Tech & Toys
How Far Behind Is China in the AI Race?
The big hurdle for China is production inefficiency from being unable to access Dutch chipmaking equipment.
'Ghost Murmur' Used to Locate Downed Airman Was Trump's Bogus Reference to an Actual Technology
The apparent reference was to the quantum magnetometer, medical technology used to detect faint heartbeat anomalies.
Alexander Wang's Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases First AI Model
Muse Spark is the product of a series of rapid billion-dollar acquisitions Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg and is said to be exceptionally compact but ...
Nvidia's Buy of Main Supercomputer Software Raises AI Chip Neutrality Concerns
SchedMD, which owns Slurm, the leading open-source software for supercomputers, would let Nvidia produce software updates favoring its own chips over those of rival chipmakers ...
China's Open-Source AI Dominates Global Downloads, Threatens US Leadership
Lower cost and ease of customization of parameters make AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot and MiniMax more popular globally than models from OpenAI and ...
Xiaomi's Lei Jun Quadruples AI Budget to $8.7 Billion As MiMo-V2-Pro Excites Developers
The new agentic AI model developed by Xiaomi's youthful female-led research team, and recently released anonymously, has already racked up 1.5 trillion tokens and rave ...
Nvidia-Backed Nuro Begins Tokyo Test of Human-Like Zero-Shot Autonomy Vehicles
Unlike Tesla and Waymo the Nuro self-driving vehicles use an autonomy stack that doesn't depend on location-specific street maps.
Air Optics Revamps Fiber Optics for Faster, Cooler Data Transmission
Glass tubes will not only surpass glass fiber in transmitting data faster and more cheaply, but also make quantum communications more reliable.
Who Will Win the Race to Land a Crew on the Moon?
The complexity inherent in SpaceX's grand ambition to do the job using fully reusable vehicles creates room for delays that make this a true horse ...
Why the Silicon Chip Was Most Likely Inspired by UFO Debris
Within months of the July 1947 Roswell UFO crash the transistor emerged and evolved quickly into microchips, supporting insider accounts of alien inspiration for human ...
When Will Photonics Supersede Silicon?
Photonics' promise as the speed- and energy-efficient alternative to silicon chips is being fulfilled in increments, starting with specialized applications.
ASML Keeps Lock on EUV Lithography for AI Chip Boom
The Dutch maker of the world's only EUV chip printing machines is riding high on the boom created by AI leader Nvidia.
The Korean American Engineer Who Enabled the Microprocessor
Dawon Kahng figured out how to make transistors scalable and power-efficient enough to be packed into today's microprocessors by the billions.
Microsoft Maia 200 Joins Wave of Competition for Nvidia's AI Chips
The Maia 200 will join AI chips from Google and Amazon as potential alternatives in a segment in which Nvidia is likely to retain its ...
2 Asian Immigrants Were Behind "Alien" Fiber Optics Technology
The pioneering work of Narinder Singh Kapany and Charles Kao laid the groundwork for fiber optics technology which some believe was reverse-engineered from a UFO ...
UK Crewless Helicopter to Patrol Seas, Hunt Submarines
The Royal Navy's first full-sized autonomous helicopter will carry out missions that would be physically taxing and potentially dangerous for human crews.
SiFive to Adopt Nvidia's NVLink for Fast CPU-Nvidia GPU Link
SiFive will be the first maker of RISC-V chip designs to integrate its chip blueprints with Nvidia's AI GPUs.
How Far Behind Is China in the AI Race?
The big hurdle for China is production inefficiency from being unable to access Dutch chipmaking equipment.
'Ghost Murmur' Used to Locate Downed Airman Was Trump's Bogus Reference to an Actual Technology
The apparent reference was to the quantum magnetometer, medical technology used to detect faint heartbeat anomalies.
Alexander Wang's Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases First AI Model
Muse Spark is the product of a series of rapid billion-dollar acquisitions Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg and is said to be exceptionally compact but ...
Nvidia's Buy of Main Supercomputer Software Raises AI Chip Neutrality Concerns
SchedMD, which owns Slurm, the leading open-source software for supercomputers, would let Nvidia produce software updates favoring its own chips over those of rival chipmakers ...
China's Open-Source AI Dominates Global Downloads, Threatens US Leadership
Lower cost and ease of customization of parameters make AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot and MiniMax more popular globally than models from OpenAI and ...
Xiaomi's Lei Jun Quadruples AI Budget to $8.7 Billion As MiMo-V2-Pro Excites Developers
The new agentic AI model developed by Xiaomi's youthful female-led research team, and recently released anonymously, has already racked up 1.5 trillion tokens and rave ...
Nvidia-Backed Nuro Begins Tokyo Test of Human-Like Zero-Shot Autonomy Vehicles
Unlike Tesla and Waymo the Nuro self-driving vehicles use an autonomy stack that doesn't depend on location-specific street maps.
Air Optics Revamps Fiber Optics for Faster, Cooler Data Transmission
Glass tubes will not only surpass glass fiber in transmitting data faster and more cheaply, but also make quantum communications more reliable.
Who Will Win the Race to Land a Crew on the Moon?
The complexity inherent in SpaceX's grand ambition to do the job using fully reusable vehicles creates room for delays that make this a true horse ...
Why the Silicon Chip Was Most Likely Inspired by UFO Debris
Within months of the July 1947 Roswell UFO crash the transistor emerged and evolved quickly into microchips, supporting insider accounts of alien inspiration for human ...
When Will Photonics Supersede Silicon?
Photonics' promise as the speed- and energy-efficient alternative to silicon chips is being fulfilled in increments, starting with specialized applications.
ASML Keeps Lock on EUV Lithography for AI Chip Boom
The Dutch maker of the world's only EUV chip printing machines is riding high on the boom created by AI leader Nvidia.
The Korean American Engineer Who Enabled the Microprocessor
Dawon Kahng figured out how to make transistors scalable and power-efficient enough to be packed into today's microprocessors by the billions.
Microsoft Maia 200 Joins Wave of Competition for Nvidia's AI Chips
The Maia 200 will join AI chips from Google and Amazon as potential alternatives in a segment in which Nvidia is likely to retain its ...
2 Asian Immigrants Were Behind "Alien" Fiber Optics Technology
The pioneering work of Narinder Singh Kapany and Charles Kao laid the groundwork for fiber optics technology which some believe was reverse-engineered from a UFO ...
UK Crewless Helicopter to Patrol Seas, Hunt Submarines
The Royal Navy's first full-sized autonomous helicopter will carry out missions that would be physically taxing and potentially dangerous for human crews.
SiFive to Adopt Nvidia's NVLink for Fast CPU-Nvidia GPU Link
SiFive will be the first maker of RISC-V chip designs to integrate its chip blueprints with Nvidia's AI GPUs.
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