British government advises deleting old photos and emails to "save water"
UK government instructs citizens to delete old files, including photos and emails — because This could supposedly help save water during the national drought.
FX has launched the series Alien: Earth with the first two episodes
Alien: Earth, the first project in the xenomorph franchise set on our planet, has been released.
GSC unveils S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 roadmap for 2025 — engine upgrades, night vision devices and new missions
GSC Game World has presented the official development plan for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl for 2025. The second phase of ZoneKit and engine updates are waiting for us.
Samsung unveils the world's first Micro RGB TV
Samsung has announced the launch of a new Micro RGB TV. This is the world’s first device that combines micro-scale RGB LED backlighting with a giant 115-inch screen. According to the manufacturer, this solution offers high brightness, as well as color depth and realism.
Jellyfish take over NPP in France: clogged cooling filters lead to reactor shutdown
A flock of jellyfish in the north of France led to the shutdown of the Gravlin NPP, clogging the cooling filters.
New Firefox loads the processor by 100%: users ask Mozilla to stop playing with AI
In the pursuit of newfangled AI, Mozilla developers have managed to do something that a significant portion of Firefox users did not ask for. While the open source browser is slowly losing ground, the company is adding AI features to perform tasks that can hardly be called critical to the user experience.
Vivo V60 unveiled: triple Zeiss camera, 6500 mAh battery in the thinnest body, and price from $425
Vivo has introduced a new smartphone, the V60. This is a mid-range model with a focus on mobile photography and long battery life. This new model replaces the Vivo V50, which debuted in February this year, and has received a number of updates.
Apple MacBook screen can be shattered by a regular postcard — the manufacturer says it's not a bug, but a feature
It’s a real nightmare for an Apple MacBook owner to open the device and see a damaged screen. This result is extremely easy to achieve due to inattention.
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleads guilty to the TerraUSD stablecoin crash
Back in 2023, the co-founder of Terraform Labs was indicted on nine counts related to the TerraUSD collapse, which resulted in $40 billion in losses. On August 12, 2025, Do Kwon pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by electronic means and conspiracy to commit fraud. These charges could cost him up to 25 years in prison if they are run…
ETH targets $5K: Meanwhile, $152 million worth of traders' positions are liquidated
Ethereum continues to grow and set record after record. August 8 the maximum number of coins was in circulation — more than 121 million ETH. Moreover, 97% of the network’s addresses are currently in the profit zone. That is, the average cost of purchasing coins by these addresses is lower than the current market rate of $4,452.
League of Legends developer dumps McDonald's job posting to account booster — trolling for complaining about "job loss"
Riot Games is stepping up its fight against account boosting in League of Legends. The developer advised one of those who made money on it to get a job at McDonald’s.
The creators of "Wednesday" wrote the script for "Iron Man" before Robert Downey Jr. — Tony Stark was to be played by a "more starry-eyed" actor
It turns out that the creators of of the series “Wednesday” Al Gough and Miles Millar wrote a test script for the first Iron Man, long before Robert Downey Jr. was cast as Tony Stark.
"Kyivstar and the Ministry of Digital Transformation tested text messaging via Starlink and regular smartphones
Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov and Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov exchanged messages from smartphones using Starlink Direct to Cell.
"Old" gamers spend more on video games than young people — Circana report
Adult gamers spend more money on games than buzzers. According to a Circana study, since the beginning of the year, the younger generation has dramatically decreased spending.
Former Google X Business Director Calls Job Creation by AI "100% bullshit"
Mo Gawdat, former director of business relations at Google X, doesn’t offer any comforting ideas about the role of AI in the labor market. They will be fired — and that’s it.
Don't like music? Scientists have found out why
A group of Spanish researchers from the University of Barcelona has found out why some people do not receive no positive impressions, listening to music.
