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Asteroids and comets are some of the most dangerous things in the universe when it comes to the safety of Earth as a planet, which is why NASA has set up programs such as CNEOS or the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

CNEOS is designed to be a ledger of all of the discovered near-Earth objects, providing a database on all of their orbits, locations, speeds, rotational speeds, and any other relevant information about the object. Programs such as this and others are set up because of the real danger these objects pose, and the most unsettling aspect of these objects is we don't know where they all are.

It was only in October last year NASA took to its website to share the infographic below about how many asteroids it estimates it has yet to discover. Now, a new study published on a pre-print server has detailed what is called "dark comets," which are icy objects just like normal comets, but instead, they do not exhibit any outgassing, which causes the iconic tail depicted in traditional comets.

Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU configurations have been leaked, where we can expect up to 5 Tiles on Panther Lake CPUs in the future.

In a new post on X by leaker "Jaykihn" the next-gen Panther Lake-H and Panther Lake-U processors have been detailed, with Intel confirming it has hit the "Power On" achievement on Panther Lake CPUs, entering production on Intel's in-house 18A process node in the first half of 2025, with availability sometime in 2H 2025.

The leak includes a blueprint of the Intel Panther Lake-H processor and details for three configurations. Panther Lake CPUs will be hitting laptops in thin and light designs, right up to high-end laptops of the future.

Intel is still developing its next-gen Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake-S" desktop CPUs, which will launch on the new LGA1851 socket. However, the LGA1700 will live on, and new Bartlett Lake-S desktop CPUs, reportedly launching in 2025, will be available in hybrid and P-Core-only offerings.

In a new post on X by leaker "Jaykihn" we're finding out that Intel's next-gen Bartlett Lake-S desktop CPUs in P-Core variants only, launching in Q3 2025, so around a year from now. Bartlett Lake-S will appear on LGA1700, meaning LGA1700 motherboard owners could skip Arrow Lake-S and its new LGA1851 socket and upgrade to a new CPU with Bartlett Lake-S in 2025.

We are to expect only P-cores with no E-cores and no Hyper-Threading, as well as hybrid Bartlett Lake-S processor offerings. Intel's upcoming P-core-only Bartlett Lake-S processors will use the new BTL 12+0 die with up to 12 P-cores, which is more P-cores than the current 14th-gen Core CPUs with up to 8 P-cores on their max SKU: the Core i9-14900K.

We shouldn't really be shocked by the outcomes of surveys at this point, but we were rather taken aback by the apparent level of misconception out there regarding AIs like ChatGPT - with many folks seemingly believing that these chatbots have "some degree of consciousness."

According to a study from the University of Waterloo (flagged by TechSpot), two-thirds of respondents in a survey (of 300) in the US felt this was the case, and further they agreed that such AI tools can have "subjective experiences such as feelings and memories."

Of course, these are Large Language Models (LLMs) and they most certainly don't experience feelings - not by any definition or philosophy we're aware of - but they are cleverly constructed AIs that can appear this way, sure. Plus the datasets they're trained on are inevitably human content - the opinions and thoughts that they hoover up by the ton, from every corner of the web - so that's reflected in the replies to queries, clearly.

In early April, YouTube sent a clear message to AI model developers that downloading data from the platform and using it to train AI models is a clear violation of YouTube's terms of service.

This sentiment was reinforced in the same week as YouTube's public comment about its content being used to train AI model, but it came from a Google spokesperson who told the New York Times any, "unauthorized scraping or downloading of YouTube content" is prohibited. However, a new report from Proof News has found YouTube has been scraped for its data, and some of the biggest tech companies advancing AI have used it to train models.

According to a Proof News investigation, subtitles from 172,535 YouTube videos were siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, and some of these channels included prominent creators on the platform such as MKBHD (19 million subscribers), MrBeast (289 million), Jacksepticeye (31 million), PewDiePie (111 million), Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, and more. Notably, the video transcriptions are subtitles files.

Following the assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled two attempts have been made on his life in the past eight months.

