Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.5, an open-weight, 397-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that only wakes up 17 billion neurons per prompt. The payoff? You get 60% lower inference ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Valve dipped its toe into the hardware business when it released the Steam Deck ...

What if the future of gaming didn’t revolve around Windows? That’s the bold possibility emerging as Linux, powered by Valve’s SteamOS, begins to reshape the gaming landscape. Joshua Keith outlines how ...

Cross Bot will analyze your games in Crossplay, a new two-player word game from The Times. By Asmaa Elkeurti Tom Giratikanon and Eve Washington New York Times Games has launched Crossplay, a new ...

Gamers who buy Valve's upcoming Steam Machine will find it has a much larger library of Verified games on day one than the Steam Deck did, since Valve will place "fewer constraints" on game developers ...

In this video, we build a Python simulation to compute the electric field produced by a uniformly charged ring. Using numerical integration, we visualize the field behavior and compare it with key ...

A computer whizz has built the "world's best" Wordle bot - but the starting word is rude. Alex Walker, 27, created a bot he has named "Wordle bot" from his bedroom, which can complete the popular word ...

In 2019, as a newly minted co-teaching pair, we stumbled upon game-based learning (GBL). The value of GBL was immediately obvious to us. We have since acquired expertise in GBL, serious games, and ...

Unless you want to lose a whole lot of money, don’t rush to hire an AI bot to run your vending machine. That’s the lesson from a recent experiment in AI autonomy, piloted by Joanna Stern, tech ...

It has been over two decades since Valve debuted "Half-Life 2," and there have been various rumors that its successor, "Half-Life 3," is right around the corner, especially as the new Steam Machine ...

While a gaming desktop is a great choice if you game at home, a dedicated gaming laptop can help you enjoy your gameplay with high refresh rates and vivid detail when you’re on the go. As a gaming ...