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In southwestern Angola, an expanse of coastal plains comes to an abrupt end at a natural barrier. The Huíla plateau soars above the lowlands to elevations of around 2,300 meters (7,500 feet). The sharp transition results in dramatic landscapes and a sudden change from an arid environment to more-temperate climes. The serrated edge of the Huíla plateau zigzags through this image, which is a mosaic of scenes acquired on June 19 and 20, 2025, with the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) and OLI on the Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 satellites, respectively. Areas around the plateau’s edges appear green with vegetation. But the landscape…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. As CES 2026 kicks off, right out of the gate, we have one of the biggest surprises of the show as far as laptops go, and that is the return of the Dell XPS 14 and XPS 16.Last year, Dell underwent a major overhaul of its laptop lines, consolidating them under a kind of grid scheme of Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max laptops, each with a base…
Back in September, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chipsets for Windows on Arm laptops, and today it’s introducing the cheaper option in the portfolio, the Snapdragon X2 Plus. This is the successor to the Snapdragon X Plus from September 2024. The Snapdragon X2 Plus uses the third generation Oryon CPU and it has an 80 TOPS NPU. It’s made on a 3nm process. It comes in two versions – 10-core and 6-core. The 10-core version has 34MB of total cache, and a maximum multithread frequency of 4GHz. The 6-core version obviously has six CPU…
Nuclear energy has had a tough few decades, bedeviled by high costs and waning public support. But AI’s appetite for electricity could be a shot in the arm for the beleaguered industry.AI’s energy demands are rising quickly, with global data center electricity use expected to double by the end of the decade. And nuclear power’s ability to provide large amounts of emission-free baseload power is hugely attractive for AI firms trying to balance their energy needs against climate commitments.Google, Amazon, Meta, and major data center operators are signing power-purchase agreements with existing reactors, investing in the development of advanced small-modular…
Clicks is tapping into nostalgia and frustration with the launch of the Clicks Communicator, a phone designed less for endless scrolling and more for focused communication. With a physical keyboard, compact display, and deliberate feature set, it feels like a modern answer to the BlackBerry philosophy, updated for 2026. At its core, the Clicks Communicator is built around typing. The touch-sensitive physical keyboard offers tactile feedback while also allowing users to scroll through messages and webpages without leaving the keys. A built-in fingerprint sensor is hidden in the spacebar, letting users unlock the phone and jump straight into the message…
I spend a lot of time with my folks, and even when we aren’t together, we’re typically always on the phone for one reason or another. Connecting with my mom is easy — she throws her AirPods in, and we’re able to talk with little to no issues. My Dad, on the other hand, is a bit more difficult to connect with. Even with a rather loud Motorola Razr, he still has to throw me on speakerphone, no matter where he is. After seeing someone wearing a pair of bone conduction headphones during a video call, I had an idea…
TL;DR Acer has unveiled updated versions of its Swift and Aspire laptops at CES 2026 with major hardware upgrades, including new Intel Core Ultra processors. The Swift 16 AI features the world’s largest haptic touchpad, while the Swift Edge 14 AI weighs just 900g. The refreshed lineups introduce Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and a new “Acer My Key” programmable hotkey. Acer is taking the stage at CES 2026 to unveil a range of new products, including updated monitors and refreshed gaming laptops. But that’s not all, as the company is also announcing upgrades to its existing line of consumer-focused laptops…
When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes.For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software development, with industry insiders calling it a watershed moment for the startup."If you're not reading the Claude Code best practices straight from its creator, you're behind as a programmer," wrote Jeff Tang, a…
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Last week, Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok began fielding an influx of stunningly inappropriate requests. Though the AI has long been known to have loose guardrails, users suddenly swarmed the AI to generate either nudes or sexually charged images of X users based on photos they posted to the site — and it obliged. Even worse, some of the individuals it took requests for appeared to be minors. The trend was so prolific that AI content analysis firm Copyleaks estimated the bot was generating a nonconsensually sexualized image every…
Hello! And I’m back, having shuffled halls to make it over to Hisense to see what’s happening. You can watch it live from Hisense’s website, which means you get to see all the moving images and sounds yourself, but you don’t want to do that, do you? No, you’d surely rather watch a very jetlagged man try to pick through what’s actually being said onstage and why. Yeah, stick with me for that. Oooh, it’s starting! LiveLast updated January 05, 2026 10:43 AMThe liveblog has ended.No liveblog updates yet.Load more