Nick Farrell

After the OpenAI reset, he wants speed, talent and fewer meetings Softwar King of the World Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, has spent this year reshaping senior leadership to keep the 50-year-old software giant ahead in AI, after it reworked its relationship with OpenAI. He has made...

Bigger panels, faster refresh and an on-device AI upscaler LG Electronics says its new premium gaming monitor brand, UltraGear evo, will feature 5K and 5K2K gaming panels in OLED, New MiniLED and ultra-wide formats, with speed and immersion bolted on. The range will launch globally and sit above the...

Developers are concerned about AI slop DeepMind and World Labs reckon AI can spit out new interactive 3D worlds, while developers are worried about AI slop, cost cuts and another round of “disruption”. AI is coming for the games industry again, this time with grand claims about generating whole inte...

Even builders admit they are a long way from a product Humanoid robot startups are drowning in billions of dollars as investors dream of humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. The only problem is that it is all hype. Agility Robotics chief technology officer Pras Velagapud...

A few trillion here, a few trillion there, and suddenly you are talking about real money Big Tech companies have moved more than $120 billion of data centre spending off their balance sheets using special purpose vehicles funded by the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street, stirring fresh jitters about t...

Too many pixels, not enough puff Some panel makers are pushing 5K gaming monitors at punters, but the reality is that normal players will be waiting a while before they make any sense outside marketing decks. Asus has been parading its new 27-inch ROG Strix 27 Pro gaming monitor, which features a 5,...

Memory prices are bonkers so punters get the screwdriver Maingear has decided that DDR5 pricing madness can do one and is letting buyers supply their own memory instead. The boutique PC builder has rolled out what it calls BYO RAM builds, allowing customers to order a fully built system with no DDR5...

Old DDR4 rigs are trendy again. DDR5 pricing is turning PC building into a bad joke, so many people are crawling back to the older AM4 platform. AM4 CPUs have a near 34 per cent market share at Mindfactory, and they have also grabbed four spots on the Amazon US top 10 best-sellers list. With DDR5 RA...

Vince Zampella dead at 55 Co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise and co-founder of Infinity Ward, Vince Zampella, has died in a single-car accident in Los Angeles,  NBC Los Angeles reports. He was 55. According to the NBC report, "the single-car crash was reported at about 12:45 p.m. on t...

Mobile hogs the spotlight while PC creeps up on consoles. Beancounters at analyst outfit Newzoo have added up some numbers, divided by their shoe size, and concluded that the global video games business will pull in $197 billion in 2025. The analyst outfit puts that at a 7.5 per cent year-on-year ju...