solid performance and ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ OpenAI launched 'Your Year with ChatGPT' on December 22, 2025. ✓ The feature is available in the US, UK, Canada, ...
Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos are all approaching $300 billion net worths. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images/Elijah Nouvelage/Remo Casilli/REUTERS The $200 billion club could soon be old news as tech...
As clocks struck midnight, cities around the world celebrated the New Year with concerts, fireworks and light shows....
C.J. Mahoney, Meta's new chief legal officer and a former Trump administration official. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Meta hired C.J. Mahoney, a former Trump administration official...
China had fired rockets and deployed dozens of aircraft and naval vessels in exercises simulating a blockade of Taiwan's ports. Taipei condemned the drills as a threat to regional security....
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Elon Musk’s AI Grok has been fiercely criticised in recent days, after the chatbot began generating sexualised images of women and girls, flooding the app with explicit content. Some of the images inv...
Microsoft's annual Xbox Developer Direct event is taking place on January 22nd this year. The fourth Developer Direct will provide a closer look at two of Microsoft's biggest Xbox games this year, For...
Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to focus on Facebook. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Meta acquired Manus , a startup that has created a "general-purpose" AI agent to do tasks autonomously. One o...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised his troops fighting abroad as forging an "invincible alliance" with Russia in a new year's message, state media said Thursday....
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If you're trying to get healthier this year as one of your New Years resolutions, an Apple Watch would be a great tool to help you achieve your goal. Fortunately, the newest generation Apple Watch Ser...
Blackstone CTO John Stecher said the software engineering landscape looks different than when he graduated in 2001. Blackstone Blackstone CTO John Stecher said there's been a shift in entry-level soft...
Ride-hailing drivers face increased competition for earnings as well as the growth of driverless taxis. Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images Gig workers have been facing declining earni...
It may only be January, but I say it’s never too early to look towards the future and try to predict what the best games of 2026 will end up being. I don’t have a crystal ball or some sort of undiagno...
Nature, Published online: 01 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04114-0 More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run thr...