Boffins at the software king of the world, Microsoft, have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a piece of glass which they say can store data for more than 10,000 years. In Nature on 18 February ...

Washington is building a censorship-bypass site and claiming that it is a helpful public service which will keep poor European countries informed about the things their government have censored. The ...

India wants to be an AI power, and the Tata Group has just dragged OpenAI into its cunning plans. Tata Consultancy Services said on 19 February 2026 that it will team up with the maker of ChatGPT to ...

GPU behemoth Nvidia is close to finalising a $30bn investment in OpenAI that replaces the long-term $100bn commitment the pair agreed to last year, as part of a gigantic new funding round. The world’s ...

Samsung Electronics’ DS division has decided it wants an operating profit margin of more than 50 per cent. Industry chatter on 18 February 2026 says the semiconductor unit is reorganising its product ...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is warming up for GTC 2026 with a hype line designed to make the faithful swoon and everyone else roll their eyes. Huang said: “We’ve prepared several new chips the world has ...

Reviewers are noting how similar the new Pixel 10a is to the Pixel 9a, even if it does not have a camera bump spoiling the look. That is the big change, because there is no other discernible ...

AMD has set a new world record for GPU overclocking with its budget Radeon RX 9060 XT. Until now, there was only one official 4.0GHz-plus discrete GPU overclocking record on the books, Splave’s ...

AWS boss says the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are overdoing their AI risk fears. Technology stocks have had a rough 2026 as investors rethink what fast-improving AI tools mean for the companies ...

Europe’s AI productivity boost has turned up at last, and it is not evenly shared, according to a CEPR report. Survey evidence covering more than 12,000 European firms suggests that adopting AI lifts ...

For decades, software has been sold on a “per seat” basis, where each employee gets unlimited use, like the classic Microsoft 365 licence, but it is starting to look like that is going to change ...

Troubled Chipzilla is pushing the AI PC story hard, and it reckons Panther Lake will shove it into half of upcoming PCs. Panther Lake’s headline trick is a big AI uplift, thanks to fifth-generation ...