TikTok is rolling out a £3.99 ad-free subscription in the UK, giving adults a paid option while keeping its free ad-supported feed in place.

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Alphabet is closing in on Nvidia’s market value as Google Cloud growth, AI investments, and custom chips fuel Wall Street optimism.

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OpenNOW is quickly gaining popularity as a quality GeForce Now app alternative, all thanks to its open-source nature. It still has some limitations compared to the official software, but it's on the right path ... assuming NVIDIA's legal team doesn't get involved.

Early tests of NVIDIA's new DLSS 4.5 features, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (MFG) and MFG 6X, have shown positive results. It certainly seems like AI-assisted software is the new GPU frontier, and one day that won't be controversial.

There is a moment, the architects at Snøhetta will tell you, when you step off the train at Qasr AlHokm and look up, and the entire city of Riyadh looks back at you. That is not a metaphor. It is exactly what happens beneath the station’s sweeping, mirror-polished stainless steel canopy, where a 360-degree reflection of the surrounding cityscape floats above commuters like a living panorama. It is disorienting in the best possible way, and entirely intentional.

Completed in 2025, the Qasr AlHokm Metro Station is one of four primary hubs within Riyadh’s expansive new metro network, a system now carrying up to 3.6 million passengers daily since it entered full operation in January 2025. The station sits in the heart of the historic Al Qiri district, adjacent to an Eid prayer field and a mosque, and within walking distance of the old palace grounds, a location that demanded both architectural sensitivity and civic ambition.

Designer: Snøhetta

Snøhetta, working in collaboration with One Works and Cremonesi Workshop (Crew), first won the competition brief in 2012. The central concept remained remarkably consistent from that early vision: a transit station designed as an open urban plaza, where the threshold between city and subway is dissolved rather than defined. The bowl-shaped canopy, its underside ground to a flawless mirror finish, acts as what the team describes as an urban periscope. From above ground, the city is reflected downward into the station. From below, the underground world is projected back out. “Likewise, if you’re coming from the city, you look up into the canopy, and it mirrors everything that happens below,” explained Snøhetta partner Robert Greenwood.

Sloped terrazzo floors draw visitors naturally under the canopy and into the station’s layered interior. There, a truncated cone-shaped atrium wall, its surface perforated by triangular openings drawn from the regional Najdi architectural tradition, encloses one of the station’s most unexpected gestures: a lush underground garden. In a city defined by heat and aridity, this green pocket offers genuine respite. Indigenous tree planting, natural ventilation, and photovoltaic panels complete a sustainability framework that goes well beyond a token gesture.

The building has not gone unrecognized. In November 2025, the Prix Versailles, presented under the patronage of UNESCO and the International Chamber of Commerce, named Qasr AlHokm one of the seven most beautiful train stations in the world, placing it alongside some of global architecture’s most celebrated transit spaces. What Snøhetta has built here is more than a station. It is a civic room, a place where infrastructure earns the right to be called architecture.

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Developers at Ubisoft and Capcom reportedly learned about Nvidia’s DLSS 5 at the same time as the public, raising questions about developer control and AI use.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responds to backlash surrounding DLSS 5, dismissing criticism while defending the company’s use of AI-driven neural rendering and developer control over visuals.

NVIDIA's time at GDC 2026 has largely been about showing off upgrades to current systems and tools, and I must admit I'm excited to see them in action. Here's what you need to know about the next steps for RTX.

NVIDIA is busy unveiling its latest advancements at GDC 2026, and there's a lot of new information regarding its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Here's what's coming down the line this year.

Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs no longer receive Game Ready Driver updates, but that doesn't mean NVIDIA is ignoring them. If you have an older card, I recommend you grab this security update targeting five vulnerabilities.

NVIDIA's new Rubin AI supercomputers have arrived, and they're likely going to need millions of TB of NAND to scale out. Priced into the market or not, SSDs are likely about to become the next big short in 2026.

Another day, another blow dealt by AI. This time, it's a report out of China that NVIDIA plans to cut GeForce RTX GPU production by up to 40% in the first half of 2026.

NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti is an awesome GPU that can handle 4K gaming, and it's now below MSRP at Newegg with Black Friday price protection in place. Problem? The deal ends after today.

It's easy to draw comparisons between the dotcom bubble and crash and the current AI boom that's sucking up billions of dollars of investments. Is there a chance it could pop? Sure, but NVIDIA's CEO doesn't think so.

Nvidia dominates AI with 94% of the GPU market and record revenue, but mounting pressure from Amazon, Google, China’s chip ban, and rising rivals is starting to test its grip.

Huawei recently announced a three-year plan to overtake NVIDIA's AI dominance in China, and that's bad news for the US firm struggling with restrictions.

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has released a statement that finds NVIDIA guilty of anti-trust practices.

NVIDIA's Project G-Assist, an AI gaming assistant, is set to receive its first major update to improve performance and to get it running on a wider range of hardware.

Just a couple of weeks after the US government rescinded the ban on NVIDIA's H20 AI chip sales to China, it was announced that both NVIDIA and AMD will hand over 15% of their revenue from specific AI GPUs in order to receive export licenses.

Just when NVIDIA thought it was in the clear to resume sales of its H20 AI GPUs to China, a new report suggests that Beijing is putting pressure on its major firms to avoid the chips.