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Pull-Forward Demand Boosts PC Shipments Amid Memory Crunch Woes The latest snapshot of the global PC market, from International Data Corporation's first-quarter shipment tracker, shows units rising 2.5% year over year to 65.6 million. "Despite deteriorating macroeconomic conditions and memory shortage issues, the PC market recorded another quarter of positive growth," IDC wrote in the report published on Thursday morning. IDC said last quarter's growth was "mostly fueled by the anticipation of rising component prices, Windows 10 migration, and new product introductions." Jean Philippe Bouchard, research vice president at IDC, noted, "The...

Watch: Aerial Drone Airlifts Kamikaze Ground Bot Into Battle As Warfare Automation Accelerates The evolution of autonomous warfare will center on teams of FPV drones, unmanned aircraft, and ground robots operating across a single network. Our view is that the battlefield of the 2030s has already been pulled forward by conflicts across Eurasia, from the Russia-Ukraine war to the US-Iran conflict. It was only a matter of time before Ukrainian forces paired heavy UAVs with unmanned ground vehicles to conduct offensive missions deep inside no-man's-land, where the majority of deaths...

Continuing the escalation of Israeli military operations against southwest Syria, the IDF attacked a group of civilians in the village of Jamla, in the Daraa Governorate, opening fire on the group for seemingly no apparent reason. Two children were reported wounded in the attack. Neither Syria nor Israel has yet issued a statement on the […]