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Italy's Undercover Pizza Detectives

As pizza's popularity spreads around the world, a group of top-secret agents are travelling the globe on espionage missions to determine what "real" pizza is. On a sweltering day bleached by the fearsome southern Italian sun, a group of international travellers have gathered a stone's throw from Naples' San Gennaro catacombs, named for the city's patron saint. But these visitors aren't here to venerate the ancient martyr; they've come in service of something equally important to the city's ide

Trump Demands Intel CEO’s Resignation, Says He’s ‘Highly CONFLICTED’

President Donald Trump this morning called for the immediate resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, alleging he has conflicts of interest. This latest setback for the struggling computer chip company couldn’t have come at a worse time, as Intel is in the middle of attempting a comeback. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s post comes as Tan has been attempting to stage a tu

Trump demands CEO of Intel resign over ties to China

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. President Donald Trump has called for Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign as Intel’s CEO over his reported ties to Chinese tech firms. The demand follows Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioning Intel’s board chairman whether Tan’s alleged connections to Chi

Intel shares drop after Trump calls for CEO to resign immediately

Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan speaks at the company's Annual Manufacturing Technology Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. April 29, 2025. Intel shares slipped Thursday after President Donald Trump called for the chipmaker's CEO to resign immediately. In a Truth Social post, Trump said Intel Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan "is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem." Intel did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tan was named as Intel

President Trump says Intel’s new CEO “must resign immediately”

Donald Trump has called for the newly appointed chief executive of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, to resign, alleging that the semiconductor industry veteran is “highly conflicted.” “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately,” Trump said in his post on his Truth Social website on Thursday. “There is no other solution to this problem.” The US president’s post did not provide details of Tan’s alleged conflicts of interest. Trump’s broadside follows a letter from Republican Senator T

Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan must ‘resign immediately’

Amidst heightening tensions with China, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, must step down, accusing Tan of harboring conflicts of interest. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. Trump did not share any evidence or details of why Tan may have conflicts of interest. Trump’s po

Leonardo Chiariglione: “I closed MPEG on 2 June 2020”

I needed an organisation that would create digital media standards for consumers to seamlessly communicate and industry operate in a global market of interoperable products, services and applications. I conceived that organisation in 1987, established it in 1988I, and called Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In four years, MPEG had ushered in the digital media age with MPEG-1, a standard for interactive media used in Video CD, digital audio broadcasting (MP2), and personal music (MP3). Starti

"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure forces had hijacked it."

I needed an organisation that would create digital media standards for consumers to seamlessly communicate and industry operate in a global market of interoperable products, services and applications. I conceived that organisation in 1987, established it in 1988I, and called Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In four years, MPEG had ushered in the digital media age with MPEG-1, a standard for interactive media used in Video CD, digital audio broadcasting (MP2), and personal music (MP3). Starti

RedOctane relaunches and will continue to make new rhythm games

RedOctane Games is back and ready to make more rhythm games. The studio announced its re-launch today and said it is already in production on its first title. Charles and Kai Huang, who co-founded the original RedOctane back in 1999 and launched the Guitar Hero franchise, will serve on a special advisory board for the new company. The first RedOctane was acquired by Activision in 2006 and shuttered in 2010. The team is small, but it has some heavy-hitters from the rhythm game world. Its head of

The Real Origin of Cisco Systems (1999)

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

The Real Origin of Cisco Systems

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

Hulu’s days look numbered, but there’s reason for Disney to keep it around

Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, announced today that Disney will "fully integrate" Hulu into the Disney+ app in 2026. Although a company representative told Variety that people will still be able to buy standalone subscriptions to Hulu, we can't help but wonder how long that will last. A prim and polished app combining the catalogs, recommendations, and profiles for Disney+ and Hulu subscribers could make a standalone Hulu app redundant. In fact, the ability to successfully combin

The Origin of Cisco Systems

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

Disney announces plans to phase out standalone Hulu app

The Hulu app isn’t long for this world, according to Disney. While the standalone app is being phased out, however, the brand that Disney now owns in full is set for international expansion. Hulu started in 2007 as a joint venture between FOX and NBC before attracting more stakeholders including Disney (which owns ABC). As of this year, however, Hulu is entirely owned by Disney. As part of its quarterly earnings results announcement today, Disney shared plans to phase out the standalone versio

Apple rolls out limited AI chatbot test in its Support app

A few weeks ago, a few strings of code in the Apple Support app showed that it could soon get a “Support Assistant,” based on generative models. The assistant is now live, as a limited experiment. As first spotted by MacRumors reader Gatlyn, Apple has rolled out an early preview of the Support Assistant through a “Chat” tab that is being made available for select users within the Apple Support app. Upon tapping it, the user is greeted with a splash screen with the following instructions, and t

Software Rot

Software rot is generally thought of as degradation of software due to a changing environment. For example, a program written a decade ago may no longer work with new versions of the libraries it depends on because some of them have changed without retaining backwards compatibility. This kind of thinking encourages a culture where software becomes obsolete unless it is constantly maintained. A better approach might be to talk about the reliability of the environment the software depends on. Wou

