X has updated its terms of service to explicitly claim rights to the “Twitter” name and trademarks. This comes after a startup founded by a former Twitter lawyer filed a petition to cancel those trademarks for a new platform.
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured its 100,000th image. The milestone photo, suggested by a high school student, shows mesas and dunes. The orbiter has enough fuel to keep going until the mid-2030s.
Volkswagen is ending car production at its iconic Transparent Factory in Dresden, marking its first-ever plant closure in Germany. The site will become a research hub for AI and chip design. The move is part of a broader plan to cut 35,000 jobs in Germany by 2030.
Samsung is giving South Korean buyers another shot at the Galaxy Z TriFold this week. The company will restock its online store at 10am on Wednesday, December 17th. With only about 3,000 units estimated for the domestic market, they’ll likely vanish instantly again.
Apple is reportedly planning a major internal hardware shift for the iPhone 18 series. The move to Wafer-level Multi-Chip Module packaging, paired with TSMC’s 2nm process, targets more efficient cooling and power use.
In a massive shift, the UK’s Crown Commercial Service has doubled the value of its upcoming tech procurement framework to £24 billion. This comes as ministers vow to get tougher on big vendors and extract better value for public money on everything from laptops to cloud services.
A severe DRAM supply crisis is causing RAM and SSD prices to triple, with impacts expected to last until 2028. However, if you’re mostly playing older or indie games, your current PC is probably just fine for the long haul.
General Motors is bringing native Apple Music directly to the infotainment systems of several 2025 and 2026 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles. The move is part of GM’s broader strategy to expand its own native app ecosystem, even as it phases out phone mirroring tech like Apple CarPlay in n
The smartphone market’s fragile recovery is under threat from spiking memory chip costs. Counterpoint Research now forecasts a 2.1% shipment decline in 2026, with device bills of materials potentially rising over 15%.
Rodney Brooks, cofounder of iRobot, says the billions being poured into humanoid robots like Tesla’s Optimus are wasted. He argues the fundamental challenge of replicating human touch and dexterity is being ignored, calling current training methods flawed. His critique comes as his former company, i
