Researchers are looking at a pair of bacteria to help build on Mars. One produces oxygen and UV protection, the other makes a mineral that could bind Martian soil. The concept is promising but still highly speculative.
Someone got the PRAGMATA demo running on an Apple M4 Max Mac Studio, and it hit 97 frames per second. That’s through a translation layer, not a native port. The performance is impressive, but Capcom’s financial incentive to bring games to macOS seems almost non-existent.
Samsung’s QD-OLED tech is set for a massive 35% brightness jump in 2026 thanks to a new quantum dot formula. But despite this technical win, it’s still losing the wider TV war to LG’s more affordable OLED panels. Price and availability are the real hurdles.
Japan is proposing its first major overhaul to foreign investment rules since 2019, granting new powers to order retroactive divestments. The move targets high-risk investors, particularly from China, but experts don’t expect it to cool the inbound M&A boom, which hit $33 billion last year.
European quantum startups are getting serious funding, but they’re up against US tech giants with 15-year head starts. Public funds like the EIC are trying to de-risk investment, but is it enough to build global champions?
Avowed, one of 2025’s top RPGs, is ending its Xbox exclusivity. It launches on PlayStation 5 on February 17 alongside a major anniversary update for all platforms. The update includes dwarves, a new weapon type, and a challenging New Game+ mode.
Bose is walking back its plan to completely disable its SoundTouch wireless speakers. While they won’t be fully bricked, most cloud-based features will still vanish in May 2026, turning them into more basic streaming devices.
Security researchers found a scary new way to steal your data through ChatGPT. The “ZombieAgent” attack tricked the AI into leaking info from connected services like Gmail, one character at a time.
Nvidia is sitting on Chinese orders for over 2 million H200 AI chips but is refusing to ship them without full, upfront payment. This drastic move highlights the intense regulatory pressure and high-stakes financial risk in the US-China tech trade. The deal hinges on Beijing’s final approval.
Tech giants and NGOs are deploying AI to forecast where deforestation will happen next, shifting from monitoring to prediction. The goal is to stop illegal logging before it starts, but success hinges on human action and faces significant ethical and practical hurdles.
