Prices are rising across the board, which could lead some to pick up a mid- range or a flagship killer phone instead of a premium flagship. If thats you, are you looking at the Poco X8 Pro or X8 Pro Max as your next phone? Poco X8 Pro and X8 Pro Max at a glance The Poco X8 Pro Max has a lot going for it with a Dimensity 9500s chipset (a derivative of the 9400 chip), a huge 8,500mAh battery with chart-topping endurance and fast charging, a great 6.83 display (12-bit, Dolby Vision), a decent ..

Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, in is "real financial jeopardy," according to a missive from its board members.

World-record RC car engineer begins redesigning his 3D-printed vehicle to chase a "slightly ridiculous" 250mph target.

Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about." Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of a "superfloppy", the Zip drive... [T]he initial ..

Last month, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said that the memory shortage could last until 2030. While its not exactly a difficult statement to understand, a more recent report provides more context to the claim. The report says that despite ramping up production, memory makers only expect to meet about 60% of demand by the [] The post Report: Memory Makers Only Expect To Meet 60% Of Demand By End 2027 appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil has reiterated the governments plan to introduce a minimum age limit of 16 for social media account ownership in Malaysia, stressing that enforcement remains on track as engagement sessions continue. Earlier this week, Fahmi confirmed that the government is targeting June 2026 for the social media age restriction rollout. He [] The post Fahmi Reiterates Push For Upcoming Social Media Age Limit Restriction appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Reports from people familiar with the DRAM market say that Samsung is accepting last orders for the LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X memory chips. Production will likely continue throughout 2026 in order to fulfill all orders. Once LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X modules are phased out, Samsung will convert the existing production lines to LPDDR5 manufacturing in the first quarter of 2027. It's no surprise that Samsung is shifting its efforts toward the newer DRAM generation, given the memory semiconductor supercycle ..

Malaysias EV policy is back in focus, following growing debate over the conditions surrounding BYDs local assembly plans in Tanjung Malim which is supposed to start this year. While the headlines may point to a single Chinese brand, the issue goes much deeper. In this episode of Lets Talk About, Amin and Alex unpack whats []

Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51. And there's been other changes, reports Entrepreneur: In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headlines after writing a memo calling the company "AI-first." In the memo, von Ahn announced that the language-learning platform would track employees' AI use in performance reviews. Now, a ..

The Huawei Pura 90 series will be debuting in China alongside the Pura X Max very soon. While the phone maker has only teased a few details regarding the devices, recent leaks have revealed some of their key specifications. These include information on the displays and imaging hardware. According to a Weibo post by tipster [] The post Huawei Pura 90 Series Key Specifications Leaked Ahead Of China Launch appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Earlier this week, vivo announced the start of the global rollout of the X300 Ultra and X300 FE with the exact date depending on the market its April 24 for Spain, for example. Also, the X300 Ultra is now up on Amazon with an eye- watering price tag of 2,000 (16GB/1TB). Based on the results from last weeks poll, the vivo X300 Ultra will be one of the main challengers in the upcoming Ultra battle. The phone received a very warm welcome with one caveat people are curious about the Oppo Find X9 ..

UBusiness, the enterprise arm of UMobile, recently completed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for high-value air cargo tracking. The PoC was done in partnership with Qualcomm and City-Link Express and leveraged 5G-IoT architecture, as well as Qualcomm's Terrestrial Positioning Service (TPS). "The PoC was initiated as air cargo shipments from City-Link Express Main Hub in [] The post UMobile, Qualcomm, And City-Link Express Conduct PoC For Air Cargo Tracking appeared first on ..

After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press: In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to have their company's lander ready first. Musk's Starship and Bezos' Blue Moon are vying for the all-important Artemis IV moon ..

With Google releasing the first Android 17 beta version in February, it's now smartphone manufacturers' turn to kickstart their beta programs. Motorola was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon and is doing so with a longer list of devices compared to last year. In addition to the Motorola Edge (2025), Moto G57 and Moto G57 Power, the list of all Motorola devices has been updated with several new devices. Here they are: Motorola Razr+ (2025) [USA] Motorola Razr+ (2024) [USA] Motorola Razr ..

BEIJING, April 19 More than 300 humanoid robots participating in Chinas second robot half-marathon today...

"A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor," writes The Guardian: Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings. His estate and daughter Mercedes collaborated with the film-makers on the visual deepfake of the actor. ..

A mosaic metasurface design integrates eleven optical functions, claiming that controlled disorder can enhance performance and reduce space requirements in optical systems.

This rare Microsoft bundle deal gives you a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows and Windows 11 Pro.

OnePlus is expected to launch its budget-friendly TWS buds called Buds Ace 3 sometime this month, succeeding the Buds Ace 2 that debuted in late 2024. So in a sense, the Buds Ace 3 are a bit overdue. OnePlus Buds Ace 3 Ahead of the near release, OnePlus teased the headphones on Weibo, revealing key details and a press render. The headphones are also up on the Chinese Oppo online store, confirming the imminent launch. It looks like the Ace 3 brings the most upgrades in two departments - battery ..

Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews: Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland... Marchand tore down the TCU, which is based on a Qualcomm system on a chip, and extracted the Linux-based file system from the Micron multi-chip package (MCP) which contained NAND-based non-volatile storage memory. The non-volatile storage contained sensitive information, including ..

Sony World Photography Award 2026's Wildlife category winner shares his setup for capturing unique photos of the animals in Masai Mara, Kenya, helping the park

"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities. The 54,000-student drop was "the biggest one-year drop of any major discipline going back to at least 2020." But what major are they choosing instead? ..

A new ultraviolet breakthrough improves laser precision, advancing nuclear clock research and opening possibilities for autonomous navigation in space and underwater environments.

Not everyone had the money for the original Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System when it released in the '90s, but there's still a chance to experience it as an adult with disposable income. SNK and Plaion Replai, who is also behind the all-black remake of the Commodore 64 , announced a faithful remake of the high-end retro console, called the Neo Geo AES+ . To bring the original console into the modern day, the collaborating companies added HDMI compatibility for resolutions up to 1080p and ..

The company is also extending software support for a variety of Fire TV devices.

Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved "a short-term extension" of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extension, but "failed to secure" the votes after "clamoring from some of their members for reforms to protect Americans' privacy." The warrantless surveillance law, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was set to expire on ..

A judge has granted the makers of the "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and the Eyes Up app a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from coercing platforms to take these projects down. Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois found that the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosado and Kreisau Group, are likely to succeed in their case, which alleges that the government suppressed protected speech under the First Amendment ..

Laser communication systems on Artemis II promise extreme data speeds compared to Apollo era radios, but still face environmental limitations.

Wednesday BleepingComputer reported that more than 30 WordPress plugins "have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them." A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instructions received from the command-and-control (C2) server. The compromise affects plugins with hundreds of thousands of active installations and was ..

If you didn't buy a Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold, you may have missed your window entirely.

Apple has secured a major victory for its redesigned smartwatches as per the latest decision from the US International Trade Commission. The federal agency ruled against reinstating an import ban on Apple Watches, allowing the tech giant to continue selling its devices with a reworked blood-oxygen monitoring technology. The ITC decided to terminate the case and refer to a preliminary ruling from one of its judges in March that claimed that Apple's redesigned smartwatches don't infringe on ..

Slashdot reader smazsyr writes: A new review says we've had fructose wrong for decades. The nine authors, led by Richard Johnson at the University of Colorado Anschutz, argue that fructose "is not just another calorie." It is a signal. It tells the liver to make fat and brace for a famine that never comes. That made sense for a bear fattening up on autumn berries. It makes less sense for a person drinking soda in March. The review reframes the WHO's sugar guideline, argues ScienceBlog.com, as ..

20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News as his parents drove him to federal prison in Connecticut. "I'm just scared," he said, calling the whole situation "extremely sad." Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what's been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history a data breach that concerned authorities so much, it prompted briefings with senior government officials inside the White House Situation Room. The breach pierced the ..

The US Department of Justice is siding with X, as the social media platform owned by Elon Musk navigates a criminal investigation unfolding in France. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal , the Justice Department characterized the French probe as "an effort to entangle the United States in a politically charged criminal proceeding aimed at wrongfully regulating through prosecution the business activities of a social media platform. France launched its investigation into X in July, ..

A critical WordPress plugin flaw allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain full administrative control, exposing websites to data theft and malware attacks.

The Oppo Find X9 Ultra is about to debut globally on April 21, but it won't come alone. Oppo's top-end handset will be joined by the Oppo Find X9s, adding to the global Find X9 series. Ahead of the release, the Find X9s popped up in a Geekbench 6 listing online showing off a Dimensity 9500s chipset, which is a toned-down version of the full-fledged Dimensity 9500 SoC. The Find X9s Pro, which is also expected to debut globally, runs on the latter chip. We already know what to expect from the ..

The Artemis II astronauts are settling back into life on Earth, but we're not quite tired yet of hearing about their amazing journey. There's a new PBS documentary now streaming on YouTube that dives into the Artemis program and the latest efforts to send humans to the moon again. Also this week, NASA shared some awesome images of a comet flying into the sun, the nonprofit American Rivers released its annual report on the most endangered rivers in the US and ESA posted a throwback image of Mars ..

If relaunched at the right price, the RTX 3060 could re-enter the market as a viable option in a segment facing increasing cost pressures.

MSI has put its Vector 16 gaming laptop on sale for just $1,529 at Newegg, offering a solid discount for a beastly hardware combo. You get a Core Ultra 7 255HX paired with a 140W RTX 5070 Ti, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, all of which are upgradeable. All that is backed up by a 90 Wh battery and displayed on a 144 Hz FHD+ screen.

Nextcloud joined a project to create a sovereign replacement for Microsoft Office called "Euro-Office". But after that project forked OnlyOffice, OnlyOffice suspended its partnership with Nextcloud. "They removed all references to our brand/attribute as required by our license," argued OnlyOffice CEO Lev Bannov on March 30th. ("The core issue here isn't just about what the AGPL license states, but about the additional provisions we, as the authors, have included... If the Euro-Office team ..