Month: July 2025
Star Trek, superheroes, and lots of Stephen King: the best of SDCC 2025
Another San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone, and while there were no explosive reveals like last year’s surprise appearance of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, there were quite a few interesting developments. That includes several Star Trek spinoffs, a new sci-fi show on Apple TV Plus, trailers for…
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Nvidia’s N1X consumer chip pops up in benchmark equalling core count of RTX 5070 GPU – cue excited gasps, but let’s not get carried away
Nvidia’s N1X chip has been spotted in a Geekbench result The specs show the integrated GPU has 6,144 CUDA cores That equals the RTX 5070 for pure core count, but there’s much more to factor in when it comes to performance Remember Nvidia’s rumored CPU that caused quite a buzz…
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Microsoft starts rolling out Xbox age verification in the UK
Microsoft is starting to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act by prompting Xbox players to verify their age today. The prompts will be shown to Xbox players who indicate they’re over the age of 18 and will be shown when you sign into an Xbox account in the UK.…
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The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse
People across the United Kingdom have been faced with a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape since the country introduced its latest digital safety rules on Friday. The Online Safety Act mandates that web service operators must use “highly effective” age verification measures to stop kids from accessing a wide…
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Wi-Fi signals could be used to uniquely identify individuals — WhoFi complements biometrics prompting privacy fears
WhoFi uses Wi‑Fi signal distortions to fingerprint individuals without visual data Deep neural network maps signal changes to identify people with near‑perfect accuracy Academic research opens new privacy debates around biometric tracking via Wi‑Fi signals Researchers at La Sapienza University in Rome have created WhoFi, a system which claims to…
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The first Star Trek: Starfleet Academy trailer is filled with Easter eggs
We've known Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was coming for a while now, but we finally have some real footage. Paramount just dropped a trailer, in addition to an official announcement that the show will premiere in "early 2026." For the uninitiated, the show is set at the titular Starfleet Academy…
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