CHIPS & AI
CES 2025: From Chatbots to Agents
CES 2025 moves from chatbots to agents: Nvidia's Jensen keynote, Project Digits, the RTX 50 series, Snapdragon X AI PCs, and Afeela…
CHIPS & AI
CES
CES 2025: NVIDIA’s Blackwell Era, Project DIGITS, and AI Everywhere
CES 2025, held January 7-10 in Las Vegas, belonged to NVIDIA. Jensen Huang delivered a barnstorming keynote that set the tone for…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
CES 2025: Nvidia RTX 50, AI Agents, and Robots Ready for the Real World
CES 2025 opens in Las Vegas, and the keynotes from Nvidia and Qualcomm set the tone: AI agents and physical AI are…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
2024: The Year AI Became Infrastructure and Mobile Hit New Heights
2024 will be remembered as the year AI went from buzzword to bedrock. Every major tech platform embedded generative AI into its…
MOBILE & SMARTPHONES
Snapdragon 8 Elite and On-Device AI: A Deep Dive from the Insider Program
The Snapdragon 8 Elite represented a step-change in on-device AI performance when it launched in late 2024, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insider content…
AI
Google Gemini 2.0: Better Benchmarks, Same Sovereignty Problem
Google just released Gemini 2.0, and the question nobody is asking is the right one. The model is 20% better at reasoning…
AI
Google Bets Multimodal, AMD Bets Memory, Apple Bets Control: Only One Survives
Google shipped Gemini 2.0, AMD shipped the MI300X with 180GB HBM3, Apple shipped the M4 Neural Engine. Three bets on where the…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Game Awards 2024: Astro Bot Wins GOTY in the Year’s Biggest Surprise
The Game Awards 2024 pulled off the year’s biggest upset in gaming: Astro Bot by Team Asobi won Game of the Year…
GAMING
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Is the Adventure Game We Deserved
MachineGames delivered something genuinely surprising with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, launched December 6, 2024. The Swedish studio behind Wolfenstein brought…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
OPPO Find X8: The Post-Hasselblad Era and the European Return
November 2024. OPPO's 20th anniversary: 104 million smartphones shipped, 8.5% global market share, fourth place worldwide. The Find X8 series drops Hasselblad,…
AI
McDonald’s Is a Tech Company, and Chicago Should Say So
McDonald's runs one of the most used consumer AI platforms on the planet from its Chicago HQ, and the city should claim…
AI
Why Chicago Is Becoming a Serious AI Hub
Chicago's AI ecosystem: world-class research from UChicago, TTIC, Argonne, and Fermilab; enterprise-focused applied AI in healthtech and logistics; talent costs well below…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Xiaomi 15 Pro: Snapdragon 8 Elite and Leica Summilux Lead the 2025 Charge
Xiaomi is first to market with the Snapdragon 8 Elite in the 15 and 15 Pro. The Pro keeps the 1-inch Sony…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Qualcomm FY2024: $39.1B Revenue, 55% Automotive Growth, Amon Eyes PC and AI Frontier
Qualcomm’s fiscal year 2024 results are in, and the diversification story has never been stronger. The company posted revenues of $39.1 billion,…
APPLE
MacBook Pro M4: 16GB Standard RAM, Apple Intelligence, Best Laptop Yet
Apple just refreshed its entire MacBook Pro lineup with the M4 chip family, and this generation is particularly special. Every MacBook Pro…