Science & Technology

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Thursday, October 24 (game #501)

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It…

‘It’s not as simple as real image and fake image’: Qualcomm weighs in on AI photo editing debate

I felt like I opened a can of worms when I asked Samsung about its stance on AI photo editing…

Qualcomm’s next AI frontier is… your car

Qualcomm has historically been quiet about its automotive aspirations, preferring to focus attention on its Snapdragon mobile and laptop processor…

Meet the 634g Japanese wonder notebook that runs on Intel’s latest CPU — it makes the Dell XPS 13 looks overweight, but shame about the battery life

Fujitsu has launched the FMV Zero notebook, which at only 634g (1.4 lbs), looks to claim the title of the…

We got a sneak peak at the Asus ROG Phone 9, one of the first Snapdragon 8 Elite phones, and it’s going to be fast

Monday at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship mobile SoC – the Snapdragon 8 Elite –…

PlayStation’s new PSSR AI upscaling looks set to compete with Nvidia’s DLSS – while AMD falls behind yet again

The brand new PSSR AI upscaling method built for the PS5 Pro appears to defeat AMD’s FSR 3.1, taking a…

After weeks of weather delays, NASA astronauts finally set to depart space station

The summary Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are set to leave the International Space Station on Wednesday after…

50x faster, 50x thriftier: UK AI startup backed by Arm delivers stunning gains in performance and power consumption using a cheap $30 system board

Back in March 2024, we reported how British AI startup Literal Labs was working to make GPU-based training obsolete with…

Samsung has ‘no plans’ to launch a cheap Galaxy Z Fold phone, but it definitely should

If like me you were hoping we might see a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold FE – i.e. an affordable alternative…