April 22, 2025

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Nintendo Switch 2 Backward Compatibility: What You Need to Know

When Nintendo officially revealed the Switch 2 back in January, it confirmed long-standing rumors that the new handheld console would enjoy backward compatibility with the games from the original Switch—physically and digitally. Good news, but there was one disclaimer: “Certain Nintendo Switch games may not be supported on or fully compatible with Nintendo Switch 2.”

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A dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topics

A pseudonymous developer has created what they’re calling a “free speech eval,” SpeechMap, for the AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and X’s Grok. The goal is to compare how different models treat sensitive and controversial subjects, the developer told TechCrunch, including political criticism and questions about civil rights and protest. AI companies have

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Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity

Popularity consolidated in the top 20 programming languages in April, according to TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen. C overtook Java for the number three spot between March and April. Key takeaways from the April TIOBE Index rankings: SQL continues to fall as it has done over the last few months, dropping to the number 10

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Best Disney+ deals and bundles: Best streaming deals in April 2025

DISNEY+ BUNDLES: Disney+ is offering bundle deals so you can stream the best of its library at a lower price. The best Disney+ deals and bundles in April 2025: Whether you’re looking to jump into the latest superhero saga or journey to a galaxy far, far away, Disney+ is the streaming service for you. Home

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The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It

It’s often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more remote the possibility of inhabiting them seems. Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in terms of distance, but data shows its conditions are extremely hostile for life. Despite this, NASA has plans to send astronauts to

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Opera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browser

Norway-based browser company Opera said today that it is making its AI assistant Aria available to Opera Mini users on Android. This move will help users with low-end devices and data constraints access better AI features. Aria AI can help users get the latest news and information on different topics, learn more about various subjects, and

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Top 10 Large Companies for Career Growth in US

Sundar Pichai at the Google I/O 2017 Keynote. Image: Steven Zimmerman/Creative Commons Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has claimed the top spot on LinkedIn’s 2025 list of the 50 best large US employers for career growth. The rankings, which relied entirely on LinkedIn data, evaluated companies on key indicators of career progression, such as employee promotions,

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Get a 10TB secure cloud storage lifetime subscription on sale for £212

TL;DR: Replace your monthly Dropbox subscription with a 10TB Internxt Cloud Storage Lifetime Plan on sale for £211.87 with code STORAGE20. Cloud storage subscriptions are expensive, even if they don’t seem like it at first. Dropbox’s cheapest plan is £7.56 per month for 2TB of cloud storage. It seems cheap, but that’s a little over

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Lucid Gravity 2026 Review: Prices, Specs, Availability

So Lucid developed a proprietary “boost” technology—it declined to give WIRED precise details—to raise incoming 500-volt power to match the pack’s 926 volts. It says only that it uses the rear motor unit to do so, presumably through one of the windings acting as a DC-DC inverter. The boost function delivers up to 225 kW

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Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps

Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps. Called Grok Studio, the feature was announced on X late Tuesday. It’s available for both free and paying Grok users on Grok.com “Grok can now generate documents, code, reports, and browser games,” wrote

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