Touchscreen cosplay meets overkill performance at Computex
MSI’s Computex 2025 stand wasn’t short on spectacle, but one of its gaudier displays was the MEG Vision X AI, a prebuilt gaming PC with a 13-inch front-facing touchscreen pretending to be an “AI Human Machine Interface.”
iPhones made outside US could get slapped with a massive tax
President Donald Trump is kicking off another round of his trade war antics, and this time the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is in the firing line. On 23 May 2025, Trump warned Apple boss Tim Cook that unless iPhones are made in the US, they’ll be hit with a 25 per cent tariff.
Nvidia cooks up China-friendly B40 GPU
Blackwell-based B40 set to dodge export bans with cheaper silicon
Following yet another US clampdown on AI hardware, Nvidia is scrambling to keep its Chinese revenue stream alive with a watered-down Blackwell GPU called the B40.
Asus sticks three fans on RTX 5080 Noctua
Chunky cooling collab rolls into Computex
Asus trying to make noise by teaming up again with the airflow-obsessed Austrians at Noctua for a monster RTX 5080.
Company vanishes in a puff of smoke
Sachin Dev Duggal [pictured] called himself the “chief wizard” of Builder.ai but now his spells have failed and the once-hyped unicorn has gone poof.