Category: Design

Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm just launched its new Oryon CPUs and the Snapdragon 8 Elite at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui. While these chips might be designed for phones and not PCs, the next-gen Oryon CPU core within those chips could be headed to PCs in a future iteration of the Snapdragon X Elite. Referring to...

Jared Ortega/Shutterstock On Dec. 17, 1903, the Wright brothers successfully flew the first powered aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. That was a world-changing innovation that’s been built upon ever since, and in the 120-plus years mankind has taken to the skies, thousands of airplane designs have been attempted. Of course, not every plane designed...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: Bruce Nesmith, a designer for several major Bethesda productions over the past few years, left the studio in 2021. Despite his departure, he still has plenty to say about his former employer, game development practices, and the persistent...

French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops and phones. The new family of models, which Mistral is calling “Les Ministraux,” can be used or tuned for a variety of applications, from basic text generation to working in conjunction with more capable models...

Instagram is rolling out a new “profile card” feature that is essentially a digital business card for your profile. The official launch comes a few months after the Meta-owned social network was spotted testing the feature with select creators.  The new two-sided profile cards are designed to make it easier for users to share their...

Forty new variants of the TrickMo Android banking trojan have been identified in the wild, linked to 16 droppers and 22 distinct command and control (C2) infrastructures, with new features designed to steal Android PINs. This is being reported by Zimperium, following an earlier report by Cleafy that looked into some, but not all variants...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: AMD has launched the fifth generation of its Epyc server processors, codenamed “Turin.” The lineup includes 27 SKUs and introduces significant advancements with the new Zen 5 and 5c core architectures. These new chips will compete in the...

Image: GPD It’s now easy enough to find a laptop with a spiffy, super-vibrant OLED screen. But two OLED screens at once? That’s the stuff of science fiction — and, well, Lenovo’s weird Yoga Book 9i. But if you’re looking for a more conventional laptop design with a keyboard that just happens to go double-barrel...

Image: YouTube / Fold.it You may know that biochemist David Baker shares the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry with two researchers from Google’s DeepMind. But a video game helped get them there, and you can still play — and contribute to science — even today. Baker and the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design...

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 7781 aims to improve Ethereum’s network throughput by 50%.  Reducing slot times could address critical scalability issues and lower operational and gas fees.  It has the potential to boost innovation and adoption in the Ethereum ecosystem. A new proposal designed to improve Ethereum’s transaction speeds could greatly boost the network’s processing...