Fox on Games takes an insider look at all the new features of the soon-to-be-released Switch 2. New York City – In a bustling event on 5th Avenue that drew over 100 journalists, content creators, and industry insiders, Nintendo made waves by unveiling the much-anticipated Switch 2. The console is set to redefine gaming experiences worldwide, and Fox was there to capture the excitement. The Switch 2 is priced at 450 for the console alone, with an option to purchase a bundled package at 500, which includes the new racer "pack-in" game, Mario Kart World. Nintendo has listened to feedback from the initial Switch release and introduced significant upgrades to the Switch 2's hardware. The Joy-Con controllers now connect via magnets, eliminating the traditional track system. Enhanced with a gyroscope and a new mouse mechanic, players can simulate movement with precision, akin to rolling a ball across the floor.

Chipmaker Nvidia says it plans to build artificial intelligence servers worth as much as 500bn in the United States over the next four years with help from partners such as TSMC. Nvidia is the latest US tech firm to back a push by President Donald Trump's administration for local manufacturing. Monday's announcement includes the production of its Blackwell AI chips at TSMC's factory in Phoenix, Arizona, and supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas by Foxconn and Wistron, which are expected to ramp up in 12 to 15 months. "Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and boosts our resiliency," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said. "Manufacturing AI chips and supercomputers in the US will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the coming decades," Nvidia said in a statement.

Meta plans to start using data collected from its users in the European Union to train its AI systems, the company announced today. Starting this week, the tech giant will begin notifying Europeans through email and its family of apps of the fact, with the message set to include an explanation of the kind of data it plans to use as part of the training. Additionally, the notification will link out to a form users can complete to opt out of the process. "We have made this objection form easy to find, read, and use, and we'll honor all objection forms we have already received, as well as newly submitted ones," says Meta. The company notes it will only use data it collects from public posts and Meta AI interactions for training purposes.

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up efforts to fend off increasingly stiff competition from companies like Google and Anthropic. The models are available to developers through OpenAI's application programming interface (API). OpenAI is releasing three sizes of models: GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 Mini, and GPT 4.1 Nano. Kevin Weil, chief product officer at OpenAI, said on a livestream that the new models are better than OpenAI's most widely used model, GPT-4o, and better than its largest and most powerful model, GPT-4.5, in some ways. GPT-4.1 scored 55 percent on SWE-Bench, a widely used benchmark for gauging the prowess of coding models.

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased that he was dropping a new feature. Paired with reports and spottings of new model art, many speculated it was the long-awaited release of the GPT-4.1 model. It turned out to be a massive ChatGPT update that introduced new memory capabilities -- but now, OpenAI's new family of models has finally arrived. On Monday via a livestream, OpenAI unveiled a new family of models: GPT-4.1, According to OpenAI, the family of models offers improvements in coding, instruction-following, and long-context understanding, and outperforms GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini "across the board."

SAVE 35: As of April 14, get the Amazon Echo for just 64.99. We always have our eyes on Echo devices, the ultra popular smart home device that answer to your beck and call. Plus, with the recently rolled out Alexa, Echo devices are more capable than ever, able to execute tasks like making a dinner reservation or holding a conversation. As of April 14, the Amazon Echo is seeing its first discount of 2025. Now down to 64.99, that saves you 35 off its usual 99.99.

Age: Founded in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. How futuristic – and they've been working on this since 2009? Actually, it goes back to 2004 and a prototype autonomous car built by Stanford University. The Google project became known as Waymo in 2016. Any idea how many more years until we see the first self-driving taxis? They already have them in San Francisco, LA and Phoenix, among other places.

I have to admit, heading out to London for 2025 KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe, I thought I might see the beginning of the downward trend for the event about building, deploying, and managing next-generation cloud applications and infrastructures. After all, the show turned 10 last year, and, in my experience, that's when conferences start to show their age. Plus, there has been lots of news around the effect of AI on application development, and while KubeCon isn't directly about dev, much of its focus is on applications and services. But boy, was I wrong. In fact, KubeCon 2025 in London was packed, with over 12,000 attendees.

Do our spirits live on after death? For most people, the question doesn't seem to require much soul-searching. A colossal 83 per cent of adults in the US believe that human souls exist, according to a 2023 survey by the Pew Research Centre. Many religions believe that, when we die, our immortal souls survive or are reincarnated. While there has never been a scientific consensus, the debate is ongoing.

Have you ever wanted to build your own custom application but didn't want to take the time to do any of the pesky learning that software development requires? If so, a new experimental project from GitHub might just make your dreams come true. GitHub Spark lets you build what the company calls "micro apps" or "sparks." These are very limited custom applications that perform one or two basic tasks. You create them through a chatbot interface, and when you're done, you get a spark you can (someday) share with all your friends.