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Toyota’s AI and robotics-powered ‘Woven City’ set to open this year
Toyota’s futuristic Woven City will open this year at the base of Mt. Fuji and will initially house employees and their families.
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New Solana proposal aims to fix scalability issues with ‘lattice’ system
A new Solana improvement document aims to address the “state growth problem” by introducing a lattice-based hashing function.
Reddit avatar NFT holders concerned for project as lead exits
The lead of Reddit’s avatar NFT offering has left, sparking concerns from the platform’s users over whether the social giant will retain the program.
Bitcoin Traders Eye $109K as Trump Anticipation Builds, BTC ETFs Rake in Nearly $1B
A return to markets after the holidays and anticipation of Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president is building bullish sentiment for bitcoin and the broader crypto market. The asset is up 10% in the past week, retaking the $102,000 level late Monday and reversing nearly all losses from early December. It fell from a peak … Read more
This Crypto Fund Blew Past Bitcoin’s 121% Price Gain in 2024
Bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency by market value, surged 121% last year to cross the six-figure mark, outshining traditional assets. However, this performance falls short in comparison to Pythagoras Investment Management’s Alpha Long Biased Strategy, which pushed the envelope even further. The fund, which combines a BTC base position with two uncorrelated strategies, achieved an … Read more
US crypto excitement akin to ‘space race’ under Trump: TRM Labs exec
“We’re seeing people up and down the Cabinet who have been supportive of digital assets, innovation, and AI,” said TRM Labs’ Ari Redbord.
Nvidia is bringing a native GeForce Now app to Steam Deck
Photo by The Verge Nvidia plans to release a native GeForce Now app for Steam Deck “later this year,” according to a blog post. It’s already relatively straightforward to get Nvidia’s cloud gaming service set up on Steam Deck thanks to a special script from Nvidia, but a native app should be easier to install … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs roar back with second day of $900M+ inflows
While the spot Bitcoin ETFs smashed industry expectations in 2024, the products finished poorly with outflows in six of the last eight trading days.
Nvidia’s AI NPCs are no longer chatbots — they’re your new PUBG teammate
Nvidia has spent the last two years showing off its digital “ACE” characters that can have in-game conversations with you using generative AI. But at CES 2025, the company is taking the ACE characters a step further by showing how they can be “autonomous game characters” — including, sometime this year, a teammate to help … Read more
The ROG Strix Scar 16 and 18 come with a lid that lights up and more RGB
Plenty of lights to go around. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Following a teaser last month, Asus’ latest ROG Strix Scar gaming laptops have arrived and they’re leaning all the way into the gamer aesthetic. The 2025 Scar 16 and 18 come with RGB lights all the way around the … Read more
Asus just announced the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU
The 2025 Asus XG Mobile, now with standard Thunderbolt 5 instead of a proprietary connector. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge This smoky black translucent box isn’t a gaming PC — instead, it might be the most powerful single-cable portable docking station ever conceived. When you plug your laptop or handheld … Read more
Asus’ latest ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet uses AMD’s new integrated graphics
The 2025 Asus ROG Flow Z13. Asus has a new version of its Surface Pro-like gaming tablet for CES, and it’s making some sizable changes both inside and out. The Asus ROG Flow Z13 for 2025 is once again a slightly chunky, almost-half-inch-thick, 13-inch tablet with a built-in kickstand, magnetic keyboard cover, a bunch of … Read more
Zythum Re-Review (Sinclair ZX Spectrum)
Recap In the spring of 2021, I wrote my first retrogaming article in the form of a review for the 1986 cult action/platformer Zythum (pronounced “Zai-thum”) for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which I praised highly for its unconventional gameplay and intuitive controls. I have decided to revisit the game, as this will be my last … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs scooped up almost 3X more BTC than produced in December
Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States hoovered up a whopping 51,500 BTC in December while only a fraction of that was produced.
Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. “[Project Digits] runs the entire Nvidia AI stack — all of Nvidia software runs on this,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said onstage during a press conference … Read more
Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction
Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including, 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier … Read more
Acer’s Predator Helios 18 AI gaming laptop leans into 4K Mini LED
Image: Acer Acer has spec bumps and display upgrades for its top-of-the-line Predator Helios 18 and 16 gaming laptops coming later this year. Announced at CES, the Predator Helios 18 AI gaming laptop now sports a dual-mode Mini LED display that can switch between 4K with a 120Hz refresh rate or 240Hz when running at … Read more
The Razer Blade 16 is even thinner this year
The 2025 Razer Blade 16. Razer announced it’s overhauling the Razer Blade 16 inside and out. In addition to a new CPU and GPU, the Blade 16 is now thinner overall than the outgoing 2024 model and comes with a few tweaks to its audio system and keyboard. The new Blade 16 comes with up … Read more
Alienware’s flagship desktop finally ditches proprietary parts
The new Alienware Area-51 desktop. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Alienware has built some of the easiest-to-open toolless gaming PCs around — but for years, the Dell-owned brand has stifled their upgrade potential by limiting them to Dell’s own proprietary power supplies and motherboards. But the 2025 Alienware Area-51, an … Read more
Alienware’s 27-inch 4K 240Hz OLED monitor is only a couple months away
Image: Dell Alienware is joining Asus, Samsung, and MSI in making a silly “world’s first” claim — all four of them are now set to launch a genuinely exciting new wave of 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitors with an excellent 240Hz refresh rate. Remember when I called Alienware’s 32-inch version the best monitor of CES … Read more
Get ready for virtual AI cohosts that chat with Twitch stars and control their streams
Image: Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia are partnering on a new AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams in real time and even act as a quippy cohost. As a cohost, the “Intelligent Streaming Assistant” can understand what’s happening in games like Fortnite and offer “contextually … Read more
Toyota’s next-generation cars will be built with Nvidia supercomputers and operating system
Toyota announced at CES 2025 that its next-generation vehicles will have automated driving capabilities powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS. TechCrunch has reached out to Toyota to learn more about the automaker’s plans to deploy vehicles with autonomous capabilities. DriveOS is the operating system for Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle platform … Read more
Nvidia details Mega, a fleet manager for warehouse robots
Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most still lack significant automation. Companies like Locus Robotics have made significant headway in … Read more
Nvidia announces DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide running on a GeForce RTX 5090 at 4K | Image: Nvidia Nvidia is revealing a big upgrade to its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology today. DLSS 4 will include new neural rendering capabilities that, on systems with the new RTX 50 Series GPUs, can do Multi Frame Generation, generating “up to … Read more