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RAM crisis: How one developer saves €140 and why this is not a model for the mass market

14 janvier 2026 à 06:00
RAM is currently what graphics cards were during the mining boom: expensive, scarce, and subject to market dynamics that have little to do with actual production costs. DDR5 is particularly affected by this. While 8 GB still cost €50 to €60 in the summer of 2025, comparable modules will cost €150 to €200 in early […]

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How humanoid robots learn to fold laundry and why China relies on humans as training data

14 janvier 2026 à 06:00
Humanoid robots are considered the next stage in the evolution of automation. No longer confined to factory floors, they are now universal workers for household tasks, care, logistics, and industry. Trade fairs such as CES have been conjuring up this vision of the future for years. The reality is more sobering. Folding laundry works, but […]

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Why gamers talk about “cheat hardware” and online gaming is at a tipping point

14 janvier 2026 à 06:00
What used to be considered brazen third-party software now comes factory-installed. MSI unveiled its fifth generation of OLED gaming monitors at CES 2026, sparking a debate that goes far beyond panel technology and response times. For the first time, a major manufacturer is shifting game-relevant AI functions directly into the hardware. For many gamers, this […]

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Apple to rely on Google Gemini for basic AI models in the future

14 janvier 2026 à 06:00
Apple has confirmed that the technical basis of its future AI base models will be built on Google technologies. The company told CNBC that this is a multi-year partnership that includes both Google’s Gemini language models and cloud infrastructure. The goal of the collaboration is to enable new features within Apple Intelligence. No further contractual […]

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Significant increase in memory prices makes smartphones more expensive, DRAM and NAND account for a large share of costs

14 janvier 2026 à 06:00
Prices for mobile storage components have risen significantly within a short period of time and are increasingly affecting the manufacturing costs of smartphones. According to market research companies Omdia and TrendForce, prices for mobile DRAM have risen by more than 70 percent since the beginning of last year, while the cost of NAND flash memory […]

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A thing of the past? 25 years of Wikipedia and the new competition from AI

14 janvier 2026 à 06:00
Wikipedia went online for the first time on January 15, 2001. The original aim of founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger was to supplement the online encyclopedia Nupedia, which was planned by specialist authors, with an open collaborative project. While Nupedia made little progress and was discontinued in 2003, Wikipedia quickly developed into one of […]

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