Daily Tech News 10 March 2025

• Nvidia's next GPU to launch will be the RTX 5060 Ti and it maybe - just maybe - might not suck. (WCCFTech)
  
  The 4060 Ti had a 128-bit memory bus, leaving you with the choice of an 8GB model which didn't have enough memory, and a 16GB model which had more than the card's performance warranted, and which cost too much.
  
  The 5060 Ti has a 128-bit memory bus again, and 8GB and 16GB models, but with GDDR7 the memory runs 33% faster. So if the price is right it could be a decent entry point for the new range.
  
  If the card is available. And bits don't fall off.
  
  So probably not, on reflection.

• The founders of Digg and Reddit have teamed up to bring back Digg. (CNBC)
  
  Digg died - and Reddit's fortunes soared - when the former site launched a universally unpopular redesign back in whenever it was.
  
  Now Reddit is best known as a sort of social club for the criminally insane, with fewer parts of it tolerating normal humans every day, leaving the door wide open for anyone to pick up 80% of the market.
  
  
  
• Can ants teach us how to build self-driving cars? (Scientific America)
  
  We asked three leading ants and they said... Well, nothing, really.
  
  
  
• The Compal Infinite laptop is a 14" model with an 18" display. (Liliputing)
  
  You open it up as normal and then you stretch the screen to suit.
  
  Somehow. There are no details at all as to how the trick works.
  
  
  
• Massive Dynamic - sorry, Colossal Biosciences - CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a moral obligation to pursue de-extinction. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Which by strange coincidence is what his company - now valued at over $10 billion - is selling.

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