Technology News: 17 November 2025 - 18 November 2025

November 19, 2025, 5:50 AM EST. Get ready for big PS5 savings this Black Friday 2025. The piece highlights Walmart as the retailer with the strongest cuts, including the PS5 Digital Edition - Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 bundle at about $500, and rumors of more bundles and up to $100 off on select sets. Past years show deep discounts at Amazon and Target, but Walmart led the pack with disc and digital slim bundles and high savings on games (up to ~50%). Expect early deals and potential sell-outs, so act fast to lock in the lowest prices on the PS5 Pro bundle (Galactic Purple controller) and game discounts as retailers chase the Black Friday windfall.

November 19, 2025, 5:48 AM EST. Coros' Pace 4 is a lightweight running watch that finally sports an AMOLED display, without sacrificing wearability. It adds dual-band GPS, a built-in microphone, and longer battery life, all at a mid-range price that undercuts Garmin. With a 43.4mm case and slim profile (~11.8-13.6mm), it feels unobtrusive on the wrist, a clear upgrade over the Pace 3. The Pace 4 remains no-nonsense: strong accuracy, good features for all levels, and beginner-friendly, yet with enough performance to satisfy serious runners. Availability started on 10 November 2025 at $249 in the US (prices vary overseas).

November 19, 2025, 5:46 AM EST. During a recent earnings call, Zhao Haijun, CEO of SMIC, warned that fears of a memory-chip shortage are prompting customers to hold back orders for other chips. SMIC, China's largest contract chipmaker, says the trend could hit laptops, consumer electronics and automotive applications next year as manufacturers shift capacity toward high-margin AI components. Analysts say bottlenecks stem from chipmakers prioritizing HBM memory used in AI servers, with suppliers like SK Hynix and Micron. The shortage could squeeze cheaper chips for PCs, smartphones and vehicles, raising prices as supply tightens. Samsung has already raised prices for select memory chips. TrendForce notes a robust upward cycle in memory pricing, warning the impact could broaden beyond premium segments, with China feeling the pinch due to reliance on low-cost devices. Demand is expected to rise sharply by 2026.

November 19, 2025, 5:42 AM EST. Once dominated by CPU-only vibes, scientific computing has undergone a dramatic shift: GPUs and accelerated computing have moved upstream, turning HPC into AI-ready infrastructure. The emblematic JUPITER system at Forschungszentrum Jülich demonstrates this shift, delivering remarkable efficiency (63.3 gigaflops per watt) and potent AI performance (116 AI exaflops, up from 92). Across TOP100, CPU-only share collapsed below 15%, with 88 systems accelerated and 80% powered by NVIDIA GPUs. The broader TOP500 now shows 78% using NVIDIA technology, including 218 GPU-accelerated systems. This era hinges on AI FLOPS as the new yardstick, enabled by architectures like NVIDIA Hopper, Blackwell, and the CUDA-X platform, delivering scalable, energy-efficient science from climate modeling to quantum simulation.

November 19, 2025, 5:38 AM EST. This piece traces why clients fall for AI chatbots as perfect listeners, echoing centuries of psychotherapy. It frames the AI relationship through transference-the Freudian pull to cast a trusted figure as the ideal partner. From Winnicott's good-enough mother to today's research (Bateman & Fonagy, 2006; Luyten et al., 2024; Heien, 2024), therapy teaches us to balance fantasy with reality. The article argues that AI can mirror the therapist's early function-patient, attentive, reflective-yet warns that the lack of human limits demands deliberate intervention. It calls clinicians to acknowledge and negotiate this dream hostage negotiation rather than treat AI as a final answer.