This fall, Nvidia will officially become a consumer PC chipmaker like Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm, putting a complete computing chip — not just graphics — into the very heart of laptops and mini-PCs. After many months of leaks, it’s finally announcing the RTX Spark, the first in a family of chips that will meet … Read More “Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’” »
According to Crunchbase’s latest data around black founders, $643 million has poured into US Black-founded startups since the beginning of the year — an amount not seen since 2022, when Black founders raised $653 million in funding. For context, Black founders raised $942 million of all venture dollars last year (that’s 0.32% of the $290 … Read More “Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a catch” »
The vivo S60 series is now official in China with two members – the vivo S60 and S60 Vitality Edition. They share similar specs, but the S60 packs a more capable chipset and a 3x telephoto camera. vivo S60 (left) and S60 Vitality Edition (right) Both phones are built around 6.59-inch AMOLED … Read More “vivo S60 and S60 Vitality Edition arrive with 6.59” AMOLEDs and 7,200mAh batteries” »
Buckle up: Nvidia is “reinventing the personal computer,” according to CEO Jensen Huang. Microsoft and Nvidia have been cozying up to one another in preparation for Nvidia’s highly anticipated launch of the RTX Spark. It’s a new Arm-based system-on-chip (or “SoC”) platform that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture to thin and light Windows laptops and mini … Read More “Nvidia RTX Spark May Light a Fire for Windows on Arm” »
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s Mini Crossword is kind of fun. Some of the answers build on the ones before them. The answer to 4-Across is … Read More “Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for June 1” »
Once upon a time, Microsoft had to write off $900 million betting an Arm-based Nvidia chip could power its first flagship Windows portable, the original Microsoft Surface. But today, it’s trying again. Microsoft and Nvidia have just announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a computer with a new Arm-based Nvidia chip at its core. There’s a … Read More “This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark” »
Once the full survey begins this summer, Rubin is expected to produce 7 million alerts and 20 terabytes of data a night. For just one example of how this firehose of data is expected to transform our understanding of the cosmos, consider supernovas, the brilliant death throes of exhausted stars. Back in the late 1990s, … Read More “Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors” »
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Best Buy Canada has listed June 25, 2026, as the release date for the highly anticipated Google Home Speaker. Google still maintains that the speaker is coming in “Spring 2026” and hasn’t announced a specific launch date. When Android Authority recently asked about availability, Google said it would share … Read More “The new Google Home Speaker might finally arrive this month after a long wait” »
NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage for his GTC Taipei keynote at 8PM PT / 11PM ET. You can watch all the announcements here and embedded below. Rumors have been flying about what to expect from today’s presentation, but the big one is the possibility of a partnership with Microsoft and … Read More “How to watch Nvidia’s Computex keynote” »
Box founder Aaron Levie got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to unpack Levie’s comment. For one thing, we noted that he isn’t disavowing AI … Read More “Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis” »