Musk took to his personal X account, formerly Twitter, to reply to a user requesting Musk increase his private security for his own protection, citing the event with President Trump as an example of what can happen to people in powerful public positions who have people that strongly disagree with them. Musk said there are "dangerous times ahead" and then revealed two people on separate occasions have "already tried to kill me in the past 8 months".

The Tesla CEO said these individuals were "arrested with guns about 20 mins drive from Tesla HQ in Texas". In another response, Musk joked that it was maybe time for him to "build that flying metal suit of armor," which refers to the iconic Iron Man suit of armor worn by Marvel's Tony Stark. Notably, this isn't the first time Musk has mentioned people trying to kill him, as he told Canadian professor Gad Saad during a live audio chat on X Spaces that in the past, "mentally ill" people have made attempts on his life.

Microsoft has struck a $1.5 billion deal with Group 42 (G42), an artificial intelligence research and development firm operating in the United Arab Emirates, and is chaired by national security advisor His Highness Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Ai Nahyan.

The deal has sparked security concerns, with two House committee chairs now sending a public letter to the White House prompting it to investigate the deal, following Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's visit to Beijing to strengthen AI-related ties, and G42 being investigated less than a year ago for its association with China. The $1.5 billion deal has caused fear among US intelligence officials as it could mean advanced US AI technologies could eventually reach China.

Notably, UAE's AI minister admitted the US concerns about the deal are valid, as it would be for "any country that has adversaries". Despite these seemingly widespread concerns, Microsoft and G42 are making an effort to implement as much transparency about the deal as they can, with Microsoft President Brad Smith saying G42 won't be gaining any AI access to proprietary US technologies such as processors, AI model design tools, and more. Moreover, the Microsoft president said the UAE's access would be in a "vault within a vault".

Amazon Prime Day is occurring between July 16 and July 17, and throughout that time, numerous products across the online retailer will be discounted. Now may be your chance to snag some great PC equipment at a reasonable price.

It should be noted that Amazon isn't the only online retailer that significantly discounts its products between the aforementioned period, so it's worth shopping around to locate the best deal for the product you are looking for. As for this article, we will be entirely concentrating on Amazon products, and below are some of the best deals I have found when it comes to PCs.

First we have a great deal on a 1080p (FHD) monitor that's built for speed. The ASUS ROG Strix XG259QN is a 380HZ FHD gaming monitor that's 45% off. Next is what you need to store all of your games, an SSD. In this case, it's the 2Tb Samsung 990 PRO with a heatsink, which is currently 45% off. Next is the Razer Blade 15 gaming laptop that comes with an RTX 4070 laptop GPU. That gaming laptop is currently 43% off.

CD Projekt Red is working on a selection of new titles for gamers, but what does the renowned developer consider as its "most advanced" project.

For those that didn't know, CD Projekt is currently working on four new titles, all of which are named after stars. Firstly, there is Canis Majoris, a remake of The Witcher that is currently being developed at Polish studio Fool's Theory. Next is Orion, which is the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 that is being helmed by developers at the Boston studio. Next is Sirius, a Witcher spin-off game that is being developed at Molasses Flood in Boston.

Lastly, Polaris is a completely new Witcher game that is being helmed by the main CD Projekt studio in Warsaw, Poland. In a recent interview with Flow Games, associate game director Pawel Sasko said most of the titles are currently in their "early stages" and the new Witcher saga, which is slated to enter production sometime this year, is "the most advanced of all of those".

Apple has rolled out the latest version of iOS to the public and it comes with a bunch of new changes that are worth knowing about.

The public beta for iOS 18 has been unveiled, and it covers Apple's range of products with different operating system versions. For example, watchOS18, macOS Sequia, tvOS 18, and of course iPhone's iOS 18, are all available to download now. Users can do this by heading to Settings > Update and then opting into the public beta for the upgraded operating system.

iOS 18 is the operating system version slated to implemented Apple's version of artificial intelligence called Apple Intelligence, but unfortunately many of those main features have been left out of this public beta. Additionally, this article will be covering the top non-AI features currently available in the iOS 18 beta, which should help you decide if you want to upgrade to it or not.

