Dell moves from pushing “AI PCs” and back to what matters in laptops. After making the obviously poor decision to kill its XPS laptops and desktops in January 2025, Dell started selling 16- and 14-inch XPS laptops again today. “It was obvious we needed to change,” Jeff Clarke, vice…
The Trump admin can’t arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate. One of the first signs of what would become an ongoing attack on scientific research came when the Trump administration ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to radically reduce research funding for universities. These funds,…
Four new monitors promise “effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor.” It’s been almost exactly two years since Nvidia announced G-Sync Pulsar, its new backlight strobing technology designed to limit display motion blur caused by old images persisting on the viewer’s retina. At the time, Nvidia said…
Trump administration had suspended Danish group’s work on major wind farm off coast of Rhode Island. Ørsted is seeking a court injunction against the Trump administration’s decision to suspend its work on a major wind farm project off the US northeast coast. In the latest salvo between the US…
AI will help drive you and entertain you, according to Sony Honda Mobility. Six years after Sony first announced its automotive ambitions, everything is looking a lot more concrete. Production of the Afeela 1, the electric sedan that has been developed by Sony Honda Mobility, is already underway in…
New chips launch “this month,” targeting high-end ultraportable PCs. Intel will formally launch its first Core Ultra Series 3 laptop processors later this month, the company announced at its CES keynote today. Codenamed Panther Lake and targeted, at least for now, at high-end ultraportable PCs, the Core Ultra 3…
But it may become slightly cheaper to buy AMD’s fastest integrated Radeon GPUs. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and other chip companies usually have some kind of news to announce at CES to kick off the year, but some of those announcements are more interesting than others. Sometimes you see new…
The changes are modeled after a small country with universal health care. Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health officials on Monday announced a sweeping and unprecedented overhaul of federal vaccine recommendations, abruptly paring down recommended immunizations for children from 17 to 11. Officials claimed the…
Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data. Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that’s among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the…
Cheifet produced more than 400 episodes of TV tracing the rise of personal computing. Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died on December 28, 2025, at age 87 in Philadelphia. Cheifet created and hosted Computer Chronicles,…
