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CES  Microsoft is continuing its push for users to adopt its new software paradigm, declaring 2025 "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh" and reminding everyone that Windows 10's end-of-support date is just around the corner.…

Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu

CES  Nvidia has announced a desktop computer powered by a new GB10 Grace-Blackwell superchip and equipped with 128GB of memory to give AI developers, researchers, and students the tools they need to run large models on the desktop.…

TOPS, SCHMOPS, says Chipzilla, our NPUs may be slow but that doesn't matter

CES  Intel has announced new silicon for the edge, and products for laptops that lack one.…

Hopes to elbow out competition on Arm-based hardware

CES  Qualcomm has unveiled the latest addition to its Snapdragon X Series of Arm-based chips to power Copilot+ PCs, targeting systems in the $600 range.…

Brazilian beauty queen Gabrielly Palácio has been stripped of her crown after a bizarre video captured the moment 19-year-old model allegedly attacked cats with a firecracker.

Complaints range from the mayor being AWOL in Africa to fire hydrants running out of water and electricity to power cables being left on to fuel the flames, which have so far killed two people.

Make America irate again

CES  The Consumer Technology Association has issued some fresh predictions for how much more Americans may have to pay for their hardware if Donald Trump's hard-line import tariffs are imposed.…

Plus: A peek at Nvidia's latest hype

CES  AMD unleashed a flood of CPUs at the annual CES super-conference this week in Las Vegas – chips that span the gamut from high-end desktop processors to those aimed at gaming notebooks, handhelds and, yes, so-called AI PCs.…

DAN HODGES: What will it take before Keir Starmer finally gets it? Or for any of his MPs who are preparing to block a full public inquiry into the rape and abuse of thousands of working-class British girls, to get it?

After months of being 'plagued with suspicions,' Furness, 68, can now move on, according to insiders, who claim the images served to confirm that her fears were warranted.

After 15 minutes of taut tussles with the Prime Minister, Kemi Badenoch concluded her PMQs remarks by naming some of the towns where gangs 'systematically gang-raped children'.

An asylum seeker who was living on the Bibby Stockholm barge when he violently assaulted a fellow immigrant last summer has appeared in court wearing a pair of trainers worth £185.

Officials from the Crown Prosecution Service will now examine the dossier before deciding whether to press charges, in a development that will cause serious concerns at his club.

Crane operator Antony Maxwell, 21, was nearly three times the drink driving limit when he fell from the fifth floor after going out for a cigarette at the Kahya Aqua Resort and Spa in Antalya Turkey.

The World Health Organization has finally commented on the viral outbreak of HMPV in China that has fueled pandemic fears, claiming the situation was 'not unusual.'

Elli Jafari, the Groucho Club's first female chief executive, has resigned just months after an alleged rape on its Soho premises in November, which prompted the venue's closure.

HashiCorp co-founder's side project reaches 1.0 – er, 1.0.1

Ghostty is more interesting than it sounds, for several reasons: Who wrote it, what it does, and the language it was written in are all more unusual than the ostensibly simple task it performs.…

Laura Barbier, 20, a student from Liege, in Belgium, had travelled to Milan, Italy, with five friends aged 20 and 21 to celebrate the New Year.

An anonymous reader shares a report: It looks like Samsung is finally ready to roll out a paid subscription for its AI-powered smartphones, but it might not look like what we were expecting. According to ETNews, Samsung Electronics vice chair Han Jong-hee has confirmed that the company's AI Subscription Club, which launched last December for some of Samsung's home appliances in South Korea, will soon roll out to both Galaxy phones and the upcoming Ballie AI robot. "We will apply the subscription service to Galaxy smartphones starting next month," he says. "Ballie will be introduced first in Korea and the US, and we plan to supply it as a subscription in Korea."

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Several top hotels like the Beverly Hills Hotel, The Four Seasons Beverly Hills, the Peninsula Hotel and the Waldorf Astoria are all sold out.