‘Star Fox’ Switch 2 Review: A Very Faithful And Suitably Shiny Remake

One of the defining games of the SNES was the original ‘Star Fox’, and its sequel, ‘Star Fox 64’, cemented its legacy even further. So how does this remake stack up?

South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster
South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster

A presidential adviser says AI demand could pull forward the next phase of fab construction by more than a decade, and that the country needs somewhere to put it. South Korea’s government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about the next…

Blackstone plans $30B for Japan AI data centres, and is unbothered by bubble talk
Blackstone plans $30B for Japan AI data centres, and is unbothered by bubble talk

Blackstone plans to invest roughly $30 billion in artificial-intelligence data centres in Japan over the next three to five years, the firm’s president and chief operating officer, Jonathan Gray, told Nikkei in an interview published on Monday. The wor…

South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk
South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk

The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performance b…

Tencent weighs exit from Marvelous and other Japanese game bets
Tencent weighs exit from Marvelous and other Japanese game bets

Tencent Holdings is in talks to walk away from several of the minority stakes it holds in Japanese game studios, among them the Tokyo-listed developer Marvelous Inc., as the company reassesses a global games portfolio it spent years assembling. The dis…

Tin Stars As The AI Data Center Building Boom Heats Up

The price of tin is being driven up by strong demand for the old metal in modern electronics, including data centers being developed for artificial intelligence (AI)

Huawei’s FreeBuds Pro 5 Are The Best AirPods Pro Alternative

The FreeBuds Pro 5 offer excellent battery life and audio quality, though the active noise cancelation is just good but not great.

Indonesia turns to AI to deliver Prabowo’s biggest promises
Indonesia turns to AI to deliver Prabowo’s biggest promises

The most expensive promise Prabowo Subianto made on his way to Indonesia’s presidency was lunch. His free-meals programme, budgeted at roughly $15bn to feed some 83 million children and pregnant women across an archipelago of thousands of islands, is t…

Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing
Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing

A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the question South Korea’s top economic policymaker put to the public this week. Kim Yong-beom, who heads policy planning in the …

Anthropic’s Fable 5 Puts AI On The Bargaining Table

As Anthropic reportedly targets a $1 trillion IPO, it is facing intense public scrutiny over safety concerns of Claude Fable 5.