Google to enroll 5000 more Ukrainians in AI courses Prompting Essentials and AI Essentials free of charge
Google launched the second wave of the program, which will provide another 5000 Ukrainians with free access to AI Essentials and Prompting Essentials courses on Coursera. Up to five partners of the first stage — Ukrainian Veterans Fund, Veteran Hub, EdEra, KSE, and NGO “Girls” — were joined by five more: GURT, Inscience, Kharkiv IT…
Alan Tudyk's name was removed from the movie I, Robot after test screenings — because the audience liked him better than Will Smith
Alan Tudyk played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action movie I, Robot, but few people knew about it at the time of the premiere. The fact is that the actor’s name was removed from the promotional materials immediately after the test screenings for a rather interesting reason.
Steam gives away a cooperative with 92% positive feedback for free
A free-to-play cooperative game that combines the atmosphere of classic 3D platformers with elements of science fiction has appeared on Steam.
Inexpensive houses started to be printed in the USA
Icon, an American company specializing in 3D printing, is building 3 residential buildings for low-income housing in Texas, demonstrating the potential of these technologies for the affordable housing market.
A new trend from China — "fake offices". Young people rent premises to simulate employment and not work anywhere
A new trend has gone viral in China: renting “fake offices.” The idea is to make unemployed young people feel busy without actually working.
Grok is acting weird again: he says he was shut down for Gaza, Elon Musk talks about a "stupid mistake"
In June, Elon Musk said that he plans to use Grok 3.5’s “advanced reasoning capabilities” to “rewrite the entire body of human knowledge, adding missing information and removing errors.”
Korean The Witcher? Woochi the Wayfarer — a mystical RPG with monsters, shamans, and rituals teaser released
Korean Nexon Games and LoreVault studio showed their new project — Woochi the Wayfarer, an adventure RPG that resembles The Witcher in its vibe.
You can listen to the conversation remotely thanks to the phone's vibration, — research
A group of american researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has discovered, that the weak vibrations, created by the phone’s speaker, can be used to remotely listening to conversations.
Festival of 4X strategies continues on Steam — Stellaris, Age of Wonders, and others with discounts up to -90% off
4X Fest Steam Sale 2025, an annual sale dedicated to 4X (explore, expand, exploit, destroy) strategy games, is underway on Steam.
The canceled Star Trek by Quentin Tarantino had a "crazy" plot about a gangster Earth of the 1930s
Somewhere in an alternate reality, Quentin Tarantino did not limit himself to ten films and made an R-rated Star Trek, which he once presented to producers.
NASA's spacecraft to search for water on the Moon lost a day after launch
NASA lost contact with the Lunar Trailblazer lunar vehicle, designed to mapping of places with water on the Earth’s satellite, and officially announced the completion of the mission.
Meet the iPhone 17 Pro! The fake came out before the original
It seems that someone got tired of reading leaks about the iPhone 17 and made the phone himself a month before Apple’s presentation.
Intel prepares first Core Ultra 3 of 200 series: 8 cores, up to 4.8 GHz for €155
Intel is preparing to introduce a new processor. This will be the first Core Ultra 3 chip for the 200 series. The first mention of the Core Ultra 3 205 model appeared in Intel’s official documentation about seven months ago, but the company later removed it without explanation. Now, this processor has reappeared in retailers’ databases,…
Steam randomly removes mods due to troll complaints
A new wave of chaotic decisions has begun in the Steam Workshop — trolls send fake complaints about mods that are eventually removed without verification.
Korean Starbucks bans bringing PCs and printers to coffee shops
The Starbucks chain in South Korea is introducing “tough” measures against people who spend hours studying or working in coffee shops. From now on, it is forbidden to bring PCs, printers, table partitions and other devices that somehow allow you to set up “mini-offices” in the cafes.
Perseids in Ukraine: how to see a star shower on the night of August 13
Every year in mid-August, Ukrainians have the opportunity to observe the amazing phenomenon of the Perseid meteor shower.
Rambo's Vietnam prequel has found a young replacement for Stallone — and it's not Ryan Gosling
The new film in Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo series — is a prequel to 1982’s First Blood, which will tell the story of the character’s origin and cover the events during the Vietnam War.
