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hardware 24.02.2026

OpenAI is releasing its first smart speaker with a camera capable of recognizing its user.

OpenAI enters the smart gadget market *Main product* The company's first hardware offering is a “smart” speaker with a camera. According to *The Information*, it will cost roughl...

hardware 24.02.2026

USDT could lose more this month than it did during the FTX collapse

In February, the market capitalization of USDT fell by almost $1.5 billion after a month of continuous growth and the crypto market’s decline in January. This is the steepest drop...

hardware 24.02.2026

Ubisoft confirmed the creation of two “very promising” games, Far Cry and a number of Assassin’s Creed projects, including one with multiplayer mode

Yves Guillemot, the head of Ubisoft, spoke in a Variety interview about upcoming projects for two key company franchises—*Assassin’s Creed* and *Far Cry*. - Far Cry: Two promising...

hardware 24.02.2026

NASA classifies the fall of the Boeing Starliner as a top-level incident comparable to shuttle disasters.

Brief Summary of NASA’s Investigation into the Unsuccessful Starliner Flight StageKey EventsNew NASA LeaderJared Isaacman (Jared Isaacman) began his own investigation after the Bo...

hardware 24.02.2026

Samsung plans to regain its position in the AI memory market by offering HBM4 at a price 20–30% higher than HBM3E.

New HBM‑memory round: Samsung tries to catch up with SK hynix In the face of growing demand for memory for AI applications, SK hynix has opened a “gold mine” by launching HBM3E mo...

hardware 23.02.2026

A student accuses ChatGPT of provoking psychosis—the bot made him believe he was an oracle

The Case A college student from Georgia, Darian DeCruise, has sued OpenAI. He claims that the GPT‑4o model underlying ChatGPT “convinced him he was an oracle” and led to a psychos...

hardware 23.02.2026

The first videos from YouTube entered the museum’s collection

Victoria and Albert Museum Revives the Origins of YouTube London, 2026 In the new exhibition “Design 1900‑Present” in South Kensington, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) sho...

hardware 23.02.2026

Amazon AI tried to “debug” AWS by completely rewriting the code, and the cloud went down for 13 hours

Amazon‑AI agent Kiro caused a major outage in AWS According to *Financial Times*, Amazon’s artificial intelligence agent known as Kiro was the cause of a large-scale failure in th...

hardware 23.02.2026

Windows 11 now fully supports MIDI 2.0

Microsoft Implements Full MIDI 2.0 Support in Windows 11 Microsoft announced the complete integration of the MIDI 2.0 standard at the operating system level. Starting with Windows...

hardware 23.02.2026

Discord will use artificial intelligence for age filtering, and the verification will be confirmed by human staff

Short summary In March 2026 Discord announced the launch of a global user age verification system. The goal is to allow the “teen mode” to be turned off and remove age restriction...

hardware 22.02.2026

Samsung turns Bixby into an AI chatbot for One UI 8.5

Samsung announced a Bixby update with Perplexity neural network support Recently Samsung posted and then quickly deleted a blog entry about a new experience interacting with the v...

hardware 22.02.2026

AMD broke the global record by overclocking the Radeon RX 9060 XT to 4,769 MHz

New world record for AMD acceleration: Radeon RX 9060 XT to 4.769 GHz AMD recently posted a video in which two well-known overclockers—Bill “Sampson” Alverson and Allen “Splave” G...