Technology News for Tuesday 4th March 2025

1. [MWC 2025] Explore AI-Powered Innovation in Mobile, Health, Home and Networks With Samsung

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 officially opened in Barcelona on March 3, bringing together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts at the world's largest mobile technology exhibition. Samsung Electronics stole the spotlight with dynamic ...

2. [MWC 2025] The True AI Companion: New Ways To Get Things Done, Create and Play With the Galaxy S25 Series

Samsung Newsroom stepped inside the booth to witness Samsung's vision for a smarter, more intuitive smartphone experience come to life in Barcelona. ? Samsung Electronics at Mobile World Congress 2025 ...

3. Google Updates Unbeatable Pixel—Samsung Must Catch Up Fast

Here we go again. Google's Android's security update for March warns that more vulnerabilities are under attack. As ever there's little information, but that shouldn't matter — what does is that you update your phone as soon as you can.

4. Google's Chrome Update Blocks Popular Ad Blockers, Including uBlock Origin

This comes with the search giant moving to a new extension framework, Manifest V3. The update is being rolled out to improve security and privacy, but it has also removed key functionalities that ad blockers rely on.

5. Share your memories of Skype

After two decades, the internet calling service Skype will be shut down by Microsoft in May. The tech giant says it will focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings. With the service ...

6. Smartphone startup Nothing tries to stir market out of 'sea of sameness' with $400 phone

Consumer technology startup Nothing on Tuesday launched its new Phone (3a) smartphone. It has an unusual design, featuring different shapes and so-called "Glyph" lights on the back that light up to preset ringtones and notification sound effects.

7. AIs are mimics not semantic beings

What they need, so say philosophers and other cognitive scientists, are semantic representations. A semantic representation links words together in terms of their content not their rate of co-occurrence. The content of a ...

8. Samsung to launch its Apple Vision Pro rival headset this year

Samsung will launch its extended reality headset this year, a spokesperson for the company told CNBC on Tuesday. The device, dubbed Project Moohan, is Samsung's answer to Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro, which was launched last year.

9. Nothing Phone 3a Pro Brings A 3x Periscope Camera At $459

I wasn't a fan when I saw the pictures, but that changed once I used it. While the Phone 3a takes a more “conventional” Nothing look, the Phone 3a Pro adds a much-needed camera bump with a 3x periscope lens. It's the company's most ambitious phone yet, and ...

10. Strands celebrates its first birthday with an anniversary puzzle

After a year filled with mind-bending Spangrams and deviously clever clues, editor Tracy Bennett has crafted a special Strands puzzle in honor of the game's anniversary. The puzzle will debut today, March 4, 2025, in the New York Times Games app and ...

11. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 4 release date revealed

There have been signs and portents, but now things are official: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is real and has a release date, targeting a launch on July 11, 2025. The game will be available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo ...

12. Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a 'Woolly Mouse'

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere thousands of years ago, during the last ice age. But for now, as a step along the way, the company has come up with ...

13. Split Fiction game review: A fantastic co-op combination

Video games are too solitary a hobby. While gaming is much more social now than ever, with games often being used more as digital social spaces than competitive environments, it's been impossible to shake the image of the lone gamer in their bedroom ...

14. Capcom's New Monster Hunter Wilds Roars Past 8 Million Units Sold with Ferocious Speed!

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capcom Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:9697) today announced that worldwide sales of Monster Hunter Wilds, released on February 28, 2025, surpassed 8 million units in 3 days, which is the fastest a title has reached this milestone in ...