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Huawei has revealed what it sees as a new path forward for advanced chips. At the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai, Huawei’s He Tingbo introduced the company’s Tau Scaling Law, a new semiconductor principle that Huawei says can guide chip development as traditional Moore’s Law runs into physical and economic limits. The company says future high-end chips designed under this approach could reach transistor density equivalent to 14 angstroms, or 1.4nm, by 2031. How Huawei is changing the chip game 1.4nm sounds pretty impressive, but the keyword here is equivalent. Huawei is not saying it…
Whether they’re roguelikes, roguelites, or just rogue games, there’s no denying the popularity of the run-based genre that’s become ubiquitous in recent years. Whether you’re fighting your way out of hell, you’re trapped in a time loop, or you’re tasked to infinitely rebuild a deck of magical cards (this last one happens a lot), the category of games has absolutely earned its praises. It’s hard to beat the satisfaction of a good power crawl, the condensed structure, or the urge to play just one more run, even after the most devastating losses.Still, that structure can take many forms, and an…
Back in 2023, Avalanche Studios (also behind Mad Max) let many live their magical dreams of entering the Harry Potter universe once again with Hogwarts Legacy. Players got to experience the magical school of witchcraft and wizardry in next-gen graphics. Now, a new rumor suggests that Hogwarts Legacy 2 may be closer to its first official reveal. But this is one of those leaks that seems more hopeful than real. What does the rumor say? Hogwarts Legacy 2 could appear during Sony’s next State of Play showcase. The post has been interpreted as a tease for a reveal rather than…
If you have ever tried to book a hotel online and found yourself unsettled by the AI chatbot trying to help you, science has your back. New study from Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences confirms that hotel booking chatbots are genuinely creeping people out, and it is actually hurting bookings. What is giving hotel chatbots their creep factor? Researchers surveyed 340 adults in the UK who had used chatbots to book hotels and found three main culprits behind the ick factor: inaccuracy, deceptive behavior, and intrusiveness. Inaccuracy was by far the biggest offender, triggering a negative response…
China has launched a national programme that will assign every humanoid robot manufactured in the country a unique digital identity code, effectively a citizen ID, but for bipedal machines (those that can balance and walk/run on two legs). The initiative, called the Humanoid Full Lifecycle Management Service Platform, was announced on Friday. It is led by the Humanoid Robotics and Embodied Intelligence Standardization committee, which is under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (via South China Morning Post). What does a robot ID actually look like? The machine codes are structured in four parts. While a two-digit national code…
Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical on May 15, the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum. The document, Magnifica humanitas, was published on May 25 and addresses one of the defining challenges of our time: artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity. The core message isn’t anti-technology. The Pope is clear that technology is neither a threat nor inherently evil. However, he does say that technology is never neutral, because it takes on the values of those who build, fund, and control it. That’s where things get interesting. Is AI becoming a tool for the powerful? A…
I wrote this entire article while seated on an airplane experiencing unusually high turbulence. The software I used to spell-check and grammatically sanitize the draft was built at an airport. The language engine is running entirely on my Mac, fully offline, fixing all my typos and removing the double spaces while I mash the keyboard and sip a sugar-bomb coffee. Also, I don’t know how to code. I didn’t write a single line of code, and yet, the Mac software I am using right now looks classier and feels snappier than Grammarly ever did. Grammarly, if you don’t know, is…
Microsoft appears to be softening its aggressive AI push in Windows 11 by making it easier for users and organizations to completely remove the Copilot app from their PCs. The move comes after continued criticism from users who felt Microsoft integrated Copilot too deeply into Windows without offering enough control over the experience. According to findings from Windows Latest, Microsoft quietly introduced a new Group Policy option in the Windows 11 April 2026 Update that allows administrators to remove the Microsoft Copilot app system-wide. The policy, named “Remove Microsoft Copilot app,” can be found under User Configuration > Administrative Templates…
Samsung is getting ready to launch two new foldable phones in July, and if a recent leak is accurate, the company is about to flip its naming convention completely, and it’s going to confuse a lot of people. Tipster Ice Universe has claimed on Weibo that the phone we have been calling the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide will actually launch simply as the Galaxy Z Fold 8. The device we expected to be the standard Galaxy Z Fold 8 will instead become the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. While I can see why Samsung is considering the new naming…
Lenovo has accidentally confirmed it is working on laptops powered by Nvidia’s yet-to-be-announced N1X chip. The confirmation comes from Lenovo’s own ADFS authentication system, which referenced an “Nvidia N1x Portal” in its internal login page, as first spotted by the folks at VideoCardz. Earlier support page leaks also listed several unreleased Lenovo systems with N1 and N1X labels, including the Legion 7 15N1X11, which points to a Legion 7 gaming laptop built around the N1X chip. So what exactly is the Nvidia N1X? According to leaks, the N1X is Nvidia’s upcoming ARM-based chip that combines a 20-core CPU with a…