The Anbernic RG DS arrived last year as an ambitious budget clamshell handheld. Priced under $100. It packed two 4-inch IPS displays. A stylus. Android 14. And Rockchip RK3568 silicon. Yet its software disappointed many. Stock Android felt mismatched for the dual-screen form. Navigation proved clunky. Emulation suffered quirks. Owners turned quickly to community fixes […]

Sailesh Krishnamurthy has a direct message for his database teams. Use AI heavily. The vice president of databases at Google Cloud delivered the guidance as the company accelerates its open-source contributions to PostgreSQL. Productivity gains inside Google Cloud have proven substantial. Yet accountability stays firmly with individual engineers. No matter how much code an AI

HSBC just committed $4 billion to fuel the overseas push of mainland Chinese firms in solar, batteries, electric vehicles, data centers and artificial intelligence. The new Sustainability and Transition Credit Facility arrives at a moment when global demand for affordable renewables has spiked. Geopolitical shocks only add fuel. Announced on May 18, the facility offers

China has once again promised to open its vast market to American agriculture. The commitment, announced just days ago, calls for at least $17 billion in annual purchases of U.S. farm products through 2028. It sits atop an earlier vow to take 25 million metric tons of soybeans each year. Yet history casts a long

Light pollution now blots out the Milky Way for one-third of humanity. Yet a handful of remote corners still deliver views that stop photographers in their tracks. This year’s Milky Way Photographer of the Year collection, drawn from more than 6,500 submissions, proves the point with striking images from 12 countries. The annual project organized

OpenAI has encountered significant local resistance as it pushes forward with plans to construct a massive data center complex in rural Wisconsin, a project that could require enormous amounts of electricity and water while reshaping the character of small farming communities. According to a detailed report from Business Insider, the company’s ambitions have sparked protests,

Two of the leading artificial intelligence companies have thrust the cybersecurity world into urgent recalibration. Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing in early April, restricting its powerful Claude Mythos Preview model to a select group of partners. Days later OpenAI responded with its own tiered access program for GPT-5.5 and a dedicated cybersecurity platform called Daybreak. The

Commercial oil inventories stand on the brink. Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, delivered the warning Monday on the sidelines of a Group of Seven finance ministers meeting in Paris. “I think it is depleting very fast,” he said. It will last “several weeks, but we should be aware of the fact

Alex Svanevik argues in TechRadar that artificial intelligence multiplies what workers produce without erasing the positions they hold. The distinction matters. Companies that grasp it will gain ground. Those that don’t risk misallocating talent and capital. Output soars. One engineer now ships code that once required three. A single analyst reviews reports that filled a

China’s solar industry just delivered another surprise. In April, even after Beijing scrapped a long-standing export tax refund, solar cell shipments abroad jumped 60% from the same month a year earlier. The numbers tell a story of unrelenting global appetite for cheap renewable power. And the momentum shows little sign of fading. Customs data released