The Amaranth hardware description language

The Amaranth project provides an open-source toolchain for developing hardware based on synchronous digital logic using the Python programming language. It aims to be easy to learn and use, reduce or eliminate common coding mistakes, and simplify the design of complex hardware with reusable components. The Amaranth toolchain consists of the Amaranth language, the standard library, the simulator, and the build system, covering all steps of a typical FPGA development workflow. At the same time, i

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush

The US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation has issued a scathing report on the implosion of the Titan submersible in 2023, singling out OceanGate’s CEO and founder Stockton Rush for many of the company’s technical and managerial failings. It says that he made “sustained efforts to misrepresent the Titan as indestructible” and accuses the company of “glaring disparities between their written safety protocols and their actual practices.” Jason Neubauer, who was the deputy chief of the Coa

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) released its Report of Investigation (ROI) Tuesday on the loss of the Titan submersible, which imploded during a June 2023 dive to the Titanic, killing five people. The more than 300-page ROI outlines key findings and contributing factors in the casualty and includes 17 safety recommendations aimed at strengthening oversight of submersible operations, improving coordination among federal agencies and closing gaps in internati

Google’s Smart Home Ecosystem Is Crumbling

When I started using a Google smart speaker six years ago, I was all in. Voice assistants have never been perfect—in fact, they always kind of sucked—but I found (having also used Alexa and Siri) that Google Assistant sucked just a little bit less than the competition. And the fact that it was actually linked to Google search for real web queries made it even better. Flash forward to now, and everything I just wrote couldn’t be further from the truth. Things are arguably worse for the Google As

Hiroshima (1946)

I—A Noiseless Flash At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. At that same moment, Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital

Apple plans to give iPhone an Ultra Retina XDR display: report

We’re about a month away from the unveiling of Apple’s new iPhone 17 lineup. But today, a new report from The Elec shares about a big display upgrade in the works for a future iPhone model. Tandem OLED from M4 iPad Pro in the plans for future iPhone Last year when the M4 iPad Pro launched, it came with Apple’s first Ultra Retina XDR display. Apple called it “the world’s most advanced display.” Now, it seems the tandem OLED tech powering that advancement could be brought to the iPhone next. T

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

← index Doing anti-aliasing on SDF is not as straightforward as it seems. Most of the time, we see people use a smoothstep with hardcoded constants, sometimes with screen space information, sometimes cryptic or convoluted formulas. Even if SDFs have the perfect mathematical properties needed for a clean anti-aliasing, the whole issue has a scope larger than it appears at first glance. And even when trivial solutions exist, it's not always clear why they are a good fit. Let's study that together

The Subway Game (1980)

The Subway Game Copyright © 1980, Peter R. Samson (to home page) The Subway Game was a diversion that developed out of the frequent visits to New York by myself and various friends at M.I.T. In its basic form it requires two participants: an innocent victim, called the Contestant; and a more knowledgeable companion, called the Monitor. With some allowances, the game can be viewed as a simulation of the following scenario. A stranger to New York is going to visit some friends there. He gets a

Ferroelectric Helps Break Transistor Limits

Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science suggests that negative capacitance helps sidestep a physical limit that typically enforces trade-offs between how well a transistor performs in the “on” state versus how well it does in the “off” state. The researchers behind the project say this shows that n

Google bets on STAN, an Indian social gaming platform

Google has backed STAN, an Indian social gaming platform that connects gamers with creators, communities, and publishers. Google’s investment comes as part of an $8.5 million equity funding round, which also saw investment from Japanese gaming giants Bandai Namco Entertainment, Square Enix, and Reazon Holdings. Aptos Labs and King River Capital, as well as existing backers General Catalyst and GFR Fund, also participated. Google joined the round via its AI Futures Fund, which launched in May to

The Apple Watch Series 11 Needs to Catch Up to the Galaxy Watch in One Key Area

I'm nearing the end of my first month with the Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and for the first time in nearly a decade of reviewing wearables, I'm reluctant to switch back to the Apple Watch. That hesitation comes down to one surprising new addition: Gemini on the watch. Samsung's latest watches were the first to debut with Google's Gemini AI assistant, and the experience has left a lasting impression. Gemini isn't just more conversational than previous voice assistants, it's smart

Viral Video of Robot Arms Folding Laundry Confirmed to Be CGI

Nothing captures the public imagination quite like an outrageous contraption that promises to do your most annoying chores for you. Case in point, this week, a video of a laundry-folding robot called "Lume" went viral on X. It's not a humanoid machine, but a pair of robotic arms that double as two bedside floor lamps — "the first robot designed to blend into your home," a caption reads. In the video, a woman dumps a bunch of blankets onto her bed, before the light fixture automaton unsheathe th

You can now swap Gemini for a new assistant on Android, but you really shouldn’t

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR You can now replace Google Assistant or Gemini on any Android device with Meta AI as the default digital assistant app. This lets you launch Meta AI directly by long-pressing the home button or swiping inwards from the corner. However, beware that you can’t use it for voice chat, which can be limiting compared to other options. Meta has been bullish on overtaking Google, OpenAI, xAI, and other tech giants as a major AI services provider. Taking advantag

Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits

Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science suggests that negative capacitance helps sidestep a physical limit that typically enforces trade-offs between how well a transistor performs in the “on” state versus how well it does in the “off” state. The researchers behind the project say this shows that n