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Atari buys Intellivision, bringing an end to the original console war

The big picture: Despite being just shadows of their former selves, the Atari and Intellivision brands are still on the market almost 50 years after their original introduction. Atari has now acquired its historical competitor, bringing hundreds of classic games under one common roof.

PC gamers face higher hardware costs as tariffs on Chinese goods set to return

Mass layoffs hit the gaming industry: 10,100 jobs lost this year so far, compared to 10,500 in all of 2023

VMware price hike forces Australian company with 24,000 virtual machines to jump ship

Nvidia reports record revenue amid global AI boom, up 262% year-over-year

Why everyone wants to be a chief AI officer or "CAIO" – this is what it takes

From Nvidia to The Trump Organization: The best and worst reputable companies in 2024

In brief: Which companies do you think have the best reputation among Americans, and which have the worst? Tech firms happen to make up much of the top and bottom ten on the list of 100 brands' reputation rankings, with the star of the moment, Nvidia, sitting in the number one spot.

Google is now the world's third-largest data center processor designer

Dell showcases hybrid AI approach, merging cloud and on-premises solutions

Forward-looking: Getting companies interested in deploying generative AI applications is no longer a challenge for tech suppliers. Figuring out how to best use the technology, however, is still difficult for many of these business customers. One new technique that Dell discussed at its Dell Tech World event in Las Vegas is the concept of hybrid AI, where some of the work happens in the cloud, but some is done on premises within an organization's data centers.

AMD unveils new Epyc 4004 server CPUs spanning a range of price points

Pioneer of minicomputer revolution Gordon Bell dies at 89

RIP: Gordon Bell, a true visionary of the computer age, has passed away at the age of 89. The computing luminary leaves behind an incredible legacy as one of the key architects who helped usher in the modern era of minicomputers and personal computing.

Humane, maker of the critically savaged Ai Pin, is looking to sell the company for up to $1 billion

TSMC's EUV machines have a remote kill switch should China attempt a hostile takeover

Apple's secret meeting with TSMC could be a move to lock down chipmaker's 2nm tech

Autonomous trucking gets real with Volvo and Aurora's production-ready driverless big rig

CEO pay hits record highs: Meet the top earners

Ghost of Tsushima is PlayStation's most successful single-player release on Steam

How the Dreamcast almost bankrupted Nvidia before a Sega executive saved the company

Decades-old programming languages Fortran and Cobol are still thriving

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, and neither seem unwilling to go out of fashion as new technological advancements like AI keep old skills relevant.

AWS plans major European expansion with €7.8 billion investment in sovereign data center

Unbuilt data centers in high demand as firms secure space years in advance

Why is Apple making a data center chip?

Editor's take: Of course, Apple is designing its own AI chips for its data centers. This will give them an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge AI system that its competitors will not be able to match anytime soon.

Acoustic attacks could be a serious threat to the future of underwater data centers

OpenAI partners with Reddit to put users' posts in ChatGPT

TikTok is testing a new option to upload 60-minute videos, YouTube style