A teenage Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It broke me.

Justin Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as a joke.

‘Neural texture compression’ might save gamers in a RAM-starved world

Intel and Nvidia show off how textures -- which take up a large chunk of PC games -- could be compressed to save you money ...
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Nvidia, Intel Texture Compression Techs Cut VRAM Use Dramatically

Intel and Nvidia showed off their respective AI-powered texture-compression technologies over the weekend, demonstrating ...
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Minecraft Bedrock with an RTX 3080 Ti

Minecraft Bedrock with an rtx 3080 TI. Today I'll be playing Minecraft Bedrock Edition with an rtx 3080 TI! This gpu was so ...
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The 10 best Minecraft shaders 2026

The best Minecraft shaders will make you feel like you're playing a whole new game. Kind of. At least it'll make things look spectacularly different with some very colorful and exciting options. There ...
Education Week

Are Teens Just Using AI to Cheat? Well, Not Quite (If You Ask Them)

There’s fear among many educators that most students are now using AI to do too much of their schoolwork and most of their critical thinking. A new nationally representative survey of 13- to ...
techworm.net

Minecraft: Java Edition To Replace OpenGL With Vulkan

After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...
STAT

Sometimes, it would be unethical not to use AI in medicine

Shah is a master’s of precision health student at the University of Chicago. Bhatt is the chief innovation officer of the American College of Cardiology and inaugural chair of the FDA Digital Health ...
Game Rant

Minecraft Gives Update on Vibrant Visuals for Java Edition

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...
Neowin

Minecraft Java Edition is upgrading to Vulkan, but it's not great news for mods

Mojang warned that many popular mods will be affected by this change and wants to help mod authors port over their work. It has been nine years since OpenGL stopped receiving updates, and Minecraft ...
The Motley Fool

Prediction: This 1 Thing Will Make Nvidia the Biggest Winner of the AI Race. (Hint: It's Not the GPU.)

Nvidia has seen revenue and its stock price soar in recent years thanks to its AI leadership. The company is the designer of the world’s top graphics processing units -- but it hasn’t stopped there.
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Minecraft goes from game to learning experience in NYC classrooms

JAMAICA, Queens (PIX11) — Some NYC Public School students are designing their own visions for the city inside a popular video game. At Thomas Edison High School in Jamaica, Queens, students are using ...