NVIDIA and AMD will give 15% of revenues from AI chip sales to China to the US, Trump confirms
US President Donald Trump has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with GPU manufacturers to export their solutions to China. At the same time, he said that NVIDIA supplies outdated chips to China that are significantly behind modern American solutions.
You can play on this NAS: Minisforum N5 Pro data storage is equipped with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370
Minisforum, known primarily for its mini-PC, compact desktop systems and dual monitorshas announced its first high-performance network attached storage, the N5 Pro. Usually, NAS systems don’t attract much attention unless they offer something truly unique, but this time we have just such a case.
What will happen to stablecoins by 2030: three forecasts
The idea behind stablecoins is simple: peg the value of a token to a fiat currency (e.g., the dollar), and the cryptocurrency market gets «digital dollars» that can be used like regular paper dollars. But with cheap and lightning-fast international transactions thanks to the blockchain. In practice, it turned out that regulators see stablecoins…
When mom didn't buy a computer: the user assembled an «AMD gaming PC» out of cardboard, and it works in some way
Unlike previous experiments, you will not be able to run Doom on this cardboard box, but on «AMD» gaming PCs there is Genshin Impact.
10 best game prequels according to IGN — from Divinity to Metal Gear Solid
IGN has ranked the ten best prequels in video games. The list includes projects of various genres — from cult action games to role-playing games that expand the stories of famous series.
A male birth control pill without side effects has passed human trials
Pharmaceutical startup YourChoice Therapeutics is conducting clinical trials of the male contraceptive YCT-529, which seems to have no side effects.
Ethereum has set a record: 121 million ETH in circulation
Ethereum, which was almost given up on after transition to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism and Pectra update, has begun to show who’s boss. Over the past week, the value of the network’s native token has increased by +17.25% and ETH is currently trading at $4,275.67. This brings it closer to the all-time high set in 2021. Back then,…
Netflix has started filming the fantasy "Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew" — first look at Digory and Polly
Netflix’s The Chronicles of Narnia has officially entered the filming stage — 6 years after the streaming service first announced a new adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ books.
In perfect packaging: NVIDIA RTX 5090 without processor and memory came from French Amazon
A gamer waited a year for MSI’s NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card before receiving it from Amazon in France. It’s hard to imagine the degree of disappointment.
A bug in the British courts' IT system deleted important evidence for years — executives knew and kept quiet
For years, the British courts concealed the IT error, resulting in the disappearance of important evidence. Surprisingly, management did not correct the situation, but remained silent.
Quantum virtual machines will reduce computing from days to hours
American researchers from Columbia University have presented a new computing technology, that allows several people to run programs on a quantum computer simultaneously.
"Too many people survive": Scream 4 star criticizes modern slashers and one "false" death in the franchise
Alison Brie, who played Rebecca in Scream 4, is not too happy with the current era of the franchise, primarily because the latest slashers “let people live too much.”
Modder creates a transparent Game Boy Color with a transparent motherboard
Self-taught fashion designer Natalie Tenerd created a unique motherboard for Game Boy Color based on a completely transparent PCB. It works just like the original, but looks stunning, especially when combined with the transparent case. In her post in X, she noted that she developed her own circuits and completely removed the grounding layer from…
Hideo Kojima dreamed of involving David Lynch in the development of Death Stranding 2
Hideo Kojima gave an interview in which he shared details about Death Stranding 2 and his admiration for the legendary director David Lynch.
The best dark matter detector: thorium-229 will help detect forces 10 trillion times weaker than gravity
Israeli and German scientists have decided to use thorium-229 to develop an ultra-precise nuclear clock, capable of detecting forces 10 trillion times weaker than gravity.
An unknown person regularly "hijacks" the plane of a 75-year-old American — repairs and returns it in better condition
For many years, Jason Hong from California was the happy owner of a 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, until strange things started happening to it — the white and red single-engine plane regularly disappears from the airport and returns after a while in better condition than before.
"OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive": Elon Musk reacts to the launch of GPT-5 in the company's products
Elon Musk continues to mercilessly criticize OpenAI. This time, he directed his apocalyptic thoughts toward Microsoft, which has implemented GPT-5 in its software products.
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