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The EUV Device that Enables Advanced Nvidia, Samsung and Intel Chips
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IBM's New Loon Chip Targets Useful Quantum Computing
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AI Music Indistinguishable from Real Thing for 97%
A survey of 9,000 across eight nations shows AI music to be practically indistinguishable from human-created compositions.
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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
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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.
This Man Wants to Put a Nuclear Reactor in Your Backyard
Yasir Arafat's Aalo microreactor may solve the energy problem while preserving a green and safe planet.
Robots Could Be Coming to Your Home in 2026
Humanoid robots are moving from the prototype era to real-world use and 2026 is looking to be the beginning of a world where humans and ...
The US Owes a Strategic Future Tech Industry to Asian Immigrants
Synthetic Biology, the most transformative of future industries, was built from the ground up by immigrant innovations.
Quantum Computing Is the Next Great Disruptor
From simulating complex cancer-fighting molecules to threatening global encryption, the quantum era is arriving faster than the AI revolution.
10 Most Significant Synthetic DNA Advances of 2025
This year's milestones in synthetic biology have been, if not miracles, certainly the makings of miraculous advances to come shortly in medicine and bio-engineering.
Hyundai's Boston Dynamics to Debut New Atlas Humanoid Robot
Using electric motors instead of hydraulics allows the new Atlas to be more dexterous, stronger and able to operate outside the assembly-line context.
A Pill to Extend Your Dog's Healthspan
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Commercial Fusion Power Faces 3 More Epic Tech Hurdles
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Google Challenges Nvidia by Adjusting Its TPUs to Meta's PyTorch
Google's TorchTPU initiative seeks to make its TPU chipsets a more universally accessible rival to Nvidia GPUs.
AI's Jagged Edge Gives Grief to Early Business Adopters
Optimistic businesses that adopted AI to meet labor-intensive needs have struggled with a technology that can do many wonderful things but often fail at trivial ...
Federal Government to Hire 1,000 AI Engineers
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Nvidia Defends Open Source AI LLM Turf with Nemotron Nano
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Home Brain Stimulator for Depression Approved by FDA
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How to Raise Venture Capital For Your Tech Startup
Raising venture funding to ramp up your idea is all about showing yourself to be someone who has done the homework to understand the scale ...
Taikonauts Install Debris Shields on Tiangong
After the windshield of the Shenzhou-21 was cracked by debris and deemed unsafe to carry taikonauts back to earth, a team conducted a space walk ...
Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses a Hit but Face Privacy Concerns
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How Nvidia's H200 Stacks Up Against Chinese AI Chips and Blackwell
The decision to allow H200 chips to be exported to China would significantly improve its AI capabilities but not nearly as much as Nvidia's Blackwell ...
Google Joins Newest Race to Power AI from Space
Skyrocketing AI data-center energy demands drive Google’s radical orbital data center project which aims to tap the sun directly to access “one hundred trillion times ...
20 Most Credible UFO Sightings of 2025 in S. Korea
The large number of credible sightings in a country the size of Indiana suggests that S. Korea is a hotbed of UFO activity.
The Future of Walking Begins With Dephy
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Invisibility? X-Ray Vision? Coming Soon
Metamaterials are turning science fiction superpowers into practical real-world capabilities.
The 3 Big Advances Likely to Precede Quantum Computing Rollout
We're likely to see three technologies that will dramatically advance computing and lay the technological groundwork for producing and implementing practical quantum computing.
Alibaba's Quark AI Glasses to Take on Apple, Meta Globally
The Chinese e-commerce and payment processing giant has positioned the glasses as a life assistant with plans to compete against offerings from Apple, Meta and ...
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New Menlo Micro Switching Chips Speed Up Nvidia Testing
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Will Quantum Computing Obsolete Chipmaking?
State-of-the-art chipmaking that begins with ASML lithography and proceeds to the intricate process technologies developed by TSMC, Samsung and Intel will continue being essential in ...
The EUV Device that Enables Advanced Nvidia, Samsung and Intel Chips
It took almost 40 years for ASML, a Dutch company once partly owned by Intel, TSMC and Samsung, to become the ultimate gatekeeper for cutting-edge ...
Humanity's Biggest Toy Throws Off Knowledge, Technologies
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest, costliest science experiment but the investment has produced an abundance of scientific advances and technologies since operations ...
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Progress in its intricate error-correction technology lets IBM project 2029 for achieving commercially useful quantum computing with the new Loon chip.
AI Music Indistinguishable from Real Thing for 97%
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