Smartphones can help children socialise AYO Production/Shutterstock A survey of more than 1500 children suggests that smartphones can be beneficial to their mental and social well-being – unless they start using social media. Justin Martin at the University of South Florida surveyed children between the ages of 11 and 13 in the state to open…
Matrox returns with dual-GPU card built for synchronized multi-display setups A380 Octal supports up to eight 5K screens and high-end audio Quad version offers fewer outputs, less power, for simpler installations One of Nvidia’s earliest rivals, Matrox was well known in the 1990s for its high-quality graphics cards. Although it eventually moved away from the…
Outdated tech stacks are more than annoying; they’re driving top developers out of the industry Developers tie their identity to tech stacks, and they’re quitting when they feel embarrassed by them Modern innovation can’t happen when devs are trapped in outdated frameworks and dead-end systems A growing number of developers are rethinking their careers due…
Apple has withdrawn one of its encryption services from UK customers slandstock / Alamy A former cyber security chief has called the UK government “naive” for demanding that Apple add a backdoor to its software – allowing the UK’s intelligence agencies to snoop on customers’ data – and expecting the request to remain secret. Ciaran…
The ARC-AGI-2 benchmark is designed to be a difficult test for AI models Just_Super/Getty Images The most sophisticated AI models in existence today have scored poorly on a new benchmark designed to measure their progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) – and brute-force computing power won’t be enough to improve, as evaluators are now taking…
Getting an AI to write software for you? That’s vibe coding ronstik/Alamy Want to write software, but haven’t got the first clue where to start? Enter “vibe coding”, a term that has swept the internet to describe the use of AI tools, including large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, to generate computer code even if…
Quantum computers theoretically offer advantages over ordinary machines Quantinuum Quantum computers could soon be able to solve genuinely useful mathematical problems faster than classical computers, claims quantum computing firm Quantinuum. It would be the first example of these exotic machines showing a true advantage over ordinary devices. Such problems relate to a branch of mathematics…
Cortical Labs offers cloud access to neuron-powered computing for just $300 a week CL1 fuses human brain cells and silicon and can run real code System enables real-time neural processing for research in AI and neuroscience Cortical Labs, an Australian startup we’ve covered previously, has launched what it describes as the world’s first commercially available…
A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of atoms, according to a study from the University of Michigan. The findings come from the first quantum-mechanical simulations of quasicrystals — a type of solid that scientists once thought couldn’t exist. While the atoms in quasicrystals…
The latest Steam beta runs natively on Apple silicon Apple is retiring the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer Games should run more smoothly and more efficiently Following WWDC 2025, we’ve had a flurry of Apple announcements this week, including the news that macOS Tahoe 26 will be the last version to support Intel Macs – and…
