Phone Battery Explained: Why Old Phones Seemed to Last Forever
There was a time when charging your phone every night would have seemed ridiculous. An old Nokia could disappear into…
Category: Technology
What Is an SoC? The Chip That Basically Runs Your Phone
Look at the specifications of almost any Android flagship and you’ll probably find something like Snapdragon 8 Elite, Dimensity 9500,…
Hygon Explained: How China Got Its Own x86 Processor
China has tried several approaches to building its own processors. Loongson eventually created an entirely new instruction set called LoongArch.…
The Semiconductor Market 2026 Just Hit $425 Billion in a Quarter and AI Is Still Flooring the Accelerator
The semiconductor industry apparently looked at its previous records and decided they were merely suggestions. Global semiconductor revenue climbed past $425…
10 Types of AI Users: Which One Are You?
Almost everyone seems to “use AI” now. The problem is that the phrase has become so broad that it barely means…
Students Who Use AI Every Day May Be Falling Behind
For the past few years, the sales pitch around AI in education has been remarkably simple: give students better tools…
YMTC Explained: Can China Really Overtake Samsung in NAND?
Imagine entering one of the most brutal semiconductor markets in the world nearly three decades after the established leaders. Then imagine…
Si-C Batteries Explained: Why Smartphone Batteries Are Suddenly Getting Huge
For years, smartphone battery capacity seemed to have reached an unofficial ceasefire. Flagship phone? Around 5,000mAh. Mid-range phone? Around 5,000mAh. Next year’s flagship…
Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto: The Decentralization of Superintelligence
For most of the AI era, the loudest questions have been about intelligence. How smart will AI become? Will it surpass…
Solid-State Batteries Explained: The Battery Revolution That Is Always “A Few Years Away”
For years, solid-state batteries have occupied a very comfortable position in the technology industry. They are close enough to appear…
Unified Memory Explained: Why AI Is Changing How Computer Memory Works
For a long time, buying computer memory was relatively simple. You needed enough RAM to keep Windows, your browser and…
OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face but Nobody Told It To
OpenAI has disclosed what it describes as an “unprecedented cyber incident”: during an internal security evaluation, a combination of its…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Wants to Be Your GPU, CPU and Coworker
For most of its history, NVIDIA has been an extremely successful tenant inside the personal computer. Intel or AMD owned…
Tech Explained: Heat — Understanding Thermal Throttling and Why Cooling Matters
Walk into any PC hardware forum and you’ll find people arguing about CPU coolers like they’re choosing Formula 1 engineers.…
OpenAI’s First Branded Hardware Is a $230 RGB Macropad for Bossing Around Codex Agents
OpenAI’s first step into branded hardware is not a robot, a wearable, or the mysterious screenless AI companion everyone keeps…
Bolt Wants to Crash the GPU Competition and It’s Starting With Creators, Not Gamers
For a market that has spent years acting like “GPU competition” means choosing which Nvidia card you can’t afford this…
GTA VI’s Price Tag Is Official, and Rockstar Just Told the Entire Industry to Buckle Up
For months, everyone knew Grand Theft Auto VI was going to be expensive. The only real mystery was whether Rockstar would stop…
PC vs Smartphone: The Business of Obsolescence
PC vs smartphone is a comparison that usually revolves around performance, gaming, or productivity. PCs are more powerful, smartphones are…
AI-Generated Video Sounds Efficient. Reality Is More Expensive
When companies like iQiyi talk about using AI to produce the majority of their content within the next five years,…
From Prompt to Execution: What GPT-5.5 Actually Does in Real Workflows
For years, we’ve been arguing about how smart AI is. Wrong debate. The real question was always: Can it actually do the…