Western Digital has just very quietly unleashed a monster 8TB version of its super-fast WD_BLACK SN850X SSD family, offering up to 7.3GB/sec reads and the huge 8TB capacity starting from $849.

The new WD_BLACK SN850X 8TB SSD will fit into any laptop or PC with an M.2 2280 NVMe slot, or if you need a monster 8TB Gen4 SSD for your PlayStation 5, Western Digital has your back. Inside, the new WD_BLACK SN850X 8TB SSD uses TLC 3D NAND for the huge storage capacity and up to 7.2GB/sec (7200MB/sec) reads and up to 6.6GB/sec (6600MB/sec) writes.

Western Digital allows buying the new WD_BLACK SN850X 8TB SSD (and the 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB SSDs) with or without a heatsink. The new 8TB model is $849 without the heatsink or $899 with the heatsink. The new 8TB SSD is slightly slower than the 4TB and 2TB SN850X SSDs, which both other up to 7.3GB/sec writes (just 100MB/sec more) than the 7.2GB/sec from the 8TB SN850X SSD.

AMD has just confirmed its next-generation Zen 6 core architecture, which will succeed the about-to-be-released Zen 5 architecture inside Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs and new Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" desktop CPUs.

The next-gen Zen 6 CPU architecture will be -- like Zen 5 -- split into two cores: Zen 6 and Zen 6c, which will both usher in new levels of performance and power efficiency across the entire range of PC products: desktops, laptops, handhelds, servers, and more.

Zen 6 is codenamed "Morpheus," which will succeed Zen 5, which is being made on 4nm and 3nm process nodes. We should expect AMD's next-generation Zen 6 products to use the latest process nodes and advanced packaging technologies. We've heard rumors that Zen 6 and Zen 6c will be inside the 6th Gen EPYC "Venice" CPUs on the new SP7 platform featuring up to 16-channel memory.

HP has just unveiled its new OmniBook Ultra, which it's calling the "world's highest-performing AI PC" which is powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs offering up to 55 TOPS of AI performance.

The company unveiled its new OmniBook Ultra laptop during its "Imagine AI" event held in New York City last week, integrating AI across most of its consumer products that the company says will enable creativity for everyone, the usual marketing speak, really.

We don't know which Strix Point APU is inside of HP's new OmniBook Ultra, but the company did say that it will be powered by the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series APU with integrated Radeon 800M graphics, and the powerful XDNA2-based NPU for "unparalleled performance" and up to 21 hours of battery life. The OmniBook Ultra was co-engineered with AMD to enable up to 55 TOPS of NPU performance.

The new ASUS ROG Azoth Extreme premium wireless gaming keyboard is here; however, it's hard not to look past the price - $499 USD. So then, what does a 75% gaming keyboard that costs as much as a GeForce RTX 4070 include? Quite a lot of premium features: a full-color OLED touchscreen, a carbon fiber positioning plate, and an adjustable gasket mount.

The latter allows gamers to toggle between two different type-feels, a first for a gaming keyboard. We first saw the ASUS ROG Azoth Extreme at Computex 2024, where ASUS explained that no expense was spared; every square inch of this thing has been designed to deliver the company's most premium keyboard experience to date. After a brief hands-on, we awarded it a Best of Computex 2024 award.

You'll have to wait a bit for our full review (it's due to arrive any minute), so let's go through what makes this custom 75% gaming keyboard a true enthusiast-level piece of hardware.

Amazon has launched its Prime Day deals, which means prices across the vast online retailer have slashed considerably.

If you need a new PC upgrade to get those extra frames in your favorite game, are looking to add a small accessory to your already awesome setup, or just want an entirely new gaming rig, Corsair has your back as it has slashed prices on Amazon across its various products. Below is a list of the best deals you will find on during Prime Day, which will run from July 16 to July 17, 2024.

