Oil company moves into lithium mining
ExxonMobil sees the writing on the wall
In what might be a sign of the future, ExxonMobil is venturing into lithium production, and shelling out a pile of dosh to open a mine in southern Arkansas.
Google forced to pay Apple 36 per cent cut
That’s a nice search engine you have there, it would be terrible if something happened to it
While the search engine outfit Google is considered one of the most powerful in the world it has to bend the knee to Apple and pay it a huge cut of its advertising revenue, a court has been told.
Apple begins production of OLED panels
Ready for the new iPad Pro
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn which claims that the fruity cargo cult Apple is ready to begin production of OLED displays for its next-gen iPad Pro in February 2024.
SanDisk Extreme Pro has design and manufacturing flaws
Data recovery outfit discovers hardware issues
A data recovery outfit has found what it thinks are the problems with WD’s SanDisk Extreme Pro.
Apple fanboy got a real phone by mistake
Delivered in an Apple box
An Apple fanboy is furious after he opened his ordered an expensive iPhone 15 series box to discover a cheap phone with a decent operating system and more functionality.
Call of Duty fails to wow reviewers
Rushed
Activision Blizzard's latest Call of Duty video game was made in half the time of previous iterations, and apparently, it shows.
Chinese stockpiling Nvidia and HPC GPUs
Ready for the US export ban
Chinese AI startup 01.AI has stockpiled enough Nvidia AI and HPC GPUs to last 18 months in anticipation of a US export ban.
Windows has 40th birthday
Two years after MS-DOS
Software king of the world, Microsoft, is celebrating its 40th birthday by announcing Windows.
Apple pays $25 million to make a discrimination case go away
But says it didn’t do anything
Fruity cargo-cult will pay $25 million in back pay and civil penalties to settle a matter over the company's hiring practices under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of Justice announced.
Hollywood did give way to actors' AI fears
Details of the agreement
The longest actor's strike in Hollywood history ended with "groundbreaking" protections against the use of AI.