Acer turns your PC into a handheld stream box
Acer’s Nitro Blaze Link is a Linux handheld built to stream games from a local Windows PC or cloud services, targeting Portal-style couch and travel play.
2026-05-30
Top News
Genomic score test may cut chemo use
A large randomized trial reports that a genomic scoring test can safely guide many breast cancer patients away from chemotherapy toward hormone therapy alone, with near-identical outcomes.
2026-05-30
Mapping the Bundibugyo Ebola surge
A data‑driven briefing on the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, charting spread, transmission routes and the virus’s distinct effects on the human body.
2026-05-30
Health
US Adult Smoking Rate Falls To Record Low
US adult cigarette smoking has fallen to a record low share of the population, reflecting long‑running policy pressure, shifting norms, and the rise of alternative nicotine products.
2026-05-30
Extra Hantavirus Checks Stall Cruise Return
Federal officials are pressing for extended, intensive monitoring of 18 passengers from a hantavirus-exposed ship, far beyond standard protocols, triggering friction with local health agencies.
2026-05-30
U.S. Adult Smoking Rate Falls To New Low
National survey data show the smoking rate among U.S. adults has dropped to a record low, yet roughly one in eleven adults still report current cigarette use.
2026-05-30
Technology
Vertu’s AlphaFold Turns A Phone Into A Boardroom
Vertu launches AlphaFold, a luxury book-style foldable anchored by the Hermes AI agent, claiming executives can run an entire company from the device, at a price above any rival foldable.
2026-05-30
Gemini Spark Quietly Becomes Google’s Most Ambitious AI Project
Gemini Spark is now available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US, acting as a persistent personal agent that runs tasks, monitors information, and ties together Google’s consumer ecosystem.
2026-05-30
Microsoft and NVIDIA hint at an N1X PC reset
Microsoft and NVIDIA are teasing a joint PC announcement widely read as the N1X chip, signaling a tightly integrated CPU‑GPU platform aimed at AI‑heavy consumer and enterprise workloads.
2026-05-30
Games
Life Sim Paralives Enters Early Access
Life sim Paralives has launched in discounted early access after a long development, offering deep building tools and a flexible character creator as it tests its systems in public.
2026-05-26
NES and SNES mini consoles as corporate lifeline
Nintendo used the NES and SNES Classic systems as short‑term revenue and engagement tools to stabilize the business during the Wii U slump, according to former executive Reggie Fils-Aime.
2026-05-24
Previously Hidden Prototype Footage Recovered From Nintendo Vault
Newly surfaced footage of Super Mario 64 and cancelled Kirby Bowl 64 prototypes offers a brief, unauthorized window into Nintendo’s experimental design process.
2026-05-24