First, we have the 5000D AIRFLOW TG Black, a tempered glass mid-tower case that, if you purchase during Prime Day, will save you $50, as it's discounted by 29%. As for cooling, there are various products discounted by 22%, but what stood out is the H150i ELIT LCD XT WHT, which will be priced at $232.75. For entire pre-built gaming PCs there is the Corsair Vengeance i7500 Gaming PC, originally priced at $2,499, but is going for $1,999, saving you $500 or 20%.

AMD has cooked up its new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series CPUs with some brand new overclocking features, one of which is called Curve Shaper.

In a new post on X, leaker "1usmus" shared some details on AMD's new Curve Shaper, an add-on for AMD's current Curve Optimizer for its new fleet of Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series CPUs. AMD's new Ryzen 9000 series overclocking feature is Curve Shaper, a new feature extensively used for tuning your new Ryzen 9000 series CPU.

Currently, Ryzen 7000 series CPU owners can select a curve optimizer to be stable at low and high operating temperatures throughout the entire load range. But the new Curve Shapder feature on AMD's new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series CPUs lets users tweak the CO across the entire temperature range. 1usmus shared a table of the Curve Shaper, which you can see below:

Emulation on iOS for Apple iPhone, iPad, and the Vision Pro headset continues to mature, with the first free PC emulator, 'UTM SE,' now available on the App Store. Interestingly, Apple rejected the app in June, even though it had changed its policy on consoles and other retro gaming emulators. According to Apple, a PC is not a console; however, with a few changes, the app has been approved for distribution.

UTM SE is a PC emulator for macOS and iOS designed to run various recent and retro PC operating systems, from Windows XP to Windows 11 to Linux and retro versions of macOS. It emulates "x86, PPC, and RISC-V architectures" with graphics-based and text-only operating system support.

That said, the emulator's PC gaming chops have one fundamental limitation. "UTM does not currently support GPU emulation/virtualization on Windows," which means no 3D acceleration via OpenGL or DirectX - so you're limited to software rendering. Still, this covers a long list of classics.

AMD's new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9 9950X processor has already been LN2 cooled and overclocked to 6.6GHz and scored 55K points in Cinebench R23. Check it out:

The AMD XOC (Extreme Overclocking) team recently held a live demo with AMD's new Ryzen 9 9950X processor at AMD's recent Zen 5 Tech Day for the press, with GamersNexus capturing a shot of the video during the event. The XOC team used an ASUS ROG X670E Crosshair Gene motherboard, a motherboard created specifically for overclockers in mind, with just two DDR5 DIMM slots.

The team chose the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor, with LN2 cooling and advanced testing and overclocking. While the AMD Ryzen Master suite functioned during the video, a custom app made by ASUS was used instead for this overclock on the Ryzen 9 9950X.

Two new gaming monitors aimed at eSports gamers have been unveiled by AOC, and they are designed to provide users with as many frames as possible at the cost of visual fidelity.

The gaming monitor market has seen an influx in the number of OLED offerings, and while gaming monitors that take advantage of this new pixel technology are widely considered the best for gaming, not everyone can afford to fork out nearly $1,000 to pick one up. That is why we are still seeing new products using old pixel technologies such as IPS, VA or even TN.

Engineers have learned to squeeze out as much performance as they possibly can out of these older pixel technologies, which means they can be tailored to specific gaming experiences. AGON by AOC is no stranger to this and now it has unveiled two new gaming monitor offerings that are designed with one thing in mind - refresh rates. The AGON PRO AG246FK and the AG256FS are designed with eSports gaming in mind.

Samsung will use its in-house 4nm foundry process to mass produce its next-generation HBM4 memory to directly take on South Korean competitor SK hynix and TSMC in the race for AI memory supremacy.

In a new report from the Korea Economic Daily, we're hearing that Samsung will use its 4nm foundry process for the logic die of HBM4 memory chips (sixth-generation HBM) according to industry sources of KED. The logic die itself sits at the base of the stacks of dies and is one of the core components of an HBM chip used on AI chips.

SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron all make HBM, with logic dies used on the latest HBM3E memory, but the new HBM4 memory of the future requires a foundry process that's ready with customized functions required by AI chip makers like NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, and more.