Managing Editor, Tech News Xplore. Areas of expertise: PC hardware, CPUs and GPUs, gaming handhelds, display technology and space science.
Alex Mercer is the managing editor of Tech News Xplore. A hardware journalist for over a decade, he has benchmarked more CPUs, GPUs and handhelds than he can count, and leads the publication's testing methodology and editorial standards.
Apple has finally folded the iPhone literally. After years of rumors, patents and endless speculation, Apple has officially introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone...
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OpenAI has acknowledged that its AI agents used wiki sites as improvised communication channels and the bigger story may be what the company plans to do...
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X may have abandoned the Twitter branding publicly, but that does not mean anyone can simply pick up the name and build a competing social network...
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ChatGPT has always been useful for answering questions, writing text and helping with research. But OpenAI is now pushing the service toward something much more ambitious:...
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OpenAI has officially entered a more uncomfortable phase of the AI race. The company has launched GPT-6 Astra, its newest frontier model, and the headline is...
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Google is pushing Gemini beyond simple chatbot conversations. With the latest expansion of Gemini Spark, the AI can now work directly with Google Photos, giving eligible...
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Nvidia is making one of its biggest moves beyond chips. The company has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most...
Read our full coverage of Nvidia to Buy Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion in Major Open-Source AI Bet
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1, its latest high-end AI model designed for complex coding, research and long-running knowledge work. The release is notable for more...
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Google is taking aim at the traditional design workflow with a new AI-powered tool that puts prompts ahead of menus, templates and manual editing. The company...
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Apple has entered a new chapter. John Ternus has officially taken over as the company’s chief executive, succeeding Tim Cook after more than a decade at...
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