Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for $500 million to revive its operations The purchase price reflects a steep drop from Eventbrite’s 2018 IPO Eventbrite stockholders receive $4.50 per share, an 81% premium immediately Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Eventbrite for approximately $500 million, marking another addition to its portfolio of well-known but stalled software companies….

Erbium molecular qubits provide precise optical and spin transitions for quantum control These qubits enable spin states to be accessed through telecom-compatible light High-resolution spin-photon interfaces could support scalable quantum network development Scientists have created an erbium-based molecular qubit that offers a way to interface quantum systems with existing fiber networks. These qubits combine precise…

AWS Graviton5 launches at re:Invent 2025 New CPU offers huge advances in efficiency and performance New Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances show off the potential Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled its next big hardware advance with the launch of the AWS Graviton5 CPU. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2025 and aimed at tackling demanding workloads from…

The Mobile Eccentric Droid is going into production It is designed to operate indoors and on rugged outdoor terrain Hyundai promises automotive-grade engineering No, this isn’t the star of Disney’s latest animated movie – Hyundai has announced a fully-autonomous robotic platform that can be engineered for pretty much any use case, and it could be…

Rust on arm64 completed CPU-intensive tasks up to 5x faster than x86 Arm64 reduces cold start latency across all run times by up to 24% Python 3.11 on arm64 outperforms newer versions in memory-heavy workloads Benchmarking of AWS Lambda this year shows that arm64 architecture consistently outperforms x86 across most workloads. Tests covered CPU-intensive, memory-intensive,…

YouTube will comply with Australia’s new social media ban for under-16s The new law requires parental consent for teen users Privacy concerns are growing over age verification methods YouTube has confirmed it will comply with Australia’s controversial new social media ban, which will require the platform to prevent users under the age of 16 from…

It’s mile 22, the point in a marathon where my legs feel like concrete, my brain is foggy, and every part of my body is telling me to stop. Around me, the crowd noise blurs into white static as I hit the dreaded wall — the point in the race when your body starts to…

While the biggest sales period of the year is over, PlayStation Plus members can still get some superb prices on gear and gifts at PS Direct UK right now due to an extra 5% discount being offered to subscribers. • Shop all of PlayStation Direct’s sale Yup, on top of Sony’s already great winter sales…

The FIFA World Cup 2026 is just around the corner, and with the upcoming draw for the world’s biggest sporting event on the horizon, soccer’s governing body, FIFA, is ruffling some feathers. The controversial World Cup, hosted in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, in a tumultuous political landscape has already been criticized for pricing out…

The Holiday season will soon be upon us, and you might already be thinking about Christmas gifts for yourself or the gamers in your life. To that end, you probably won’t want to pass up Amazon’s excellent Xbox Wireless Controller deals where you can currently save up to 43%. • Shop Amazon’s full Holiday sale…