Hatsushima is not a particularly busy station, relative to Japanese rail commuting as a whole. It serves a town (Arida) of about 25,000, known for mandarin oranges and scabbardfish, that is shrinking in population, like most of Japan. Its station sees between one to three trains per hour at its stop, helping about 530 riders…
Microsoft continues to tweak the Windows 11 UI in other ways as well. A beta build released to Windows Insider testers earlier this month enables “taskbar icon scaling,” which can shrink your taskbar icons to a smaller size to make more of them if you have enough apps pinned or opened at the same time…
There aren’t many phones these days that come with a stylus, and those that do tend to be very expensive. If you can’t swing a Galaxy S25 Ultra, Motorola’s G Stylus lineup could be just what you need. The new 2025 Moto G Stylus is now official, featuring several key upgrades while maintaining the same…
But the folks at Zipline don’t seem to like that term. Everyone I spoke with referred to the various craft hovering, buzzing, or gliding overhead as aircraft. That’s for good reason. Not your average UAV Go buy a drone at an electronics retailer, something from DJI perhaps, and you’ll have to abide by a series…
With its C1 5G chip and huge networking tech development division, Apple is in the networking business. So, the company is heavily enmeshed in the development of the next-generation 6G networking standard. Apple shared its vision and priorities for the in-development 6G standard at a recent 3GPP workshop session in Seoul, where it stressed the need…
China has announced immediate export controls on seven more rare earth elements critical to enterprise IT hardware manufacturing, firing a fresh salvo in the ongoing tech trade war. This move could significantly impact tech giants including Dell Technologies, HP, Apple, and IBM, along with semiconductor leaders such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC. The new controls issued by…
Over the weekend, Meta took the opportunity to launch Llama 4, a new series of AI models trained on a large amount of text, images and videos. According to Meta, Llama 4 is better than its competitors GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 in a number of areas, including programming, reasoning and language translation. The two variants…
Anthropic plans to add more than 100 roles across Europe, indicating a broader push to expand its global footprint amid rising demand for enterprise-ready AI tools. The new roles will cover sales, engineering, research and business operations, with most hiring focused in Dublin and London, according to a Reuters report. The company has also named…
As generative AI continues to dominate technology news, the hype around AI PCs is growing. It’s easy to see the appeal of personal computers powerful enough to handle genAI processing tasks. Offered by all the major PC vendors, AI PCs include hardware and software designed to accelerate AI workloads across the central processing unit (CPU),…
Intel is reportedly in advanced discussions with TSMC to form a joint venture that could potentially reshape the future of the x86 platform and the global semiconductor landscape. Under a proposed deal, TSMC would take a 20% stake in a new entity operating Intel’s chipmaking facilities, in exchange for training Intel personnel in its industry-leading…