How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-ÎŒLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized ...
Itâs also the first Xiaomi phone to include Leicaâs little red dot logo. Xiaomi used the Christmas period to launch its top flagship phone for the year, the 17 Ultra. It drops the extra rear display t...
An Uber logo is shown on a rideshare vehicle during a statewide day of action to demand that ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft follow California law and grant drivers "basic employee rights'', ...
Last year, Intel had the best iGPU on the market. This year, itâs broken that record by over 70% with Panther Lake and it's a huge win for handhelds. âWeâve overdeliveredâ is how Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera Rubin architecture at CES 2026, launching production ahead of schedule. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Here are the biggest announcements from the 2...
Dave Baxter took an AI course in his free time to better understand the technology after concluding that his career depended on it. Justin Obney Dave Baxter is a sales executive who recently completed...
Googleâs Pixel 10 phones are some of the best Android phones on the market. If youâre taking it easy during the slow, in-between week between Christmas and New Yearâs, nowâs a good time to catch up on...
Wonder Studios' London team. Wonder Studios AI had a turning point in Hollywood in 2025 with Disney striking an OpenAI deal. Elsewhere, startups are raising money to tackle every stage in the producti...
Shape regularization is a technique used in computational geometry to clean up noisy or imprecise geometric data by aligning segments to common orientations and adjusting their positions to create cle...
Chinaâs private rocket makers are stepping up their dash for public funding, with Beijing-based LandSpace becoming the first commercial launch provider to clear a key regulatory âtutoringâ milestone a...
Jules Love. Courtesy of Jules Love The biggest barrier to AI adoption in creative agencies isn't tech but mindset, a consultant says. He said role-specific training and protected time to experiment wi...
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has updated the user interface of its flagship chatbot by adding an advanced âthinkingâ feature, as its app recorded a massive 90 per cent jump in mon...
Meta Platformsâ multibillion-dollar acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded artificial intelligence agent start-up, has set off a mix of excitement and unease in Chinaâs tech circles, opening what som...
The Dreame X40 Ultra used to be one of our robot vacuums on the market before its successor took its place. With the year coming to a close, nowâs a good time to set yourself up for a cleaner, more or...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI In 2026, quitting smoking and joining a gym are no longer enough for a new year's resolution. Young adults, addicted to their phones and exhausted with dating apps , are reso...
A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout. CES is a lot â a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Vergeâs on-the-ground team of super nerds...
If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further than Alienware's flagship Area-51 gaming PC equipped with a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. To kick off the ne...
If you're looking for a capable 1080p gaming PC for about $1,000, you can't do much better than this deal. For this week only, Best Buy has the HP Omen 16 gaming PC with RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics card...
We're in post-Christmas deals territory, which is a surprisingly good time to shop. Off the rip, we're seeing new price drops on pre-built gaming PCs , which are becoming all the more popular given th...
The Joint Interagency Task Force 401 recently marked its first 100 days in operation. US Marine Corps photo by Connor Taggart There's no single answer to defeating the threat of small drones, a counte...