At its CES press conference today, NVIDIA teased a new flagship GPU: the RTX 3090 Ti. It says more details will arrive soon, but handed out a few specs to tide its fans over until then. From a report: As a refresher, NVIDIA currently has the RTX 3090 a…
DuckDuckGo Just Finished a Banner Year
DuckDuckGo, a privacy-oriented search engine, netted more than 35 billion search queries in 2021, a 46.4% jump over 2020 (23.6 billion). From a report: That’s big. Even so, the company, which bills itself as the “Internet privacy company,” offering a s…
AMD Announces Ryzen 6000 Mobile CPUs for Laptops: Zen3+ on 6nm with RDNA2 Graphics
AnandTech: The notebook market is a tough nut to crack with a single solution. People want that mix of high performance at the top, cost effectiveness at the bottom, and throughout there has to be efficiency, utility, and function. On the back of a suc…
Sony Announces the World’s First QD-OLED 4K TV
Sony is setting some pretty grand expectations with its 2022 TV lineup — led by the introduction of the world’s first consumer QD-OLED TV. From a report: The company’s current and well-regarded OLED sets use panels from LG Display that are tuned with …
Amazon Aims To Increase Influence On K-12 Schools and Make Kids Hardware-Savvy
theodp writes: A job posting for a US Senior Manager, Amazon Future Engineer reveals Amazon’s ambitious expansion plans for K-12 CS education in the U.S. and beyond: “We believe computer science can unleash creativity and unlock human potential. Amazon…
Wordle Is a Love Story
Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it Wordle. But after the couple played for months, and after it rapidly became…
US Catches Kremlin Insider Who May Have Secrets of 2016 Hack
In the days before Christmas, U.S. officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally ma…
Morgan Stanley To Pay $60 Million To Settle Data-Breach Claims
Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $60 million to settle a class action suit by consumers claiming the firm failed to safeguard their personal information. From a report: The agreement, if approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, would resolve claims over t…
OpenSea Freezes $2.2M of Stolen Bored Apes
An anonymous reader shares a report: NFT marketplace OpenSea has frozen 16 Bored Ape and Mutant Ape nonfungible tokens (NFT) after they were reportedly stolen yesterday from a New York art gallery operator. In total, one Clonex, seven Mutant Ape Yacht …
Climate Scientists Grapple With Wildfire Disaster in Their Backyard
The wind-whipped firestorm that tore through parts of Boulder County, Colorado, on Thursday struck at the heart of one of America’s top climate science and meteorology research hubs. From a report: Now some of the top minds who study how climate change…